At 07:52 AM 6/22/2001 -0700, David Honig wrote:
At 08:36 PM 6/21/01 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
Due to violations of the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) the Usenet newsgroups listed below are being discontinued from the Excite@Home news feed.
I don't understand how DMCA comes into play for content already ripped by someone else.
Does @Home also filter & grab NNTP requests to servers they don't control, like some other ISP is filtering & grabbing SMTP?
I don't think so, but have never checked. It seems that one ploy the digital video posters could use is to select a popular, innocuous, news group, and add their content. @Home would then be forced to either filter binaries from that group or take it offline, offending a lot of innocent users. steve