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Roadrunner Filters Usenet Posts
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By Jeff Foster, Section UnFairUse
Posted on Wed Nov 19, 2003 at 01:40:31 PM PDT
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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
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