Verizon to Block Access to Whole Usenet Verizon的攔截存取整個的Usenet
Monday, June 16th, 2008 週一, 2008年6月16日Verizon has described the details of the agreement it and other ISPs signed last week to block access to Usenet groups that have been caught trafficking child pornography . Verizon已經描述了協議細節,它和其他互聯網服務供應商簽署了上週攔截存取Usenet群組已被販賣兒童色情製品問題 。 But instead of just blocking a few of the usenet groups that had been implicitly named they decided to block all of the groups.但不是只封鎖數的Usenet群組已含蓄地命名,他們決定來阻止所有的群體。
Usenet is a pre-Web technology that, for most of its history, relied on companies, Internet service providers, and universities to operate servers that would exchange messages posted by their users.新聞組是一個預先Web技術,對於它的大部分歷史,依賴於公司,互聯網服務供應商,和大學運作的服務器上,將互相交流信息的發布他們的用戶。 Each server operator can choose what newsgroups they wish to offer.每台服務器的操作人員也可以選擇什麼新聞,他們想提供。 Today, some companies like Supernews, Giganews, and Usenet.com offer newsgroup access for a fee.今天,一些公司一樣, supernews , giganews , usenet.com提供新聞准入費用。
‘No law requires Verizon to do this. '沒有法律規定的Verizon做到這一點。 Instead, the company (and, to varying extents, Time Warner Cable and Sprint) agreed to restrictions on Usenet in response to political strong-arming by New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo , a Democrat.相反,該公司(和,在不同程度上,時代華納有線和Sprint )同意的限制,新聞組在回應政治強武裝,由紐約州總檢察長鄭家富cuomo ,一名民主黨人。 Cuomo claimed that his office found child porn on 88 newsgroups — out of roughly 100,000 newsgroups that exist.’ cuomo聲稱,他的辦公室發現的兒童色情對88新聞-走出大約1 00000新聞存在的。
The ISPs bargained with Cuomo’s office and came to an agreement in which each would pay $1.125 million to the Attorney General’s office and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children to fund further efforts.互聯網服務供應商討價還價cuomo的辦公室和前來一項協議,其中每個將支付一一二五〇 〇 〇美元向總檢察長辦公室和國家中心為失踪及被剝削兒童基金,以進一步努力。
The only Usenet newsgroups that Verizon will continue to offer customers are the comp.*, misc.*, news.*, rec.*, sci.*, soc.*, and talk.* hierarchies.唯一的Usenet新聞組稱, Verizon將繼續為客戶提供是可比.* ,雜項.* ,新聞.* ,建議.* ,工商局局長.* , SoC的.* ,並談*等級。 Customers will continue to be able to connect to other non-Verizon Usenet servers; no blocking is taking place.客戶將繼續無法連接到其他非Verizon的新聞組服務器;沒有阻止正在發生的。
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