The Newzbin saga has been raging for over a year now, with big media first managing to sue the original Newzbin out of existence, and then winning a court order to block the revived Newzbin2 off the face of the planet. But now the hackers behind Newzbin2 have thrown in the towel. The original Usenet indexer that brought binaries into the mainstream, is no more. Read More >>
Featured comment by warriorscot:
"This is unfortunate but there are other sites out there that are more popular. They had the whole "we invented the nzb" thing going but others have co..." More »
The long-running saga of the war on file-sharing site The Pirate Bay has taken a sad new legal turn, with the UK's High Court ruling, as previously expected, that our ISPs are now obliged to restrict access to the huge torrent specialist. Read More >>
Featured comment by Harry:
"If we just change our DNS servers from those of our ISP to Google's or OpenDNS wont that just render the block pointless.
Failing that a simple bookm..." More »
The UK seems like the land of opportunity for the creative industry right now. The latest name on the chopping block of the legally dubious blockade saga is The Pirate Bay. The high court has ruled what we all knew already, TPB unlawfully shares copyrighted music. Read More >>
Featured comment by Djdat:
"You guys are joking, You cant stop torrents. Tribler will take over and you cannot stop that. Google it. It's the future, So shutdown whatever you wan..." More »
I’m not quite sure how this is still happening given the recent EU rulings deeming the practice of forced blockage illegal, but TalkTalk has now been court ordered to rub Newsbin2 off the map. Read More >>
Featured comment by g3f:
"Blocking a site that just indexes primarily copyrighted stuff is a lot different to blocking a Usenet provider.
Its a futile gesture anyway, its ea..." More »
That messy court ordered website blocking business is continuing unabated, with Sky being the latest to be strong-armed into blockade of Newsbin2. It was asked "nicely" by the Motion Picture Association last month, and despite the EU ruling that forcing ISPs to filter sites for piracy is illegal, it's now come back with a court order. Read More >>
The European Court of Justice has rulled that ISPs can't be forced into filtering traffic for the purpose of copyright protection, which may impact on the recent court orders forcing BT to filter out Newzbin and The Pirate Bay. Read More >>
Featured comment by Tokath:
"For once, the EU does something that benefits me! Horrah! Horrah I say for the European Court of Justice!
Now to give my job to a polish man! Chop..." More »
We could well be about to see a blanket ban on easy access to usenet archive site Newzbin, with the Motion Picture Association now asking another two UK ISPs to restrict access to the popular download resource. Read More >>
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. Read More >>
Featured comment by Darrell Jones:
"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 pu..." More »
The high court has broken ground in the UK, with a first-of-its-kind copyright ruling ordering BT to block Newzbin2 within 14 days. The ruling follows the request of a coalition of Hollywood studios and could set a precedent leading to more filesharing clampdowns. Read More >>
Featured comment by arcanine:
"The problem here is that it's being filtered through CleanFeed, filtering technology that BT developed for the IWF to block child pornography, 95% of ..." More »
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