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ISP Backlash May Mean The End of Usenet

Ever since New York’s attorney general specifically targeted newsgroups and usenet for child pornography (which is deplorable), there’s been a backlash of ISPs dropping support for the network altogether. Crunchgear lists Time Warner, Verizon and Sprint either cutting off all support or limiting it to various non-binary categories, making people who access usenet for an easy way to download free movies pretty angry. Will ISPs dropping it mean the start of a slow death of usenet as a whole, or will third-party usenet access sites (which charge fees) keep it alive for a while yet? [Crunchgear]


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