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Originally Posted by mcmanic
eh?, wasn't that many years back when NTL as it was back then stopped the newsgroups carrying the main warez and pirated materials. Of course they have control!, just seems abit of let's bash a popular site because it's set's an example but don't tell them if your with VM you have free access to what you want via their newsgroup anyway.
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They used to host the Usenet servers themselves and they did remove access to some of the larger binary orientated groups, that didn't mean much because the newest and therefore most popular releases were posted on more obscure groups, such is the nature of Usenet. They farmed out Usenet services to Highwinds and now
probably don't have control over the grouplist. All completely irrelevant to TPB block and there are good reasons why Usenet servers themelves haven't been dragged into the filesharing court battle even though sites which facilitate access to pirate Usenet content have.
p.s. Usenet really shouldn't be openly discussed at all (the first rule of Usenet).