Sat, 25 Feb 2006

Are Usenet fans vulnerable to copyright lawsuits?

The Web couldn't kill it, SPAM couldn't kill, even ignorance of it by the vast majority of today's netizens hasn't made it go away. But now the lawyers are going to give it a shot, and I fear for the future of the oldest operating network service...

Newsgroups predate P2P by 20 years or so, but they're finally being targeted by Hollywood. Who should worry?

(link) [CNET News.com]

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