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This has to be a joke, surely? A good example of the Tragedy of the Commons... As ProfessorGuy succinctly commented: > Why not an article on how you can get a
by bb101 10y ago
This has to be a joke, surely? A good example of the Tragedy of the Commons...
As ProfessorGuy succinctly commented:
> Why not an article on how you can get a bed for yourself in the local hospital so you won't have to pay rent? Hey, if they're going to build a public institution like a bunch of suckers, they deserve to be taken advantage of!
- wowtip 10y agoThis is why we can't have nice things...
- aw3c2 10y agoThis would be a drop in the bucket compared to the terabytes of warez uploaded daily. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet#Usenet_traffic_changes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet#Usenet_traffic_changes
- WillPostForFood 10y agoWhile there are different, and maybe bigger ethical issues there, at least it is using the system as designed.
- arjie 10y agoAmusingly, there's alt.binaries.backup https://www.binsearch.info/browse.php?server=2&bg=alt.binaries.backup https://www.binsearch.info/browse.php?server=2&bg=alt.binari.... I found out about its existence through the following two earlier threads regarding this approach: https://newsgroupdirect.com/blog/2012/04/07/usenet-for-file-backups/ https://newsgroupdirect.com/blog/2012/04/07/usenet-for-file-... https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/non-scalable-anti-social-backup-scheme-robert-krten https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/non-scalable-anti-social-back... Does anyone know what the deal with alt.binaries.backup is? Why would anyone mirror?