The Recording Industry Association of America has found a new legal target for a copyright lawsuit: Usenet. In a lawsuit filed on October 12, the RIAA says that Usenet newsgroups contain “millions of ...

Over the last few years, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and other organizations looking to eliminate the illegal swapping of digital media files have attacked the problem through ...

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 ...

We asked deKay whether he ever used the Usenet for hosting binaries. I did set up a binaries group for posting stuff relating to the Sinclair Spectrum about 10 or 12 years ago,' he says, 'but it ...

Google has officially announced it's ceasing support for Usenet groups on its Google Groups platform, a move partly attributed to the platform's increasing struggle with spam content. The upcoming ...

Usenet is the ultimate discussion board, orders of magnitude larger than the largest Internet forum, and includes petabytes of binary files. Unfortunately it can be daunting to new users. Most ...