punchfast  wrote: 
 >I'm not sure if this is the right group to ask this, but if not maybe 
 >someone can direct me to the proper group. 
  
 >IN newsgroups that have downloadable files, ( music, movies, pictures, 
 >software) is it possible for these files to be monitored or tracked? 
 >Couldn't the Recording industry be monitoring the groups of music or movies 
 >and capture the IP addresses of those Downloading or Uploading copyrighted 
 >media?  They did it with Kazaa, why not the Usenet? 
  
 Uploaders, possibly.  Downloaders, with great difficulty. 
  
 Uploading will leave an address or reference tag which could 
 be traced back to the source, IF it hasn't been forged.  So 
 it is quite possible to nail a naive uploader.  It has indeed 
 been pointed out that certain constabular agencies have news 
 servers, but what they do, who knows? 
  
 Downloading is anonymouse beyond the domain of the news server. 
 A server admin could snoop and track who is requestion what 
 group messages, but an agency would have to do that one server 
 at a time (as opposed to sitting on there server and seeing it 
 all happen).  And that's a LOT of servers to snoop. 
  
 ru 
  
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