> 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 t

> 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)