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Re:Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros by __turbobrew__ on Monday December 08, 2025 @11:12PM (#46201153)
You raise a good point, addictive technology is not necessarily for profit. The difference is that being addicted to a decentralized technology means that no one actor can control you. Usenet was a distributed system with a distributed network of control.

The analog I would say is being addicted to Chess, which is decentralized activity.

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Re:Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros by hollerith on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @09:30AM (#46218099)
The fact that it was a distributed system, impossible for any single entity to control, didn't AFAICT ameliorate or moderate the intensity or the duration of my compulsive over-consumption of Usenet.
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