Major Usenet Provider Shuts Down Following Court Order
Found on Torrentfreak on Sunday, 06 November 2011
The shutdown is the direct and unavoidable outcome of a two-year battle with Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN, which was eventually decided against the Usenet provider. News-Service announced that it will appeal the decision “out of principle” as it threatens the entire 30-year-old Usenet community.
Although the name NSE might not ring a bell with many people, it is the largest usenet provider in Europe and has many high-profile resellers such as Usenext.
Aside from threatening many other Usenet providers, a similar judgement would also mean the end of file-hosting sites such as Megaupload, and other cloud storage services including Dropbox.
I bet they would just love to shut down the whole Internet and go back to the old times where you only had to fight those pesky tapes used for copying. At one point there will be a solution which is immune to takedowns due to its non-central structure of data storage and addressing.