[Carrie]

I thought they were only providing a GUI to the newsgroups and if that were the case, they *would* be perfectly legal. To sue them you'd have to sue every email program producer out there (Microsoft included) for also providing a GUI to newsgroups.

But if they're taking the content, putting it on their own servers and having the users download it from there, then that's sue-able. They are, at that point, distributing the material rather than just providing access to a source. Reformatting it as well? That just nails them even further; they can't claim innocence when they're actively taking the content and manipulating it to suit their own needs before distributing it.

A paysite could look at it as a form of advertising, but when they've got your entire catalog up there and they're providing services with it that you don't (like putting it into ipod chunks), then they're in direct competition with you and you need to do something about it.