Doctor Four
My other vehicle is a TARDIS
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join:2000-09-05
Dallas, TX
 ·AT&T U-Verse
| Fighting child porn, or is it appeasing the MAFIAA?
Seems it is more the latter when all the alt.binary
newsgroups are cut by AOL, AT&T and others. That is
when you consider that a lot of what is on those groups
is copyright infringing content.
And as someone noted in the AT&T Southeast topic on this,
there are a lot of groups outside the alt.binaries
hierarchy that carry child porn. And any binary group
can get hit by it what with Russian spam gangs using it
as a come on to get people to install their malware.
Of course if they were honest about it (too much cost to
maintain multiple GB worth of content a day on their
servers), there might be fewer complaints.
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"The trouble with computers, of course, is that they are very sophisticated idiots." - Doctor Who (from Robot)
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jarthur31
join:2006-04-14
Carlsbad, NM | Call me stupid but I'm still trying to determine what piracy has to do with child porn. |
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NormanS
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join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
 ·Pacific Bell - SBC
| It is about deflecting attention in a manner which makes the corporations look like angels (doing it for the children) instead of devils (caving to MPAA/RIAA pressure, or just the bean counter's concerns with; or both).
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Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum |
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