I personally hate usenet, newsgroups and rapidshit.

Paying for usenet access, private torrents or newgroups is kind of funny how do you pay money to do a damn illegal thing?,lol

And in no way are they more private or safe they are also required to hand over the names of people and their ip adress and report them to their isp, by law if someone is breaking it and they have a judges written order to do so. Or if the ISP knows you are doing it they are supposed to hand over your info to them.

If you have verizon like i do it is against their service agreement and they can terminate your contract with you without warning. Then send you an e-mail telling you have been cut off and they are giving your name to the proper authorities, has not happened to me does not make it any less real of a threat.

I don't know the laws of european countries, or canada. But in the us we are beholden to the berne convention, international copyright law and interpol. And there is a little thing president Clinton signed into law called the digital millennium copyright act.

And with Big brother out there watching all nobody is safe or secret, nobody has privacy. Welcome to the world of the lawful espionage the gov does on its people in the name of national security.

Does not matter that said spying or espionage is against the us constitution, as far as i have heard, i have not read the document myself in extenso. Why let a little thing like that get in the way,lol.