MPA seeks injunction to block Newzbin in UK


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MPA seeks injunction to block Newzbin in UK

article published on 28 June, 2011

Motion Picture Association trying to force BT to block NZB site. The trade group is going to court, applying for an injunction forcing BT to cut off access to Newzbin, a popular Usenet-indexing website. Newzbin hosts NZB files, which can be combined with a newsreader software to locate content on Usenet binary groups. The MPA is targeting BT because it is the largest service provider ... [ read the full article ]

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LordRuss

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28. June 2011 @ 10:41

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I can't speak for the folks in the UK, but I would certainly like to know how this would fair here in the US under the First Amendment. I can only surmise that it wouldn't, given the fact that the MPA is going after 'only' the Brits. Otherwise, I would have figured it would have been here as well.

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smiler123

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28. June 2011 @ 11:24

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