Newsgroups Safe From The RIAA?

July 1st, 2005 • Related • Filed Under

Institutions like the RIAA never seem to go after newsgroup users, even though these users tend to be the biggest downloaders of content.

For instance, one newsgroup user at my ISP downloaded nearly 1TB in one month.

Maybe the RIAA are ignoring Usenet users because prosecuting them won’t act as a deterrent as the average user will have no idea what Usenet is. Maybe the RIAA is also scared to take on the ISPs directly who are storing the ‘content’ on their servers.

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Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University, and currently runs the Portal and online operations for one of the largest ISPs in the UK. He also writes for Windows 7 News.

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