for over a day now both servers have stopped working.....for me at least.
while newszilla6.xs4all.nl is not even pingable here,i assume its HW's been taken down and/or offline ?
news.ipv6.eweka.nl as almost always, is still pingable, BUT apparently not running the news ipv6 server SW anymore as even telnetting to port 119 doesnt seem to return anything there for over 24 hours, logs seem to indicate no data flowing just after 5am tuesday morning.
anyone else seeing this form the UK Virginmedia connections at least ?
this old Usenet story they ruled on today also bothers me, it just seems wrong, what happened to "mere conduit" defence ?
http://torrentfreak.com/the-riaa-attacks-usenet-071016/
The RIAA Attacks Usenet
Written by enigmax on October 16,
2007
and '"Well, Usenet.com have lost.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07...a_usenet_case/
RIAA claims victory in Usenet.com copyright case
'Direct, contributory, vicarious infringement'
By Kelly Fiveash • Get more from this author
Posted in Music and Media, 1st July
2009 11:48 GMT
"Quote:
A US district judge has ruled in favour of the Recording Industry Ass. of America (RIAA) in the copyright case brought against Usenet.com that kicked off in autumn 2007.
“We’re pleased that the court recognised not just that Usenet.com directly infringed the record companies’ copyrights but also took action against the defendants for their egregious litigation misconduct,” said the RIAA in a short statement yesterday.
...
Judge Harold Baer of the Southern District of New York court dished out the ruling. He found Usenet.com guilty of “direct, contributory, and vicarious infringement”.
There's no word yet on what penalty the judge has hit Usenet.com "
Bad news for all Usenet users. Whether you use it to download legal files or otherwise, you could find your provider hit anyway."'
again, perhaps we NEED to setup some free smaller binary usenet peering somewere, or i at least cant continue using it as is, shame.