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I'm also curious -- how come you hear big stories about governments going after torrent sites, which don't even host the pirated content. But I've never heard

• fckgw 2y ago
  Usenet files get taken down all the time. Rights holders send notices to the Usenet providers and they remove enough of the binaries where they can't be repaired by the PAR files. Indexers are separate entities. Those are the ones who catalog and host the .nzb files. You see those go offline far more often but Usenet is still pretty small compared to torrents so they don't get reported as much.
• joecool1029 2y ago
  > But I've never heard big stories about the government going after big Usenet providers. The most litigious government has a 'safe harbor' provision most of the major Usenet backbones comply with: https://www.copyright.gov/512/ https://www.copyright.gov/512/ And they do take down a substantial amount of content every day, so while everyone knows piracy is common there, what more are they supposed to do? At this point the main effective thing governments can do to make it annoying to use Usenet for piracy is target the indexers (and they do this, but more always move in to replace the ones that are shut down)