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Originally Posted by monkey2468
I would guess that most would be similar.
http://www.giganews.com/legal/privacy.html
'Giganews holds personal information about you in the strictest confidence and does not sell or rent that information. Giganews will not release or divulge any customer information unless ordered to do so by a court of law. ' |
any less and i'm sure it'll break some form of data protection law.
i don't think the riaa want the people downloading just usenet.com to stop supplying it, that in turn will stop those people using usenet.com. however there are a lot of usenet providers so removing copyright material from one (if successful) won't make any difference. It would however make it easier for it to get the stuff removed from the other providers.
The main problem is, they can't enforce a blanket block on alt.binaries.* due to that containing non-copyright material too, so they have to block individual groups but that is just like removing a domain name, ie another will just be created. Whatever the outcome, it wont be finished for sometime as usenet.com probably have enough money to actually have a court case and stand a chance of winning.