Originally Posted by RawAlex

harrison, sorry,but you are wrong. If that was all that Guba did, there would be nothing to it.

However, they extract the images, store them seperate from the posts on their own servers, and sell access to THAT service. Further, they will even encode videos taken from the newsgroups into other formats (such as pod format) to satisfy it's end users.

They don't just give access - they manipulate, organize, filter, clean, strip, and otherwise exert editorial control over what appears on the site. That isn't just "giving access to the usenet", that is using and reselling content without a license.

Wonder why the skin disappeared so fast? Hmmm?

Alex