Newzbin

Newzbin
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Available inEnglish
URL(formerly newzbin.com)
Current statusInactive, closed down on 28 November 2012

Newzbin was a British Usenet indexing website, intended to facilitate access to content on Usenet. The site caused controversy over its stance on copyrighted material. Access to the Newzbin.com website was blocked by BT and Sky in late 2011, following legal action in the UK by Hollywood film studios.[1][2]

The site announced that it had closed down on 28 November 2012.[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference block was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference sky_block was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Piracy site Newzbin2 gives up and closes 15 months after block BBC News, 29 November 2012.