to much for nothing

[moysatos]

i dont understand why you should pay for something you can find for free for speed so what ok download a movie from usenet in 2 hours from p2p 3 hours dont understand whats the big differnce so i have 10mbit line i can downlaod an average 60 gb a day i have to sell my house so i can downlaod 1.8tb a month from usenet so nothanks

[GuyFawks]

You don't have to pay. My ISP has a very good Usenet server. People just pay for the security, speed and retention rates if they cannot get it.

[hawkburn]

I pay $30/month for SSL unlimited usenet. But if I didn't have it, I still wouldn't be able to make house payments. :)

I just like the simplicity, not to mention the fact that it's about 100x safer than using BitTorrent, considering I live in the US.

[Kythe]

Tons safer and tons faster. And even though the content can't match eMule (for example), it's very, very good. Add in requests, and there's not much that's not available.

And if $30 will keep you from making your house payment, your first priority probably shouldn't be broadband internet service in the first place.

[drtoker]

as stated above, its cheap (mine is like 9 bucks) and most isp's offer some sort of news group access (comcast offers 1gb/month per email address from their mail server)

Helps with ratios too, dl from newsgroups and seed elsewhere.