Usenet.com lawyers lost their copyright infringement case to the music industry on Tuesday and are now preparing for a federal court to assess damages. The judgment could be hundreds of millions of ...

Long before Facebook existed, or even before the Internet, there was Usenet. Usenet was the first social network. Now, with Google Groups abandoning Usenet, this oldest of all social networks is ...

This corner of the Internet, largely a leftover from the days before the Web exploded into the mainstream, rarely gets much attention. It’s still primarily a forum for text discussions (and ...

Decades before Twitter threads, Reddit forums, or Facebook groups, there was Usenet: an early-internet, pre-Web discussion system where one could start and join conversations much like today’s message ...

Usenet is a lesser known file-sharing system that its fans have tried to keep under the radar for years. However, the genie has been out of the bottle for a long time and with an increasingly ...

A federal judge yesterday found Usenet.com liable for just about every copyright infringement claim on the books: direct infringement, inducement of infringement, contributory infringement, and (just ...

Editor’s note: This article was updated on July 8, 2025, to reflect new information discovered by an external investigation in May 2020. Two companies that provide Usenet services have disclosed ...

Horton’s message was a response to a previous post, the intact original of which is now lost to history, from one “sdcarl!rusty,” aka Rusty Wright. With this incomplete fragment of a cryptic exchange, ...

First off, BitTorrent and Usenet are both pretty safe provided you're not downloading anything illegal and we don't condone you use either for anything else. That said, you can face problems even if ...