What happened to copyright cancels?
Copyright cancels were a rarely-used type of third-party cancel where messages are cancelled for being copyright violations. The idea behind the cancels was to stop the violations from spreading; cancels are fairly ineffective in this respect, however, because not all sites honor cancels. This ineffectiveness, combined with a desire by most news administrators to stay out of legal matters, was enough to declare the consensus regarding copyright cancels void. The only remedy for copyright violations on Usenet has again become the real-world legal system.
