Usenet

[Jeffrey Watts]

Have you ever heard of Bittorrent?  You can get what you want from
there.  Bittorrent is the modern replacement for USENET NEWS (for
Warez, that is).  That's how I watch my Grand Sumo Tournaments.

As far as the censorship angle goes, I think that's a minor
consideration.  I think the major one being the huge amount of space
and bandwidth USENET NEWS uses in relation to the small number of
users.

Jeffrey.

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Jonathan Hutchins
<hutchins at tarcanfel.org> wrote:
> Something nobody's mentioned here, given that most of our distinguished
> contributors are admittedly ignorant of what _is_ on Usenet news groups, is
> the fact that many of them carry binary copies of music and video.  One can
> pull whole TV series off the news groups.  Time Warner's main business is NOT
> providing internet service.  It is "intelectual property" - a market they
> desperately want to control.
>
> I can get British TV series off of Usenet that I can't get through BBC America
> or other "legitimate" sources, and I can get them without them having been
> edited, dumbed-down and censored (supposedly to better appeal to American
> tastes).
>
> We tend to think censorship goes one way, that it's material from the U.S.
> that gets censored for other countries.  Nothing could be further from the
> truth.


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