Binary newsgroups

[GDT]

If I set up a server full of warez and charged people to download it I'd be busted pretty damn quick.

So how do they get away with it?

(not saying I want usenet servers being hassled but I'm curious about how they dont get grief)

 

[SaltBoy]

Nobody owns usenet.

 

[shuan24]

It seems like its harder to track people down. *shrugs* who knows.

 

[FoBoT]

everybody knows the only way to share files is with p2p software/windows :roll:


ignorance i guess, ftp has been around a really loooong time

 

[Kev]

because the copyright owners can't track the software pirate. only the isp can, and the copyright holder would probably need a subpoena to get that from the isp.

on p2p, however, the copyright holders can view the ip address of the pirate. yar.

 

[PanzerIV]

I've often wondered the same thing. They are very active, though not all in an illegal sense of course.

 

[notfred]

It's because the volume of people who wants to bother to figure out usenet and all the peculiarites assocaited with downlaoding binaries in 17,654 parts is insignificant compared to the volume of users willing to install Kazaa.

 

[GDT]

I know nobody owns usenet but giganews (for example) charges for the use of its servers, which are full of dodgy copies of copyrighted material.

I bet even a really bad soliciter could make a case!

 

[jonMEGA]

http://www.ncsu.edu/copyright/DMCA.html

??§ 512. Limitations on liability relating to material online

??(a) TRANSITORY DIGITAL NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS.?A service provider shall not be liable for monetary relief, or, except as provided in subsection (j), for injunctive or other equitable relief, for infringement of copyright by reason of the provider?s transmitting, routing, or providing connections for, material through a system or network controlled or operated by or for the service provider, or by reason of the intermediate and transient storage of that material in the course of such transmitting, routing, or providing connections, if?

??(1) the transmission of the material was initiated by or at the direction of a person other than the service provider;

??(2) the transmission, routing, provision of connections, or storage is carried out through an automatic technical process without selection of the material by the service provider;

??(3) the service provider does not select the recipients of the material except as an automatic response to the request of another person;

??(4) no copy of the material made by the service provider in the course of such intermediate or transient storage is maintained on the system or network in a manner ordinarily accessible to anyone other than anticipated recipients, and no such copy is maintained on the system or network in a manner ordinarily accessible to such anticipated recipients for a longer period than is reasonably necessary for the transmission, routing, or provision of connections; and

??(5) the material is transmitted through the system or network without modification of its content.

??(b) SYSTEM CACHING.?

??(1) LIMITATION ON LIABILITY.?A service provider shall not be liable for monetary relief, or, except as provided in subsection (j), for injunctive or other equitable relief, for infringement of copyright by reason of the intermediate and temporary storage of material on a system or network controlled or operated by or for the service provider in a case in which?

??(A) the material is made available online by a person other than the service provider,

??(B) the material is transmitted from the person described in subparagraph (A) through the system or network to a person other than the person described in subparagraph (A) at the direction of that other person, and

??(C) the storage is carried out through an automatic technical process for the purpose of making the material available to users of the system or network who, after the material is transmitted as described in subparagraph (B), request access to the material from the person described in subparagraph (A), if the conditions set forth in paragraph (2) are met.

 

Originally posted by: GDT
I know nobody owns usenet but giganews (for example) charges for the use of its servers, which are full of dodgy copies of copyrighted material.

I bet even a really bad soliciter could make a case!

Giganews charges for access to usenet. Usenet is for reading newsgroups. They don't know (nor do they want to know) if you are downloading warez, pr0n, etc...

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: GDT
I know nobody owns usenet but giganews (for example) charges for the use of its servers, which are full of dodgy copies of copyrighted material.

I bet even a really bad soliciter could make a case!

Why not charge your ISP for giving you access to giganews. Or your credit card company for allowing you to purchase time on giganews. :Q

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

As long as I have my alt.binaries.howard-stern, I don't really care how they get away with it!