P2P-Zone - View Single Post - Thoughts on recent lawsuits against usenet indexing sites

Mazer · 12-03-06, 11:17 AM

Well it seems that so far only websites that index NZB files are being sued, not the actual usenet server operators. My guess is that if they did then Google would end up on their list of defendants because of their groups.google.com site. Nobody want's to sue that juggeranut; can you imagine the army of high priced lawyers that Google could conjure. A recent article at ars technica suggests that the tech industry is so much bigger than the entertainment industry that for a meager investment Sillicon Valley could bury Hollywood.

The RIAA and MPAA know this. The only way they'll ever get the tech industry to do their bidding is by lobbying for new laws, because even their legal department isn't big enough to take on the likes of Intel, IBM, and Cisco, the primary suppliers of hardware for usenet sites. However they do have the budget to launch a FUD campaign by suing smaller web site operators, the usenet portals that have made that network so popular recently. I think if we had more insight into their finances we might discover that the RIAA and MPAA spend almost as much money on publicists, spokesmen, and newswire press releases to spin and advertize their lawsuits as they spend filing those lawsuits.

Maybe the reason there isn't much discussion going on here is because of www.p2pconsortium.com, specifically this thread.

12-03-06, 11:17 AM	#2
Mazer Earthbound misfit Join Date: May 2001 Location: Moses Lake, Washington Posts: 2,563	Well it seems that so far only websites that index NZB files are being sued, not the actual usenet server operators. My guess is that if they did then Google would end up on their list of defendants because of their groups.google.com site. Nobody want's to sue that juggeranut; can you imagine the army of high priced lawyers that Google could conjure. A recent article at ars technica suggests that the tech industry is so much bigger than the entertainment industry that for a meager investment Sillicon Valley could bury Hollywood. The RIAA and MPAA know this. The only way they'll ever get the tech industry to do their bidding is by lobbying for new laws, because even their legal department isn't big enough to take on the likes of Intel, IBM, and Cisco, the primary suppliers of hardware for usenet sites. However they do have the budget to launch a FUD campaign by suing smaller web site operators, the usenet portals that have made that network so popular recently. I think if we had more insight into their finances we might discover that the RIAA and MPAA spend almost as much money on publicists, spokesmen, and newswire press releases to spin and advertize their lawsuits as they spend filing those lawsuits. Maybe the reason there isn't much discussion going on here is because of www.p2pconsortium.com, specifically this thread. Last edited by Mazer : 12-03-06 at 11:28 AM.