The "pirate menace" has moved from Minnesota to North Dakota -- Usenet.com (and newsfeeds.com, not named in the lawsuit), a service that takes the ancient usenet and makes it more accessible to the average user, is on the RIAA's naughty-list. Turns out -- wha?! -- they're located just down the street from the Dairy Queen on 45th Street. Sierra Corporate Design, the business at that address and on the other end of internet criminality in the past, has no corporate website, past domains (jam.net and spamkiller.net) tied to their company have lapsed, and they don't seem to be taking interns anymore. Still, there's a difference between the medium for piracy exchange, and the actual transfer. Since usenet posts reside on Usenet.com's servers (although, since it's user-posted, as an ISP they're not legally responsible for the content, though that's changing), they're going to run into the precedent set by Napster: if the data touches your computer and you know it, you're getting sued.
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