You do realize that Usenet got sued last week by the RIAA? Now the lawsuit was against usenet.com and really can't touch the real usenet but it's not like it will stay a haven forever.
With the new DPI (deep packet inspection) hardware becoming more and more popular multimedia downloads of any size are going to come under increasing suspicion and the ISPs are going to start throttling anything they don't like. Kinda sucks when you can't even use the connection you paid for. -- Brian Weeden On 10/22/07, j maccraw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Usenet is still king over P2P on the "accountability" > side and a good hedge on > the speed side! > > Torrents of any form are asking for trouble IMHO even > if they are legit content > and it's just the ISP throttling your connection. > > Brian Weeden wrote: > > Oops forgot - RIAA is only music. MPAA is movies. > Those are the two > > big ones right now but they are mainly going after > P2P, you know the > > idiots still using Limewire or the like. > > > > On 10/19/07, Brian Weeden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> I don't do movies. Those I rent. TV shows are > pretty much a grey > >> area, at least the networks. HBO and Showtime pay > stuff is illegal. > >> I haven't heard of any cracking down on end users > downloading TV shows > >> except for the pay (HBO/Showtime) stuff. > >> > >> IMHO not a problem, especially if you go through a > proxy or do some tunneling. > >> > >> But it's really only a problem if you are living in > the US and subject > >> to US laws :) > >> > >> On 10/19/07, Winterlight > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> At 02:00 PM 10/19/2007, you wrote: > >>>> Once you go HD yo will never go > back....especially for sports. > >>>> > >>>> That said, I have recently switched all of my TV > viewing to bittorrent > >>>> except for sports. You can find any show you > want. > >>> What with all the law suits do you ever worry > about RIAA? > >>> > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com >
