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After Newzbin2 Win, MPA Takes Down Another Usenet Service
Although the ink is barely dry on the order forcing ISP BT to
block the Newzbin2 Usenet indexing site, the MPA isn’t wasting
its momentum. Through its UK proxy the Federation Against
Copyright Theft, Hollywood has taken another Usenet indexing
site offline, and for its owner the situation doesn’t look good.
Although widely condemned by anti-censorship proponents, there
can be little doubt that the MPA win over UK ISP BT, which last
week culminated in the latter being ordered to block Newzbin2
within 14 days, is a historic one.  No other site has ever been
blocked in the UK on copyright grounds before, and based on the
reasoning behind the decision, Newzbin2 won’t be the last
either.  The MPA is now working away in the background to come
to agreements with other UK ISPs so that they too will block
Newzbin2, but the ruling is a powerful tool – do other sites
really want to get beaten over