[shii]

I don't know why anyone would use a real credit card tied to their name & SSN for Usenet. That's just asking for trouble, considering how more and more people are mentioning it on public boards. The day I saw a post on how to download nzbs from Usenet from Lifehacker complete with detailing how to setup sab and sickbeard + couchpotato, I almost had a heart attack.

[jrockway]

Usenet is protected by "common carrier" legal immunity, not by secrecy. I am sure the MPAA and RIAA know what Usenet is... but consider how flaky their "we have proof of you uploading the video to us" cases are, and then consider how they would go after people who didn't even upload anything.