arstechnica.com — New York's Attorney General has turned his initial efforts against online sharing of child porn into a campaign, complete with its own website and a form letter to send to ISPs. The site's announcement coincides with AOL and AT&T reaching an agreement to block newsgroups where such porn appears.
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Closed AccountJul 13, 2008
More than likely the ISP's are throwing the baby out with the bath water. They're probably afraid of getting sued or having charges leveled against them if anyone finds child porn in ANY alt.* group. It's not like it's even their fault to begin with. I defy any government official to tell me what a uuencoded post decodes to without decoding it.
abomonogJul 13, 2008
Two things about this mess.First: Cox cable is still hosting. The local offices (southeastern Va.) say Cox position is that they don't want to kill an entire hierarchy over a handful of newsgroups.Second: Consider this a lead up to killing off P2P. A child porn scare would be the ticket to do it and look at the fate of usenet.
azulyaJul 14, 2008
Actually it is of use (to the bad guys).It cuts down on the piracy of CP videos, and thus it aids commercial CP production. Yay!
azulyaJul 14, 2008
Welcome to America 2.0
azulyaJul 14, 2008
They'll just be called 3 million year old alien midgets, then.
azulyaJul 14, 2008
Connection to what?
vincent510Jul 29, 2008
Just one person's opinion, but AT&T / Bell's decision to drop binary newsgroups is all about cutting their costs, but that wouldn't go over too well with customers, so "child porn" became a convenient excuse.I switched to a dedicated newsgroup service a couple years ago, and it's worked out well. Initially I wasn't excited about having to pay extra for newsgroups outside my ISP service, but I like the idea that I'll always have newsgroup access regardless of what ISP I decide to use.If you're considering a paid newsgroup provider, Newsguy may be worth a look. Long retention, no missing posts, and less expensive than some of the other services I tried (Giganews, Easynews, etc.) They have 10GB accounts for $3 month, 50 GB for $8 month, and Unlimited for $15 month.For what it's worth, they're also offering a free month of newsgroup access to AT&T, Roadrunner & Verizon customers...<a class="user" href="http://newsguy.com/freemonth.htm">http://newsguy.com/freemonth.htm</a>Later,V