RIAA Sues Usenet, Decries it as 'Brazen Outlaw'

RIAA Sues Usenet, Decries it as 'Brazen Outlaw'
By David Kravets Email 10.16.07 | 4:00 PM

The Recording Industry Association of America's litigation strategy is 
taking a detour into the internet's Precambrian layer, suing a company 
that distributes the ancient decentralized message board known as Usenet.

Fargo, North Dakota-based Usenet.com is the target of the lawsuit (.pdf) 
filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, in 
which 14 recording companies allege the service "enables and encourages 
its customers to reproduce and distribute millions of infringing copies 
of Plaintiff's valuable copyrighted sound recordings."

The suit, filed Friday, is something of a throwback in the RIAA's recent 
litigation strategy. It targets an alleged facilitator of copyright 
theft instead of an individual pirate.

"They started by going after Napster, Aimster, Grokster, and after that 
they said, 'We're gonna go after individuals to see if we (can) get into 
the psyche of people that peer-to-peer file sharing is wrong,'" says 
Washington, D.C.-based copyright attorney Ross Dannenberg. "Now it has 
come full circle. Throughout this cycle, (Usenet) newsgroups have been 
ignored."

Rest of article:
http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2007/10/riaa_usenet


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