Comments on: ISPs Shut Down Usenet to Save Children — and Cash

By: How Certain Idiots Can Get A Whole Country Banned - Enjoying Web 2.0? | The Recursive ISV

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:15:14 +0000

[...] not just Europe – the USA too. In New York state Time Warner announced they were doing it, Sprint is banning all alt.* groups, Virgin in the UK, and the RIAA [...]

By: Usenet Shake-up Could Strengthen Usenet Industry « NewTeeVee

Usenet Shake-up Could Strengthen Usenet Industry « NewTeeVee — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:31:13 +0000

[...] the original piracy hotbed, is in the midst of a shake-up after New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo persuaded Verizon, Time Warner Cable and Sprint to ban child porn by cutting down on their Usenet offerings. [...]

By: David Linus

David Linus — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:40:34 +0000

My feeling is that although the crimes should be addressed, and precautions should be taken, the outright removal of ALL newsgroups seems entirely unfair. There are plenty of newsgroups that are completely legitimate. Microsoft, Apple, Google and even our Government all have newsgroup relations. TO kill this access to information seems a great deal overboard.
FOr me, this was the final straw. TWC was only kept around as my ISP because of Usenet access. Without this, I am leaving. I joined http://www.newsdemon.com and they’re actually better than any usenet access that Ive had with an ISP, or with any other Usenet provider for that matter.
Now the mission is to find another ISP that has my interest in mind rather than one that takes advantage of a situation in order to cut costs on bandwidth.
D. Linus

By: What’s On GigaNET: Late Night Edition - GigaOM

What’s On GigaNET: Late Night Edition - GigaOM — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:34:17 +0000

[...] NewTeeVee: ISPs shut down Usenet to save children and cash. [...]