At 07:52 AM 6/22/2001 -0700, David Honig wrote: >At 08:36 PM 6/21/01 -0500, Jim Choate wrote: > >http://slashdot.org/yro/01/06/22/006203.shtml > > Due to violations of the DMCA (Digital > Millennium Copyright Act) the Usenet newsgroups > listed below are being discontinued from the > Excite@Home news feed. I don't understand how DMCA comes into play for content already ripped by someone else. >Does @Home also filter & grab NNTP requests to servers they >don't control, like some other ISP is filtering & grabbing SMTP? I don't think so, but have never checked. It seems that one ploy the digital video posters could use is to select a popular, innocuous, news group, and add their content. @Home would then be forced to either filter binaries from that group or take it offline, offending a lot of innocent users. steve
