RIAA Wins Layup Against Usenet.com

Courtesy Techdirt  Wed, 07/01/2009 - 07:00

When the RIAA first sued Usenet.com, we thought it could make for an interesting case.

After all, you could make a decent argument that there are a ton of non-infringing uses of Usenet. However, as the details came out, it became pretty clear that Usenet.com dug its own grave, so it should be no surprise at all that a judge was quick to side with the RIAA .

There are two main things at issue: first, it appears...

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