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punky · 23-10-2009, 17:32

Chuffing hell Rob you scared me there for a moment.

As others have said most newsgroups offer SSL. This (I think) will withstand the Deep Packet Inspection they use on torrents. The only way they'd know is if they managed to subpoena the newsgroup server's logs and they contained something. Also people need .nzb files (pointers to content on newsgroups) but again these can be SSL as well.

Also by design newsgroups are a direct connection between the server and user. Torrents by design spray data out to everyone else utilising the torrent at the time which can be companies hired by content providers.

Also its a small but important distinction: Everyone so far has been done for sharing (i.e. re-uploading/making available) a copy of the copyrighted works. This doesn't happen with newsgroups (except for the initial release usually done by groups with secure proxies).

23-10-2009, 17:32	#8
punky Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Age: 44 Posts: 14,750	Re: Newsgroup Activity Tracking Chuffing hell Rob you scared me there for a moment. As others have said most newsgroups offer SSL. This (I think) will withstand the Deep Packet Inspection they use on torrents. The only way they'd know is if they managed to subpoena the newsgroup server's logs and they contained something. Also people need .nzb files (pointers to content on newsgroups) but again these can be SSL as well. Also by design newsgroups are a direct connection between the server and user. Torrents by design spray data out to everyone else utilising the torrent at the time which can be companies hired by content providers. Also its a small but important distinction: Everyone so far has been done for sharing (i.e. re-uploading/making available) a copy of the copyrighted works. This doesn't happen with newsgroups (except for the initial release usually done by groups with secure proxies).