Newsoo The French usenet group got raided and shut down by the police.
This may be just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to actions against “newsgroups”. The main attention nowadays are the peer to peer sharing webpages like thepiratebay or KickAssTorrents, but the old news groups stayed in silence on the background, surviving all the persecution that major sharing webpages have seen.

Keep reading the text here:
http://www.securityfreak.info/news/technology-news/usenet-group-newsoo-got-raided-police-france/#more-1813