[Eeyore]

Bill Riel wrote:

says...

That would be a hard task in the first place. Given that news servers operate on
a peering basis how the heck are they supposed to keep it out ? It's not even as
if it's their own customers they'd need to deal with.

The only thing they could do would be to not carry binary groups. That
doesn't necessarily prevent sharing of binaries, but it would be a step
in that direction.

The problem is, I suspect that the availability of binary groups is a
big draw for many customers and they'd soon go out of business without
them.

I fail to see how the RIAA can force them to completely stop carrying binaries quite
frankly.

Graham