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Film Studios Seeking Complete Block of Newzbin2 in the UK

Posted by Unknown on from the tunisia-land-of-the-free dept.

superglaze writes "Having got BT, one of the biggest ISPs in the UK, to block the Newzbin2 Usenet site, the Motion Picture Association is now trying to get the same result from all the other major service providers in the country. As this is likely to go through, it won't be long before most people in the UK will be unable to visit file-sharing sites at all, without using a proxy, VPN, or special client."

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  1. Re:They can block all they want by xaxa · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I also don't understand why they think you'll consume an entire litre of fizzy drink during a single movie.

    American influence, I think. I don't remember much from my single trip to the cinema in the USA, many years ago, except that the staff wondered why the British children didn't want any food or drink. We lasted the duration of Finding Nemo with no ill effects, and without consuming 175% of a child's RDA of sugar in a single drink (figure for a supersized "42 oz" (1.25L) coke).

    At McDonalds (figures from the websites):
    - A "large" drink in the UK is 0.5L, a "medium" about 0.4L, a "small" 0.25L (Germany has the same sizes).
    - A "large" drink in the US is 0.95L, a "medium" is 0.62L, a "small" 0.47L, and a "child" 0.35L.

    The US "child" drink, the smallest available, is about the same as a UK/German "medium".