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Warez, and porn. Neither of which are easy to defend when an ISP is looking to address the costs of a Usenet feed. Towards the end, we had close to 100 Mbps f
by rootusrootus 3y ago
Warez, and porn. Neither of which are easy to defend when an ISP is looking to address the costs of a Usenet feed. Towards the end, we had close to 100 Mbps full time just for the feed, as I recall. Then we outsourced it to cut that cost. But then management decided none of our customers needed alt.binaries and we dropped it altogether. The effect on churn was negligible.
- badcppdev 3y agoTotally agree with this. Why would any commercial ISP want to offer this as a service? There was very little upside and massive potential liabilities because they were storing and supplying unmoderated content that in the very best case was pirated music and movies.