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Copyright Demands Push Largest European Usenet Provider Permanently Offline

Posted by timothy on from the son-what-does-alt-dot-binary-mean? dept.

First time accepted submitter jonathan1979 writes "Dutch anti-piracy authority BREIN has caused the largest European usenet provider, News-Service.com, to immediately terminate its services as they felt they could not live up to the court order served earlier."

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  1. Re:power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    And then they will be China's lapdogs...

    Oh shit, does this mean that they're going to eat us then?

  2. Re:It's sad how USENET has changed by misexistentialist · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why aren't you blaming the hard drive companies? Everything was better when people only had 1.44 MB of storage!