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BT’s efforts to stop users accessing the Newzbin usenet archive doesn’t appear to be working, thanks to a combination of Newzbin’s own bypassing app and the general technical awareness of those who enjoy the internet’s last great untamed wilderness.
BT was recently ordered to adapt its Cleanfeed child porn filtering software to also block traffic to Newzbin due to piracy concerns, with the block apparently going into place on November 2nd. However, we can still access it here, today, without resorting to using Newzbin’s traffic-routing tool.
Also, Newzbin itself claims that 93.5 per cent of its active UK users have downloaded the app in preparation for the block, which, if it ever does start working, should ensure they can still queue up stacks of NZB downloads without worry.
It’s always been doomed to failure anyway. Accessing usenet is one of the more hardcore internet activities, requiring quite a bit more technical knowledge than staring at Facebook all day. The notion that Newzbin users would simply shrug and give up at the first sign of trouble is ridiculous. [Torrentfreak via BBC]
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Always an impractical idea its not even the most popular site of its kind. All these fancy new changes have done is make it a pain to use some of the file hosting websites that now pop up with the occasional “sorry you can’t use the site because you are british”.
As long as newzbin keeps hogging the headlines then the torrent site I use will be left alone that much longer. Huzzah.
So, since this whole shebang has had no effect on people using Newzbin all that Hollywood and BT have done is provided them with a shit-ton of free publicity meaning more people will go there. Another example of old media not understanding new media.