Re:Young File-Sharers Respond To Tough Laws By Buying A VPN
by moron on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @10:30AM
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If you want to pay to improve your piracy experience, Usenet is the way to go. For about $20 a month you can get unlimited downloads of whatever, as fast as your home connection can handle, non-peer-to-peer. It's not as general a solution as VPN, but it's kind of amazing to me that Usenet doesn't get more attention, at least if VPNs are now starting to.
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Re:Young File-Sharers Respond To Tough Laws By Buying A VPN
by jaredsohn on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @01:49PM
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> it's kind of amazing to me that Usenet doesn't get more attention
Perhaps because the saying "the first rule of Usenet is that you don't talk about Usenet" has helped prevent it from going viral.
Re:Young File-Sharers Respond To Tough Laws By Buying A VPN
by rblatz on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @11:15AM
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I know Astraweb and others charge less. I agree, it's significantly cheaper and easier to use Usenet. Plus I believe it to be more legal, since you aren't actually sharing copywrited material. Just downloading it, and I don't believe anyone has been sued for just downloading.