ISPs and Usenet, part 94

Sunda writes: "An Norwegian ISP, Tele2, has been fined 350,000 Nkr (near 40,000 US $) after beeing held responsible by Norwegian Police for child porn beeing accesible through their News servers. In a statement Okokrim (the part of norwegian police dealing with computer crime) says that the case is made more serious by the fact that child porn has been accessible through the news servers for a longer period of time (they've been working on this for more than a year). Okokrim claims that "...this could have been prevented by internal control at Tele2". Tele2's lawyer Erling Lyngtveit argues that controlling all material running through their news servers would be an almost impossible task. He further says that Tele2 feel betrayed by the police since they for a long time have cooporated with both police authoritys and volunteer organisations to prevent the spreading of child porn through the internet. Okokrim, on the other hand, have not reported their findings of child pornography to Tele2. Lyngtveit says that if Okokrim had made Tele2 aware of their findings, the company would have been more than willing to remove the material and help tracking the users who's posted the material. Tele2 have refused to pay the fine, and the case will now be brought to court."