New York - Following similar actions taken against other broadband providers, New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has sent a letter to Comcast (NASD: CMCSA), the nation's second-largest broadband firm, threatening legal action if it does not agree to take specific steps to block child pornography. The previous letters have resulted in ISP's including Time Warner Cable, Verizon, AT&T and Sprint Nextel blocking access to all or some newsgroups on Usenet -- a pre-Web online forum that hosts tens of thousands of discussions groups, a handful of which have been used to host child porn images.

Sacramento, Calif. - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. on Friday asked California's Internet service providers to follow the lead of Verizon, Time Warner Cable and Sprint by "removing child pornography from existing servers and blocking channels" that disseminate the illegal material. Earlier this month, the three ISPs announced an agreement with New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, under which they would eliminate access to child pornography newsgroups on Usenet, and also purge any existing child pornography on their servers.

New York - The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Usenet.com, a company that redistributes traffic from the Usenet global message-board network.