The Boston Globe is reporting on a battle between Usenet and the movie industry. Usenet is actually an separate entity from the Internet and is basically a collection of tens of thousands of newsgroups ranging from aardvarks to zebra. Picture files are also widely available and it remains one of the most readily available sources of pornography. With the advent of high-speed downloads and readily available video and music compression software, Usenet has become a haven for downloading pirated movies. I once worked with a guy who would sometimes download 2 or 3 movies a night. The Boston Globe has...