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Originally Posted by sarettah
Guba is making it extremely easy to get at the content, that is the issue. I think they are taking a big risk because they are (apparently) bringing the content into their own server and manipulating it there. That is what nailed napster I believe, because their servers were in the middle of the whole mess.
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It doesn't matter if it's on their server or not. The same stuff is stored on all the other newsgroup servers in the world. The main difference is that they have decoded the binaries while most normal newsgroup servers leave the binaries encoded.
GUBA is getting away with what they are doing because they say they are just selling the service of a system that decodes the binaries. No different then the programs out there that decode the binaries from newsgroups. To stop GUBA, you need to make it illegal for all the usenet servers to carry binaries and go back to text newsgroups only.
There are many GUBA type of sites on the internet. It's just that GUBA is the most well known.