up remains - Carruthers now records under the name Freelovebabies, Mattock played for a spell in The Breeders (and later Lupine Howl), Refoy formed Slipstream and Radley married Richard Ashcroft of The Verve, and Gregg Hale left to band in 1999. A later cohort of Spiritualized backing musicians formed Lupine Howl following summary dismissal by Pierce.Today, UK ISP BT and representatives from the MPA will appear at the High Court to thrash out the final stage of the ground-breaking web-blocking case against Newzbin2. But in a surprise last-minute move, a David and Goliath battle seems to be on the cards. A Newzbin2 user has stepped up to defend his site by intervening in the blocking process, and is reportedly already being bullied by his Hollywood opponents with threats of bankruptcy.

Following a High Court battle earlier this year, Justice Arnold sided with the MPA and ordered ISP BT to block Usenet indexing site Newzbin2.

The case was brought against BT by Twentieth Century Fox and five other major Hollywood film studios who had demanded that Newzbin2 should be stopped from providing links to unauthorized content.

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