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Originally Posted by AdultKing
You assume way too much, so eager are you to make snide comments that you jump to baseless conclusions.
Firstly, my first exposure to Usenet was in the 80's when I used to manage a UUCP connected news server. Secondly you can drop any number of groups and people will just shift to alternative ones. Thirdly just because one Usenet provider drops a group doesn't guarantee others will and due to the rapid propagation of Usenet posts it's almost impossible to shut down piracy network wide.
So it is you, Notjoe, who has no clue how things work.
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It's not a snide remark. The post I replied to said that it was problematic in preventing piracy on the news groups. The fact is, that it is not. If news servers drop the piracy groups then that is one less provider dishing out pirated content. If uplink servers drop the groups there then all the down linked news servers won't have them either. It's fairly easy to spot the piracy news groups as they, unlike the file hosts that you claim, do have petabytes worth of pirated content inside of them. New groups might appear (which takes a lot of posting to for it to happen) but then they can be dropped easily enough. Also, They're easily found using index websites that create nzbs. They'll always have the latest on which groups have the pirated content in them.
And yet its more thing you're avoiding...A service, and for all intents and purposes, the ultimate piracy file locker system conceived, is "outside the scope" of you.
Talk to me when you actually know what you're doing.