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Posted by not on 10/14/05 20:25
tbone <noneedto@email.me>:
> Evidence shows that the Evil Empire can easily extort the IP address
> of a file sharer from an ISP. What about Usenet? Are file sharers
> less exposed downloading from and posting to newsgroups?
Downloading from usenet is about as safe as you can get without
forswearing file-sharing altogether. Your internet provider and
your news providers may track how much you download, but they don't
care what you download. Even uploading is pretty safe, as long as
you do it through a pay news service and not your ISP. If you post
through the latter, you risk losing your cable/dsl account, which
would be annoying. Through an NSP, and at worst you lose that account
and can sign up for another. It's not in the interest of an NSP to
turn you in, since they get paid by downloaders, who'd fade away if
uploaders all gave up. I uploaded almost 100 films in the last two
months or so, and have uploaded for years, without a single complaint.
Contrarily, I've gotten two complaints for sharing files on P2P, so
I don't share American films anymore.
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