Usenet still runs. It's just much less traffic than it used to be. ISPs could not necessarily tell that NNTP service made them money, it's rather arcane and bi

Usenet still runs. It's just much less traffic than it used to be. ISPs could not necessarily tell that NNTP service made them money, it's rather arcane and binaries really were a piracy sink. I have dozens of old Usenet contacts on Facebook, and none of them really know why they left, other than possibly their ISP dropping the service.