Remember when we reported that Google Groups seems to have seen a visibility boost in Google Search, which resulted in a lot of spammy and sometimes dangerous information showing up in Google's search ...

An announcement this week by New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo that three Internet service providers would "block" sources of child porn has caused a surprising amount of confusion. First, ...

Usenet is a very old (pre-World Wide Web) networking system that I’ve never actually used, but this explanation on Reddit helped me better understand how it works. “Much of the content being ...

Verizon has released details of the agreement it and other ISPs signed last week to block access to Usenet groups that have been caught trafficking child pornography. Instead of simply blocking the ...

The record industry has won another copyright lawsuit against a Web company that offered users access to pirated music files. This victory, against Usenet.com -- which offered paid subscribers access ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Researchers at Microsoft are working on technology that makes it easier to navigate Usenet news groups and could eventually help clear clutter in e-mail inboxes, a Microsoft ...

Over the last few years, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and other organizations looking to eliminate the illegal swapping of digital media files have attacked the problem through ...

In the wake of its victory in the first file-sharing case to go to trial, the RIAA has moved on to its next target: the nefarious home of millions of illicit files, Usenet. Yesterday, a consortium of ...