The First Rule Of Usenet is…YOU DON’T TALK ABOUT USENET!
Ok so who was it? 
Looks like the lumbering, hairy knuckled, copyright infringer smashing hand of the RIAA is heading towards Usenet by taking a first shot at the provider usenet.com. I’d never heard of usenet.com but I guess it makes sense for them to take down a provider with the same name as the service for full paranoia propaganda means.
Quite frankly I’m surprised it’s taken so long but I’m not really sure where it will end now they’ve started. In theory if the Usenet providers comply with takedown notices they should be protected in the same way that web host providers are. It would be a very different (read empty) web if every web host guilty of hosting copyright material was shut down.
I’m just waiting for the “Old man beaten to death with legal papers by crack RIAA legal squad for humming tune in public” headline.
I don’t believe it Usenet will become pointless if Usenet servers start complying I certainly wouldn’t subscribe to a provider if it was adhering to take down rules. I would just make sure some offshore server would get my money.
Any Usenet server that comply s is signing its own death warrant no users will pay for a dumbed down version.
The reason it took so long is because Using Usenet wasn’t straight forward you had to download then repair then extract then mount before you could watch now software like Grabit has made it more accessible doing all three in one piece of software.
Its gone to far we should stand up and fight back surely these lawyers have websites that they use to promote their evil services.
I agree and thankfully usenet is still not the choice of most people so it does tend to avoid most of the attention that the p2p services get.