wrote:
http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-979...g=2547-1_3-0-5

They're actually after binaries but they're going after a provider.
Karl

Well, yes, and we can stop car thieves cold by digging 6-foot
deep trenches across all major streets, too. How about stopping
wire fraud by ripping out the phone wires, and stopping mail
fraud by firing all the postal employees? Hopefully, usenet.com
has good legal counsel. If they actually ARE holding a bunch of
copyrighted material in their newsgroup archives, then they do
have a liability. Proving they do NOT have such material is a
bit harder, but there probably are ways they could have their
archive audited. If they can show, by independent audit that
their archived do NOT contain more than an occasional infringing
file, then they have good grounds for a countersuit of malicious
prosecution. From what I hear on NPR, they are sure asking for
such a suit, and going after an outfit that might have the funds
to strike back should be very interesting.

They have been countersued by individuals who were misidentified
as file sharers. In some cases the accused didn't even HAVE a
computer. Try sharing MP3's on your FAX machine!

Jon