I add one line to my system files and nobody on MSN can connect. No mail, No http, No ftp, No nothin'. If it comes to that, I've talked to many people in the ISP biz that aren't scared of Gates in the least. As for moderated news groups. Somebody moves theirs to pay to play, someone else opens one up for free.
People have a general aversion to paying.
As long as someone will create the group and dedicate resources to it, that's how it will be. Even now, if I see something that would be useful to the Internet, but isn't available yet, you bet I'll help get it created. That's building content without making every last person pay for it. And as long as there are people willing to make info freely available, the pay to play ones will lose on participants and content. This is a fake email address.