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Originally Posted by lordy

Agree with everything else but ...

Agree: Easynews doesnt count it but NTL do if you are on a capped connection. All NTL see is the amount of data not the protocol being used.Lordy

Doh, of course, I was thinking purely from Easynews's cap not NTL's.

I'll get me coat...

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Originally Posted by James Henry

Excuse my ignorance on this guys

Are you saying that Easynews decode the base 7 NNTP files so you are downloading pure binaries without the need to decode them back to base 8, and that they have a searchable index of the decoded binaries?

I'm curious as they'd need to either decode them on the fly or have double the storage, and it's a bit shaky legally if they are not only storing but indexing the binaries in a human-readable format.

EDIT: Never mind I just checked on it on the website. Here's hoping the RIAA/MPAA et al don't go after them, they would be shut down quicker than you could say 'omfgwtfbbq' the services they offer blow the 'common carrier' defense out of the window a bit

I don't think they are worried, this has cropped up time and again and their answer is always something along of the lines of 'we don't post anything and no human decodes stuff etc etc'

They have been going for years, maybe their time will come but they seem to be within current US laws.