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EMI loses case to Usenet provider

article published on 15 January, 2008

The German Usenet provider United Newsserver has won an appeal in a suit that was initiated by EMI. The large record label had wanted to block access to music on the provider through an injunction but a German court has found that the company is not legally repsonsible for the misdeeds of Usenet users. In May 2007, the court sided with EMI and the IFPI was quick to praise the decision. ... [ read the full article ]

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mediabob
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_ 		15. January 2008 @ 23:19 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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hikaricor
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_ 		15. January 2008 @ 23:33 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
You think this is going to stop the stupidity of lawyers? HAH

They'll just find some other snake-assed way of fucking with newsgroups.
These are the same kind of people who are trying to tell us that ripping CDs we own for personal use is not legal.
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_ 		16. January 2008 @ 01:27 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by hikaricor:
 You think this is going to stop the stupidity of lawyers? HAH

They'll just find some other snake-assed way of messing with newsgroups.
These are the same kind of people who are trying to tell us that ripping CDs we own for personal use is not legal.
It's so true. I'm glad the newsgroups won. IRC and newsgroups are practically the only safe havens anymore. And even then, they aren't that safe.
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_ 		16. January 2008 @ 17:14 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
...and until they come crashing through the door, usenet is still king for all media types. We need more companies standing up to these kinds of attacks even if it is to protect their own interests in the bottom line, make them "go fish" for another way...
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_ 		17. January 2008 @ 02:33 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
well newsgroups are not that diffrent than torrents sooner or later the media mafia will break thier knees :P
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_ 		15. February 2008 @ 16:51 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
There will be a loop hole that will be found and this issue will keep going.
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_ 		15. February 2008 @ 17:01 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by ZippyDSM:
 well newsgroups are not that diffrent than torrents sooner or later the media mafia will break thier knees :P
Maybe so, but the good news is that Usenet is a harder target to go after. It's basically an Internet in it's own right, with servers dotted all over the world. You could take one or two down, but people would just go elsewhere instead. Another thing to note is that it's not P2P. It only takes one person to post an article. Also, thanks to propagation, what is on one server generally filters out to them all sooner or later.

No I think that Usenet will survive for a while yet... At least until the next big thing comes along.
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My opinions come with no warranty whatsoever, but are totally open-source, so you can reverse engineer or decompile them as you see fit. All other rights reserved.

"Freedom" in the west consists of: Freedom of speech, freedom of opinion and freedom of movement. So why is it then, that people want to know what youre saying, what you think of them and where you are going?

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varnull
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Nice double standards in operation here from what I can see.. On one hand the German courts uphold that obtaining pirate content from PAID newsgroup accounts is fine, while at the same time deciding that a p2p tracker run from Switzerland and free to all is breaking the law..
It's the same issue.. a tracker is also not responsible for the actions of 1 person.

So it's ok to get hold of pirate material if YOU PAY a third party to access it? I think the judges are scared that if newsgroup servers are raided their downloading of child porn will come out.
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I guess they see the BT Tracker services as more of a threat, since they are free to start with. The justification for that train of thought would be that if a person is wanting to obtain material without paying for it, then he/she is hardly likely to go out and spend 10 to 20 dollars a month to do the same thing.
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