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Looked like usenet basically died earlier this year when take down notices went wild, thereby forcing people to torrent with VPN or seed boxes.
 
Doppel said:
Looked like usenet basically died earlier this year when take down notices went wild, thereby forcing people to torrent with VPN or seed boxes.
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Not even close. Uploaders are fighting back!

There are plenty of European newsgroup providers who take a while to remove articles and one I know of don't even do it.
 
I have a useless as hell block from astraweb. I used maybe 1gb out of 1tb. Everything is passworded or broken. Pars do not work.
 
That's the trouble with Usenet. To many goddamn broken files from DMCA take down requests. Totally worthless service. Torrents are where it's at.
 
I have a UsenetServer account and download a few albums every month. Well worth the $10 I pay. Haven't noticed many problems the last couple of years with incomplete postings, and their retention in many binary groups is now a couple of years.
 
Carson Dyle said:
I have a UsenetServer account and download a few albums every month. Well worth the $10 I pay. Haven't noticed many problems the last couple of years with incomplete postings, and their retention in many binary groups is now a couple of years.
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Actually retention now is about 5 years.
 
pcslookout said:
Not even close. Uploaders are fighting back!

There are plenty of European newsgroup providers who take a while to remove articles and one I know of don't even do it.
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Well in the US it certainly appears dead. Must be tough being a provider in the current climate. I bet subscription rates have plummeted.
 
It seems that the newsgroup indexes have gone underground, with lots of small tight-knit private communities trading encrypted files.

Just doing random usenet browsing there are literally billions of files with randomly generated names holding encrypted RAR files. I'm guessing that the overwhelming majority of these are pirate material.

However, I was, for a bit, working on a usenet data backup program. It would take your files compress, encrypt, PAR and then upload to usenet, as a ghetto cloud backup system. Just remember what you called the files and what the password was.

I used it a couple of times to broadcast a bunch of home movies to friends, where the file sizes were excessive for a drop-box, and various people had unreliable connections and were finding it difficult to download.

I don't really have much use for usenet these days. However, I used to use a dutch provide called extremeusenet and still have some pre-paid time remaining on the account. I used to share an account with a bunch of family/friends, as this provider allowed unlimited account sharing, subject only to the speed limit specified in your account.
 
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Mark R said:
It seems that the newsgroup indexes have gone underground, with lots of small tight-knit private communities trading encrypted files.

Just doing random usenet browsing there are literally billions of files with randomly generated names holding encrypted RAR files. I'm guessing that the overwhelming majority of these are pirate material.

However, I was, for a bit, working on a usenet data backup program. It would take your files compress, encrypt, PAR and then upload to usenet, as a ghetto cloud backup system. Just remember what you called the files and what the password was.

I used it a couple of times to broadcast a bunch of home movies to friends, where the file sizes were excessive for a drop-box, and various people had unreliable connections and were finding it difficult to download.
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Well yeah. Uploaders are fighting back! There even program created for uploaders that do this!

Luckily my NZB client can download, repair, and extract these fine for now. Not all can though.

All I will say is SABnzbd is one for now but I don't use it at this time I use to a long time ago. Best free one there is. Most people seem to use Newsleecher or Grabit. Though those are more newsgroup clients sense they can download headers too if need be.
 
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