[ EEPI-Discuss ] Usenet Increasingly Popular for Movie Downloading

[Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>]

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From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@warpspeed.com>
Date: May 23, 2005 7:27:35 PM EDT
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <dewayne-net@warpspeed.com>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Back to Basics
Reply-To: dewayne@warpspeed.com


[Note:  This item comes from reader Scott Berry.  DLH]


> From: Scott Berry <sjb@optonline.net>
> Date: May 23, 2005 3:49:34 PM PDT
> To: 'Dewayne Hendricks' <dewayne@warpspeed.com>
> Subject: Back to Basics
> Reply-To: sjb@optonline.net
> Now they?ll be trying to shut down Usenet?
>
>    Scott
>
>
>
> (San Francisco) Wired News on Monday reported on the resurgence of  
> Usenet newsgroups as a means of downloading copyrighted content  
> like full-length movies. Benefiting from new commercial, high- 
> bandwidth Usenet services, as well as a new file format called NZB  
> that protects against lost bits of download data, the improved  
> Usenet architecture is now seeing 60GB of DVD rips posted each day,  
> according to NewsAdmin. "Though the copyright industries boast  
> significantly improved geekery and monitoring technology, Usenet  
> remains relatively unmonitored," digital music consultant Toby  
> Lewis told Wired News.
> <http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,67588,00.html>
> <http://www.download.com/NewsBin-Pro/3000-2164_4-10285921.html>
> <http://www.usenet.com>
>
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