Replying To: Roadrunner Filters Usenet Posts By Jeff Foster, Section UnFairUse Posted on Wed Nov 19, 2003 at 01:40:31 PM PDT Censorship -- Service Outage -- Piracy Police According to The Register and newsgroup postings, the Roadrunner cable modem service is now filtering out all newsgroup messages that are over 10 MB in size, presumably to stop the distribution of Hollywood movies over Usenet. Roadrunner also appears to be filtering MP3 music files by some other means, as MP3's are too small to filter out by file size. This has resulted in over 90 percent of newsgroups being “incomplete” -- meaning that most newsgroups will be missing messages -- rendering them unreadable. The filtering software Roadrunner uses has no way of telling if a movie or music file is a legitimate copy or not. Sources:Published Reports, Newsgroup Postings Post Comment You are not logged in. If you don't have a user account yet, by all means go make one! If you do have one, you can post as "yourself" by filling in your nickname and password below. Otherwise, your comment will be posted as Anonymous User. Create Account Nickname: Password: Post Comment: Post your comment below and then please answer the security question. I apologize for the inconvenience, but it does help deter spammers. -- Ed Foster Subject: Comment: To post your comment, please answer the following security question: Which of the following is a color? Mutt, Quince, Mazda, Corgi, Aqua, MG HTML Formatted Plain Text Auto Format Allowed HTML: <A [HREF] [NAME]> <DT> <TT></TT> <OL></OL> <CITE></CITE> <CODE></CODE> <I></I> <UL></UL> <BR> <STRONG></STRONG> <BLOCKQUOTE [TYPE]></BLOCKQUOTE> <DD> <EM></EM> <P> <B></B> <LI> <DL></DL>

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