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Originally Posted by TheDoc
See if everyone can understand this..
Newsgroups are legal, Guba is legal. Anyone wants to take them to court will lose. Guba is one of 1000+ newsgroup feed sites, all legal in the United States as long as they follow a few guidelines.
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Simply put you're very, very wrong and have no clue on the subject it seems, as with many posting about it or even involved in it. The stuff Guba is doing is NOT legal, however to prove that point would cost far more than probably any of those affected would be able to afford. There's a huge difference between legal and simply too expensive to prosecute. Guba are NOT simply providing access to newsgroups - try reading the threads or even joining them and seeing for yourself.
For fucks sake you only have to look at something like Napster which was pulling FAR less crap than Guba as far as copyright goes. The difference is the companies Napster hit had almost bottomless purses as far as court action went. Not true of the companies Guba are hitting.
But then that's the way of things these days. People get away with all sorts of dodgy crap simply because they know that nobody can afford to stop them. Acacia was a great example although in the end they hugely underestimated some of the more professional companies in the Biz which will find to their cost soon it seems.