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Originally Posted by madtwin
That's why Usenet is being used for much worse and shady things than piracy... Sad but true.
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What you wrote before this was true, but that is simply not true, except insofar as "shady" things exist everywhere. ISPs dropped Usenet for one reason only:
cost. Most people don't even have a clue what it is, let alone use it, therefore the hardware and admin costs are just not worth it. ISPs either outsource to Usenet Service Providers (USPs), like Giganews or Highwinds, to provide a limited feed to customers, or they don't provide any at all.
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Originally Posted by pompousjohn
Additionally, as usenet servers fill up older stuff is pushed out
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Used to be true. Hasn't been true for a long time. Usenet servers have years of binary retention, and even more years of text. In fact I'm not even sure some even bother expiring articles any more.
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I have never seen anything over a year old download correctly.
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I download Linux ISOs all the time that are over a year old.
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Originally Posted by awwhoez
leave usenet alone its old
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Originally Posted by flashfire
If someone is savy enough for usenet they are not out buying porn memberships fyi
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QFT.
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Originally Posted by venus
several people touched on it already, but overall you are not going to get it removed, like others said, its the way usenet is. As soon as its uploaded, its on thousands of usenet servers.
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True in theory but there are in fact very few major USPs that can handle binaries.
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Anyways, usenet was once reat for advertising your site
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AKA spamming. So nobody should expect Usenet users, who have had to put up with porn spam in virtually every group for over 15 years, to give a single fuck about pornographers losing theoretical money. Especially as porn was free on Usenet long before anyone ever decided to sell it on the web. In any case, porn content is a drop in the ocean compared to non-porn on Usenet.
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Originally Posted by tammix
I made a quick poll with my nephew´s friends this weekend and asked if they know usenet and went ""WTF is that??""
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That has been true since at least as far back as the mid/late 90s.
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meanwhile be realistic: for now the traditional Usenet is not as alive as it was years ago but its good to see that some people are still loyal to Usenet
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Predictions of the "death of Usenet" have been a standing joke on Usenet itself since the 90s. For text discussion it isn't what it used to be (though there are still many great newsgroups outside of alt.*) but then neither is the web, since FB seems to be killing everything in its path.