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  • 30-11-2007 4:19pm
    #1
    SlinkyToo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 226 ✭✭


    Kinda curious on this one.

    How many people actively use newsgroups for downloading their internet goodness and continually have a chuckle about all the silly billies still using torrents?

    Is this the last unspoken bastion of free download expression.

    Discuss.


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  • #2
    Spud83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,608 ✭✭✭Spud83


    SlinkyToo wrote: »
    Kinda curious on this one.

    How many people actively use newsgroups for downloading their internet goodness and continually have a chuckle about all the silly billies still using torrents?

    With the constant barrage of piracy crackdown this seems to be the last unspoken bastion of free download expression.

    Discuss.

    I presume you are talking about legal downloads off course. Others wise...In before lock.


  • #3
    Procasinator
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,311 ✭✭✭Procasinator


    While definitely less policed, I wouldn't say unspoken of. The *AA's (RIAA, MPAA, etc, etc) are targeting these piracy havens too, for instance:

    http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2150929/mpaa-takes-piracy-fight
    http://www.news.com/2100-1030_3-6042739.html
    http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/piracy/59875.html

    I also wouldn't say "last unspoken", because there are more "bastion of free download expression" (read: piracy :P), such as IRC.

    I can see this thread being canned, considering the way the question is posed: you are pretty much asking do you pirate. I haven't read the charter.. I mean, eh, I have it learned inside out... but I would venture that piracy is a controversial topic.


  • #4
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Don't you know that piracy fuels terrorism, and pirates, and steals from old people, makes baby jesus cry and laughs at the disabled?


  • #5
    SlinkyToo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 226 ✭✭SlinkyToo


    Interesting how some read piracy into this question. There are plenty of legal things available.


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    SlinkyToo wrote: »
    Interesting how some read piracy into this question. There are plenty of legal things available.

    Such as?


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  • #7
    SlinkyToo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 226 ✭✭SlinkyToo


    Old time radio broadcasts, out of copyright music, wallpapers. Companies such as microsoft, adobe and major component firms offer newsgroups.


  • #8
    RE*AC*TOR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭RE*AC*TOR


    SlinkyToo wrote: »
    Interesting how some read piracy into this question.

    Perhaps that's because you used the word "piracy" in your original post?


  • #9
    SlinkyToo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 226 ✭✭SlinkyToo


    Did I?


  • #10
    johnp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 736 ✭✭✭johnp


    How free?
    I searched for News Servers previously and they all require subscriptions and a lot have some sort of d/l limit.


  • #11
    SlinkyToo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 226 ✭✭SlinkyToo


    JohnP continue to think like this, it is one of the great things that keeps all the leecher off it, that it seems to complicated.


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  • #12
    Procasinator
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,311 ✭✭✭Procasinator


    SlinkyToo wrote: »
    Did I?

    I hope to God you are joking. Put in a smilie!!:p

    Either way, pwnd!


  • #13
    johnp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 736 ✭✭✭johnp


    SlinkyToo wrote: »
    JohnP continue to think like this, it is one of the great things that keeps all the leecher off it, that it seems to complicated.

    Ok. Ta for the help :rolleyes:


  • #14
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    SlinkyToo wrote: »
    Did I?

    Edited one minute after this. Have you no shame?


  • #15
    ShawnRaven
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,602 ✭✭✭✭ShawnRaven


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Such as?

    Linux distros and music by unsigned bands for a start.
    VR!


  • #16
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Keep it legal, folks.


  • #17
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    Er, what exactly are newsgroups? And why would they be superior to torrents?


  • #18
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Ok. That's enough.
    Just use google or wikipedia.


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