MPAA Ignores Usenet, Goes After Bittorrent

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday October 19, 2006 @09:41AM from the well-wouldn't-you-too dept.

mjeppsen writes "The Motion Picture Association of America is turning a blind eye towards movie piracy on Usenet, going after torrent link sites instead. PC Magazine says it is because the studios are in bed with GUBA, who is also shilling downloadable movies for the MPAA at a premium price."

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Shhhhhhhhh (Score:5, Funny)

by LiquidCoooled ( 634315 ) writes: on Thursday October 19, 2006 @09:44AM (#16500585) Homepage Journal

Ethay irstfay uleray ofway ethay usenetway isway ouyay oday otnay alktay aboutway ethay usenetway.

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The first rule of Usenet is... (Score:5, Funny)

by calbanese ( 169547 ) writes: on Thursday October 19, 2006 @09:44AM (#16500595) Homepage

You do not talk about Usenet.

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Great (Score:2, Funny)

by OSS_ilation ( 922367 ) writes: on Thursday October 19, 2006 @09:48AM (#16500641)

because I was starting to get the impression they were a little too focused on all the great music they were putting out lately.

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Uh-huh (Score:5, Funny)

by Otter ( 3800 ) writes: on Thursday October 19, 2006 @09:55AM (#16500731) Journal

Because if they *had* sued this "Guba" thing, you idiots would be congratulating them for their meticulous fairness and consistency and expressing relief that they hadn't "lost the moral high ground" by failing to take legal action against someone...

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Re:The Second rule of Usenet is... (Score:5, Funny)

by vtechpilot ( 468543 ) writes: on Thursday October 19, 2006 @10:03AM (#16500815)

You do not talk about Usenet.

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Re:Shhhhhhhhh (Score:3, Funny)

by xtracto ( 837672 ) writes: on Thursday October 19, 2006 @10:06AM (#16500867) Journal

Does anyone know about a nice usenet client for Linux to download binaries?

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Re:How do they do that? (Score:5, Funny)

by Deadplant ( 212273 ) writes: on Thursday October 19, 2006 @10:12AM (#16500937)

Amazon's mechanical turk service could be used to decode elite speak.

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Nooooo! (Score:5, Funny)

by revery ( 456516 ) writes: <charles@[ ]2.net ['cac' in gap]> on Thursday October 19, 2006 @10:15AM (#16500975) Homepage

PC Magazine says it is because the studios are in bed with GUBA

GUBA!!! You said I was the only one...

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Re:GUBA? (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday October 19, 2006 @10:15AM (#16500983)

WTF man? Didn't you see the first two rules of Usenet above.

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Re:But who's the victim? (Score:2, Funny)

by TwilightSentry ( 956837 ) writes: <twilightsentry@@@gmail...com> on Thursday October 19, 2006 @10:31AM (#16501201) Homepage

Using MPAA and credible in the same sentence? You've been spending too much time in alt.idealism...

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The Third rule of Usenet is... (Score:4, Funny)

by gijoel ( 628142 ) writes: on Thursday October 19, 2006 @10:43AM (#16501385)

...if this is your first time on Usenet, YOU will upload pr0n

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I was curious so... (Score:1, Funny)

by cptnapalm ( 120276 ) writes: on Thursday October 19, 2006 @10:47AM (#16501445)

I went and looked for this "Usenet" of which the article speaks. And I found it.

While in my extensive research, I found no MPAA content.

Perhaps I was sidetracked by all the boobies.

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Comment removed (Score:3, Funny)

by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) writes: on Thursday October 19, 2006 @12:12PM (#16502897)

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Re:The Second rule of Usenet is... (Score:2, Funny)

by mmontour ( 2208 ) writes: <mail@mmontour.net> on Thursday October 19, 2006 @05:46PM (#16508889)

4. If you must talk about Usenet, call it Google Groups.

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Shhhhhhhhh (Score:5, Funny)

The first rule of Usenet is... (Score:5, Funny)

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Uh-huh (Score:5, Funny)

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Re:Shhhhhhhhh (Score:3, Funny)

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Nooooo! (Score:5, Funny)

Re:GUBA? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:But who's the victim? (Score:2, Funny)

The Third rule of Usenet is... (Score:4, Funny)

I was curious so... (Score:1, Funny)

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