The court hearing between Hollywood movie studios and Newzbin will now resume in early March. In the meantime the Usenet indexer has been reassuring its users that it will neither close down nor hand over their details to their opponents.
Earlier this month the High Court case between the MPA and Newzbin was adjourned so that the Usenet indexer could hire more lawyers.
The case will resume in a couple of weeks, but in the meantime Newzbin has been trying to reassure a minority of its users who have been showing concern at developments.
“Some people have speculated that if we lose we may be closed down, but even the MPA isn’t arguing for that: what’s being debated is the manner in which we operate not whether we operate,” said the company in an update.
“The message we want you to take away is that, win or lose, you can be confident that the site is here to stay in the long term.”
Some Newzbin users said they were concerned about their privacy and asked the company what information was being held about them in the site’s logs.
Newzbin responded that although logs are kept for a short period, details of the NZB files downloaded by users are not stored, adding;
“No request has been made for our logs during the discovery phase of litigation and due to the nature of the legal process that request would have to have been made a long time ago: it wasn’t. They [the MPA] cannot now, legally, have it; and moreover they dont actually seem that interested either. The fact is this: they are gunning for Newzbin not you.”
The case will resume March 2nd 2010.
Article from: FreakBits