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Wingnut wrote:
ISPs, and I use the term loosely 8^), are increasingly dropping their
newsgroup service, so anybody who doesn't find an independent service is
saying bye bye.

Right. I've recently had several meetings with people from
"content providers" (film companies, basically) who are
interested in getting service providers to deploy technology
to detect protected content on the wire and do one of
several things in response when it's detected. They said
that they basically got Comcast and a few others to drop
Usenet entirely because of the way the binary newsgroups are
being used to transport copyrighted material.
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