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To: Popocatapetl

I assumed there would be no Usenet access included in this plan, but are you saying a third party Usenet provider or P2P sockets are blocked ?


16 posted on 06/29/2007 7:20:12 AM PDT by tlb
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To: tlb

Not blocked and not censored. But with even a hint that you might be uploading or downloading copyrighted material, they will now turn you over to the RIAA and MPAA for lawsuit, as was announced a week ago.

How can you use USENET for anything other than text, and P2P at all, if you are under such a threat? Unless it is obvious, how are you to know in advance if a binary file is public domain?

In effect, it is like the phone company monitoring all of your calls, looking for keywords that might implicate you in a crime or litigation, then turning over such evidence to anyone they think might want to prosecute or sue you.

In effect, it would limit what you could say on the phone to something as terse as a telegraph.

The purpose of having high bandwidth Internet is just that, high bandwidth. If you can’t use it for that purpose, even with files you know are not copyrighted, you are not getting what you pay for.


19 posted on 06/29/2007 8:21:23 AM PDT by Popocatapetl
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