Major labels have filed a collective lawsuit against Usenet.com, the most common window for people to use the approximately 15-year-old usenet service. The suit, according to Billboard, “alleges that [usenet] enables and encourages its customers to reproduce and distribute millions of the labels' recordings without permission.”
The Usenet.com proprietors could not be reached for comment, but I’m sure they’ll settle out of court for their life savings like everyone else.
Here are some jokes that could follow:
- Next on the chopping block: Gopher
- It looks like someone from the record industry has been reading the 1994 edition of Internet for Dummies!
- The labels went on to ask usenet if they’d seen Terminator 2 and whether or not they’d checked out this new thing called lasertag.
- Alt.binaries.thepartyisover.aw.comeon
- Just kidding, there is no central server of usenet, so this accomplishes nothing.
- Alt.binaries.boners
- That’s the spirit.
