Comments on: Verizon Quits Free Usenet Access Sep 30th

By: Anti-Piracy Group to Use Child Porn as Pretext for Filtering

Anti-Piracy Group to Use Child Porn as Pretext for Filtering — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:41:59 +0000

[...] It’s the same sort of tactic it used in the past to convince NY Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to muscle ISPs into discontinuing free Usenet access in order to “shut down major sources of [...]

By: ummm your freakin tarded

ummm your freakin tarded — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:38:50 +0000

oks so the joke has always been with usenet that the first rule of usenet is to not talk of usenet. no the above poster is a complete fool usenet is not loosing in popularity, it is almost completely overun with folks downloading nzb’s i mean come on usenet has not been this popular since i was a sysop and had a windmill system on acorns in the basement. i was at a local bar the other day and a group of frat daddy looking college kids was sitting at a table discussing what the best news reader is. REALLY? usenet has never been this popular! think about revenge of the nerds for a second back in the day only us nerdy tri lambda types were on usenet. now its not just the tri lambdas on usenet, the Alpha Betas are there and Ogre has a problem with a rar file.

By: gabbygalarza

gabbygalarza — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:36:13 +0000

Good luck with that Cat5e

By: How to Download From Newsgroups

How to Download From Newsgroups — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:32:08 +0000

[...] ISPs offer very basic access for free. However, many ISPs in the U.S., such as Verizon, Comcast, Time Warner, and AT&T, have stopped offering any sort of newsgroup or usenet [...]

By: Daily Digest as of 11:15pm for 2009.09.02 -blog.px

Daily Digest as of 11:15pm for 2009.09.02 -blog.px — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:00:48 +0000

[...] google shared Verizon the latest ISP to close free Usenet access. [...]

By: D.AN

D.AN — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:22:28 +0000

Non sequitur, malgre.

By: malcolm hume

malcolm hume — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:13:26 +0000

Usenet has been dying a slow death for years, as the service became little more than a binary dumping ground. NNTP has fewer and fewer users and used more and more bandwidth. I miss the corners of Usenet that still function as user groups, but those are fewer and fewer every month and I understand why ISP’s don’t bother any more.

By: ejonesss

ejonesss — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:55:20 +0000

that is not going to work because people will just start paying for other newsservers who have good privacy policies.

By: DrewWilson

DrewWilson — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:45:29 +0000

I’m just hoping they don’t apply the same ideology to other networks as well. Say, for example, some official thinks BitTorrent is merely a means for distributing the illegal filth, then forcing ISPs to block the protocol.

It’s a long ways off and BitTorrent isn’t a service provided by the ISPs, but we can hope that this “landmark” agreement isn’t a thin wedge to control the packets flowing through the ISPs much more vigerously.