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termpest, you truly are ignorant.
Yes, the usenet is a cesspool of content theft and CP.
Yes, you can access it and download the material to your own computer (full posts) and then you can manipulate it yourself any way you like.
No issues.
GUBA does the manipulation for you. They toss out the posts and keep only the images - and then they resell access to them.
Think about it this way: if they were burning the content onto CDs and reselling it, would it be a violation of copyright? Damn straight.
The usenet in and of itself lives on the edge of questionable legal ground, but because it is effectively impossible to figure out who runs what, it is a free zone (and really sucks). However, just because an image or movie appears on there doesn't mean you can turn around and resell JUST THE IMAGES.
Guba just made itself VERY well known... they are going to be handling C&Ds for a long time to come.
Alex
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