Comments on: RIAA now targeting Usenet: The party’s over?

By: ChuckBlack

ChuckBlack — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:28:57 +0000

Yes!
Fight Club rules apply!

By: skylights

skylights — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:41:06 +0000

James Edwards: Actually, God doesn’t exist. But as everyone knows, Hulk Rules!!!

By: James Edwards

James Edwards — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 02:33:19 +0000

God is the best…The Hulk is nothing…Blasphemy against the Lord will be repaid with Hell for eternity…Go repent and live your life right…Read Exodus 20…God bless you…

As for the RIAA…they suck…i cant stand them…i have used Limewire and Bearshare…it is also possible to download youtube music videos and to convert the flv file to an mp4 file…then u extract the audio and save it as an mp3…it may take longer, but it is better than being sued by the RIAA…also you can use http://www.cr3.mobi because it is like a giant media search engine…down with the RIAA’s stupid cases…why cant they just get rid of Limewire…and even Bearshare…But see, Bearshare uses DRM in its music files…so get a music converter compatible with DRM files and convert them to mp3…

BTW: Frostwire is just a remake of limewire…it took the source to Lmewire and rewrote a small part of it and released a “new” product…

God bless all of you…and please dont start with the feds…its not a good thing…

By: WHAT?

WHAT? — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 13:46:06 +0000

My bearshare isn\t working on any of my computers? Any ideas? This started about 3 days ago.

By: Chris Sparks

Chris Sparks — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:27:56 +0000

Nice to see you guys have no problems with stealing artwork from other sites
and completely out of context as well.

http://www.usenetpedia.com/usenet-dead..html

By: Ted

Ted — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 12:48:47 +0000

Headline: “RIAA Sues Itself” How’s that, you say? Well, it’s a fact that Time-Warner Internet providers carry binary newsgroups, including the dreaded mp3 groups. And Time-Warner is also one of the world’s largest music companies and a RIAA member. So, when they get around to suing all the newsgroup providers, they’ll see themselves in court. Funny how things work these days in the corporate world, ain’t it?

By: Cosmic

Cosmic — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:29:36 +0000

It’s not that surprising. If you have time for a longer read, take a look at Eben Moglen’s argument that what the RIAA asked for in the Grokster case was actually to shut down the internet in general: http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/grokster-amicus.pdf.

By: John Eddy

John Eddy — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 02:06:51 +0000

Heh. Death of Usenet. Wasn’t that first reported back in, oh, 1993?

Oh, and major negative points for not titling the post “Imminent death of Usenet predicted, GIF at 11:00″ =)

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:05:06 +0000

@ Andrew

Oh I know the rule. I’m sorry to have broken it just now, but some things can’t be avoided.

I’ll never speak of it again.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:57:30 +0000

There is no shortage of providers and most of them operate well outside the legal reach of the Luddites at the RIAA. I can’t see this affecting much for quite a while.

and shhh.. the first rule of usenet is to not talk ab…..

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:21:07 +0000

It’s been a while since I’ve even looked at anything posted to a usenet board. I had always suspected that RIAA would go after the usenet after it was done with KaZaa et al. I think you’re right, they’ll likely go after the providers for client lists, etc rather than attempt to target individual users – though they may go after a few token popular posters in some boards. It’s so easy to disguise where you’re posting from, RIAA will probably have a hard time.

It’s a shame, though. I always liked usenet and was actually thinking about reactivating my giganews account and getting nbpro again. Can’t a guy get something for nothing anymore?