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- craznar, on 07/08/2009, -0/+132Summary: AT&T now charges users to access child pornography.
- Feldon, on 07/07/2009, -0/+99We all know that this is more about Piracy and file sharing then it is child porn.
- Long189, on 07/08/2009, -2/+77Please AT&T, protect me from content that I would never be able to access unless i was specifically looking for it.
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…..,’ ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;,’ ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;|..’-,_ ; ; ; , ; ; ; ; ; ‘, - Kwipper, on 07/08/2009, -1/+68*****. They're getting rid of their USENET because of piracy!
- doc101, on 07/08/2009, -1/+61Wait, they ***** gave out free usenet? o.O
- atomicfire, on 07/08/2009, -1/+48just in case you accidently downloaded a usenet binary client, accidently found your UseNet settings, accidently logged, in, accidently got the nzb for your child porn, then accidently downloaded the archives, then accidently around out none of them were corrupted, then accidently unzipped them and accidently started to view child porn.
right.
I think they just wanted an excuse to shut off. - MAGZine, on 07/08/2009, -4/+38"We're quitting free usenet access, because we're against net-neutrality and for being cheapasses! Limited website access coming in 2011! Get access to Google, Yahoo and 11 other big name websites for the low price of $21.99!!!"
/s??? (worried this might be reality) - EverybodyPanic, on 07/08/2009, -2/+31I demand that AT&T shutdown the NSA's secret wiretap rooms to protect me from child pornography. Apparently if enough customers insist, AT&T will cave in. So you know what to do.
- unitedkronos, on 07/07/2009, -1/+26A pun on where Pedobear has his hideouts.
- iliketehcheese, on 07/07/2009, -2/+27or more to do with cheapness.
- The0, on 07/08/2009, -1/+25Welcome to digg. Here are some steadfast rules:
1) MrBabyMan always gets to the front page.
2) Pictures of cats, goats, bacon, or any combination of the three will always get to the front page.
3) ASCII art (such as PedoBear, /facepalm, and Admiral Ackbar) will always be positively dugg.
Accept these things and you're time here will go much smoother. - Nitrodist88, on 07/08/2009, -4/+27***** special interest groups.
- Mockylock, on 07/08/2009, -4/+27On a daily basis. Where the ***** have YOU been?
- nubnub, on 07/08/2009, -2/+24Very common for ISPs
- Suricou, on 07/08/2009, -0/+21Until recently, it was standard - one of the services every ISP was just expected to offer, like an email account.
- Y0tsuya, on 07/08/2009, -0/+19Child Porn is a red herring in many legislation and law enforcement policies.
- OrangeTide, on 07/08/2009, -0/+15I find your remarks to be intolerant of my ASCII art worshiping religion.
- nubnub, on 07/08/2009, -2/+16Yes
- Mockylock, on 07/08/2009, -2/+15Raping babies is only an insignificant federal offense. Piracy is MUCH worse.
More like, "money talks" and the MAFIAA has a pretty heavy pull when it comes to getting its point across. - EvilFerret, on 07/08/2009, -1/+14Most have stupid limits such as 5GB a month though. Given how fast you can pirate on Usenet, 5GB is about 15minutes worth of downloading time. Edit-- Hmm looks like they didn't have limits. Horrible retention, but badass deal for free....
- suntzusputnik, on 07/08/2009, -3/+15***** AT&T
***** COMCAST
***** THE RIAA
***** THE MPAA
***** TERRORISTS
***** JACK THOMPSON
***** TWATTERS
***** ME - WoollyMittens, on 07/08/2009, -1/+13Your argument makes no sense. According to your reasoning they could have effectively filtered out kiddyporn.
- FreeHottiePorn, on 07/08/2009, -3/+15I highly doubt child porn is the primary concern here. Piracy all the way.
- copypastry, on 07/08/2009, -1/+13craznar - very astute.
You win the thread. - inactive, on 07/08/2009, -1/+13you forgot to remove the /s
- Subcide, on 07/08/2009, -0/+11I think they're just waging a war on "free"
- volcompimp, on 07/08/2009, -0/+11Charging for a service "protects" users?
- ericdano, on 07/08/2009, -2/+13AT&T has been censoring the USENET feeds forever. 10+ years. Longer probably. They never have had full access Usenet.
- artfiend77, on 07/08/2009, -0/+10You forgot
4) People will always whine, no matter what.
5) Your and you're, their, there and they're are totally interchangeable.
6) Badly drawn comics ALWAYS make it to front page. Oh, and pictures of goats too. - deanc, on 07/08/2009, -1/+11Yep i laugh at Andrew Cuomo 'think of the children' but by the way it's ok if you pay $14.99 a month.
http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/when-b ...
hmmmm - Suricou, on 07/08/2009, -0/+10As a forum, it's mostly dead. A few users still hang out, but the spams outnumber real posts several to one. As a piracy place though, it's very much alive.
- rangah, on 07/08/2009, -1/+11"What is wrong with that?" - if there's nothing wrong with it, why are they saying it's because of child pornography?
- TheCheeks, on 07/08/2009, -0/+9Well I'll go out on a limb and say you haven't. And just 'cause you haven't, doesn't mean we don't.
- inactive, on 07/07/2009, -4/+13Caves?
- inactive, on 07/08/2009, -1/+9Cave In, Give In ?
Come on its a common enough term ffs. - cran, on 07/08/2009, -0/+7People may not realize this, but Usenet is literally the foundation of free speech on the internet. If the internet itself shut down, it would survive. You can't say that about HTTP and the social sites it delivers.
- MAGZine, on 07/08/2009, -1/+8I I appear to be wrong - I didn't RTFA, and assumed they were blocking access to ALL Usenet. Still retarded. Also: totally not out of bounds for AT&T. They do filter BitTorrent, don't they? Better shut the down, too, because of "child porn'.
Thanks to sub-commenters for correcting me because I'm lazy. - Suricou, on 07/08/2009, -1/+8I agree there is nothing wrong with it.
But I think there is something wrong with them lying about their motivation, giving all this 'We must protect the children' crap as a justification to make them look like heros. - chris86wm, on 07/08/2009, -1/+8Earthlink still has free, unlimited usenet access! They just recently removed their 5 gig per month cap and have switch to unlimited downloads.
- inactive, on 07/08/2009, -0/+7You don't need an nzb.
- Fogell, on 07/08/2009, -0/+7ATT has free USENET? Can someone fill me in?
- OrangeTide, on 07/08/2009, -1/+7dropping Usenet because of porn and piracy is an excuse. You don't *have* to carry those feeds. Would be nice if for my $50/mo I could post on Usenet without having to use crappy google groups (no spam filtering) or pay a bunch of money for access.
There are some of us who want to post real comments on comp.lang.* or rec.games.* and are not interested in spending all night trying to paste together 200 posts to get a dirty video.
My ISP already dropped it entirely. Their website recommends I pay for Giganews. Yea, not going to invest that kind of money just to chat about programming. - skinturtle, on 07/08/2009, -0/+6"Protect"...lol! Yes AT&T You're out for my good and well being. Talk about insulting someone's intelligence.
- Y0tsuya, on 07/08/2009, -1/+7They did not limit protocol access. They shut down their usenet feeds. You are welcome to find alternative feeds.
- blitzkriegpunk, on 07/08/2009, -0/+6the whole thing?
- inactive, on 07/08/2009, -1/+7He is a kid from the "1st rule of usenet is dont talk about usenet".
Ie the group of script kiddies that discovered in the last 4 years what newsgroups had been doing for the last ~40 years.
The idea of using a proper usenet client (or even outlook if your a masochist) has never occurred to them. - sirdarksoul, on 07/08/2009, -0/+6After AG Cuomo uncovered “88 different Newsgroups that contained a total of 11,390 sexually lewd photos featuring prepubescent children.......So he looked at every pic to count them? Hmmmmmm
- Noctem, on 07/08/2009, -2/+8Not really. AT&T has been heavily filtering their binary newsgroups for years. The 'standard' piracy newsgroups have been unavailable through AT&T's servers for many years.
- GhettoHmbrglr, on 07/08/2009, -0/+5had*
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