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Originally Posted by HarryT
The purpose of this block is to prevent "the man in the street" from accessing the site, not the dedicated cyber-criminal. Of course the block can be overcome - probably by something as simple as using a VPN, but the average Internet user isn't going to use such tools. There's a big difference between coming across a criminal site inadvertently and deliberately setting out to find it; this block is intended to address the former, not the latter.
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My understanding is that nzb2 was a private subscription site by invite only. Usenet has never really been a "man in the street" proposition, certainly not now that most ISPs have switched off their news servers. And nzb files didn't change that.
The big torrent sites are where man in the street types will go for their downloads, and it wasn't until they came online that you started to see people at car boots selling dodgy DVDs. That's why so far most of the action has been against torrent sites.
But other than a few that closed down voluntarily under threat, they haven't had much luck against those. So setting a precedent linking some tiny site hardly anyone cares about with child porn is a pretty big scalp.