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Originally Posted by jscott

I heard tube sites are getting restricted by law, for example, empflix now limited to 30 minutes vid per person per day, that is GREAT!

This is a pretty good read. Especially when the newsbin dude tries to explain his search terms.....lolol....

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/n...fringement.ars

Newzbin, a major indexer of Usenet newsgroup binaries, has been hammered by a UK judge. Though the site claimed to be nothing more than a "Google for Usenet" that indexed all sorts of useful material, the judge found that site operators knew about copyright infringement, did nothing to stop it, and in fact designed a site meant to encourage it.

Newzbin made it simple for Usenet users to access binary files. Without the service, it could be tedious to collect and decode the many parts of a video file, for instance; even finding them was difficult, since Usenet lacks good search features. Newzbin did the hard work of sorting through Usenet uploads, collecting the useful information, and packaging it into a tiny NZB file. Newsreaders that could handle such files would then be able to grab every part of a movie at once and reassemble it with minimal effort.

Newzbin hosted no content of its own, but it made plenty of money from this curating service by charging 30 pence a week for access. According to court documents, the company pulled down more than £1 million in 2009, with £415,000 doled out to stakeholders, and another £360,000 in profit.