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, ...

It’s the tree of life, and for no particular reason, either. What? Today we’ll be setting up our Usenet software to look at an RSS feed. (You can also accomplish pretty much the same thing using ...

Usenet newsgroups dedicated to piracy are seeing a resurgence in activity as file sharers seek less-policed areas of the internet to trade illegal data. Some pirated movies are now even appearing in ...

The recording industry has racked up another significant legal victory over an Internet-based piracy facilitator. By Billboard Staff The recording industry has racked up another significant legal ...

In the wake of its victory in the first file-sharing case to go to trial, the RIAA has moved on to its next target: the nefarious home of millions of illicit files, Usenet. Yesterday, a consortium of ...

If and when the **AA have Usenet shut down after the piece appears, feel free to blame Biggs. He’s making me write it. I occasionally mention Usenet when talking about piracy here, but I’ve never ...

A social-networking fossil looks even more embedded in sedimentary rock now that Google plans to retire the Usenet gateway it’s maintained at its Google Groups site since 2001. The news surfaced ...