you need to find some nzb sites (like torrrent sites)
cant names them
edit: i'll give you a clue, 2 words in 1 word : nzb and 'neo'
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Newsgroups usage up 42%
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you need to find some nzb sites (like torrrent sites)
cant names them
edit: i'll give you a clue, 2 words in 1 word : nzb and 'neo'
you need to find some nzb sites (like torrrent sites)
cant names them
edit: i'll give you a clue, 2 words in 1 word : nzb and 'neo'
I know that, that's the easy bit
.....Browsing newsgroups is for noobs
It isn't, i like to browse for stuff that i otherwise wouldn't search for.
Do you know how many articles there are on usenet?
It'll be quite impossible to find something useful by browsing through a group.
Possibly so. However, personally I would feel somewhat uneasy about handing my credit card details to someone in lawless Russia - just personal preference
iirc astraweb are based in Pennsylvania, USA.
What do you mean?
Johnny's first post.
Showing his view that he would like to keep them from mainstream.
Johnnys second post , a blatant false negative about newsgroups and assuring the user should stay with rapidshare.
You're post, You seem to read his post about it taking longer and having half as much stuff as a truth and also a benefit and then proceed to add on another true benefit about use net (although iirc you can do with with RS too).
Hence you fail at comprehension.
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All this makes me think of cassete tapes. Biggest form or way that music was rip back in the day, yet no fuss was made and imo had the same impact p2p have today.
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I don't imagine you have any actual evidence to support your confident assertion that petrol pump attendants are more likely fraudulently to use my credit card than some unknown guys in Russia running a server that stores pirated games, software, music, videos, etc.?
It is pretty academic anyway since I can't recall the last time I handed my credit card over to a petrol pump attendant or anyone else for that matter; personally I use "chip & pin".
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...laborate-petrol-station-credit-card-scam.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/money/consumer_affairs/article1400176.ece
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6578595.stm
http://www.heraldscotland.com/police-break-pound-1m-credit-card-fraud-linked-to-terrorism-1.878983
they use a camera to watch you put your pin in or use a modified machine that just records your pin number aswell as card details cashier never has to touch it.
Where do you keep getting this from?
Newsgroup companies are perfectly legal outfits ran in the uk, America and most of Europe.
You know where large amounts of this "pirate data" is stored?
In large server farms in the uk/Europe/usa and you chose the one best for your location.
More importantly this data is also stored on news server ran by your isp and every other isp out there.
If it was all stored in Russia you'd get horrific speeds.
There was a huge fuss about home copying, it is just that the message is now easier to get across due to 'new' media such as the web. Plus, it is now easier and quicker to get a whole album. Under a minute for a CD? No problem! Home cassette recording was largely a 1:1 ratio with regards to speed, unless you had that 'fast dub' button. However, that was a bit hit-and-miss with games as they could be a bit picky.
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If im not mistaken, through my use of newsgroups.. Isnt SSL encrypted so they dont know what you are downloading? It just comes back as though your browsing the net or something?
I've used newsgroups for around 4-5 years, and I consider £9 a month a better option for max downloads and more content than using crappy p2p sites that just leach more upload than download.
Threats around legalisations and copywrite dont really scare many, because like me, they have been using the internet since the times of napster and have never had a knock on the door yet.
Trouble with most corperations is that who wants to pay £200 for an operating system you can get online for free? the price gap is just obsurd. its like going from one shop and next door and seeing a bargain on the same item, you'd choose the cheaper one. Now if it was somewhere inbetween, you might think ahh well, why not?
I wouldnt mind paying money for a monthly choice, its just the fact of paying £3 for a song ill get bored of after a few listens, or I can view on youtube at any time.
I've used newsgroups for around 4-5 years, and I consider £9 a month a better option for max downloads and more content than using crappy p2p sites that just leach more upload than download.
Threats around legalisations and copywrite dont really scare many, because like me, they have been using the internet since the times of napster and have never had a knock on the door yet.
Trouble with most corperations is that who wants to pay £200 for an operating system you can get online for free? the price gap is just obsurd. its like going from one shop and next door and seeing a bargain on the same item, you'd choose the cheaper one. Now if it was somewhere inbetween, you might think ahh well, why not?
I wouldnt mind paying money for a monthly choice, its just the fact of paying £3 for a song ill get bored of after a few listens, or I can view on youtube at any time.
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There are around 10 groups I browse every day and it's how I find stuff that others don't know about.
You can get it for £7
Windows 7 was £45 at first preorder, then up to about £75 after that deal ran out.
Very reasonably priced for what you get no reason to pirate it.
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You pay £9 per month in order to avoid paying £200 for an OS
Is it possible that you could find somewhere that charges less than £200 for Windows or even consider using Linux which would cost you nothing at all?