This was worth taking a few seconds to post.
I just got this notice from my ISP.
On June 24, 2008, we will be modifying our Newsgroup offerings to only offer groups in the Big-8 Newsgroup hierarchies, which are listed below. The 0.verizon.* newsgroup hierarchy will also continue to be available. Users will not be able to post or download from any other newsgroups using our Newsgroup service.
comp.*
humanities.*
misc.*
news.*
rec.*
sci.*
soc.*
talk.*
This means that the entire *alt. hierarchy will disappear. Music, movies, TV, apps, all gone……
They say the reason is in response to political strong-arming by New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. Ya see Cuomo claimed that his office found child porn on 88 newsgroups………..out of over 100,000.
Of course there is also massive amounts of copyrighted data there (as well as lots of honest discussion).
But, who’s gonna argue with getting rid of child porn?
*sigh* Now back to work.