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Thanks to New York's Attorney General
On Sun, 3 Aug 2008 22:06:39 -0700 in Wendy7 wrote:
You're getting your USENET via servers provided by Cox Communications. Cox, bless their souls, is still largely a broadcasting a newspaper company. They also have agreements concerning distributing TVs and movies. The companies that pulled or curtailed USENET claiming complying with Cuomo are Time Warner Verizon Sprint Comcast AT&T has also recently pulled service. Time Warner and Comcast both have interests in TV and movie studios. A LOT of the traffic in the binaries newsgroups are TV shows and movies distributed in violation of the license issued by the copyright owners. Time Warner owns a record label. A smaller, but significant chunk of traffic in the binaries newsgroups is unauthorized distribution of music (Nevermind RIAA finally admitted that pirated music is the best advertising they didn't have to pay for). Verizon and AT&T are currently under some pretty nasty negotiations to distribute TV and movies. The folks that own the copyrights on the TV shows and Movies think they can get much better profit it the create an artificial scarcity of the resource. Sprint, well, Sprint just has problems. It is in their interest to stop this traffic. So, when Cuomo gave them an excuse that's even good for murder by an angry mob, they jumped on it. They could have taken the polite approach of only getting rid of the newsgroups that have unauthorized content. This tactic was tried by Universities in the 90s to combat porn. This just lead to porn in non-porn newsgroups and the creation of tools such as cleanfeed to discard articles containing binaries. If you want to blame anyone, first start with yourself. What have you done to discourage the mob mentality that led to a pediatrician in the UK being assaulted by an illiterate mob that thought pediatrician meant pedophile? What have you done to pressure your elected representatives to require a separation between content providers and content carriers? What have you done to pressure the DoJ to start antitrust proceedings against media giants like Time Warner, Fox Broadcasting, and Comcast? Right now you're seeing the fallout from removing large components from a network. The fellow that runs motzarella.org as a hobby currently lacks any peers that can provide binaries, however those peers are okay with distributing the binaries from motzarella.org to their peers. It will improve as time goes by. Some of it will be dropping the old ways and embracing new ways that consume fewer resources. Some of it will be waiting for the network to work out the snarls. -- Chris Dukes "Let all the babies be born. Then let us drown those we do not like." -- G. K. Chesterton. |
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