I found about Usenet and the sort of “hype” relative to it and I wonder some stuff.

Maybe I’m a bit old school but is this process not against the spirit of piracy,

  • be generous to share
  • fight against censorship and DCMA takedown
  • work in a decentralized way

Just wondered it, if someone wants to give his opinion

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    3 days ago

    I found about Usenet and the sort of “hype” relative to it and I wonder some stuff.

    Usenet’s been around in its current form since 1987! The problem for pirates is finding decent providers who serve binaries. I used to use Easynews as they had great retention and they seem to still be around.

    Usenet is decentralised, but - as mentioned elsewhere - relies on a handful of providers to service the binary groups.