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Usenet was basically the last bastion of relatively open to the public (but hidden by being obscure) piracy, but over the last couple of years even Usenet has b
by georgemcbay 12y ago
Usenet was basically the last bastion of relatively open to the public (but hidden by being obscure) piracy, but over the last couple of years even Usenet has been largely neutered by automatic DMCA requests, at least as it pertains to US-based providers.
- VLM 12y ago"has been largely neutered by automatic DMCA requests" For top 40 pop music and hollywood movies released within maybe 6 months of todays date. For the rest of the cultural universe, no not really.
- georgemcbay 12y agoAlso, HBO TV series, which is all.. er "my friend"... cares about, since HBO refuses to offer "my friend" any way to pay for their content that doesn't involve getting a full-blown oligopoly-supporting cable TV subscription (while also not putting much of their content on alt services like Amazon Prime streaming for months to a year after initial air date).
- Fjolsvith 12y agoJust posted a link about Verizon breaking the cable monopoly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8322762 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8322762
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- _kst_ 12y agoUsenet isn't just piracy. There are still a number of active plain-text discussion groups (though most of them aren't as active as they used to be).