manualz

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   by manualz 14y ago

   @evandena > which propagate to the other providers Source? I haven't heard of DMCA takedowns propagating to other separate companies. Resellers sure (same company). Many users have specifically avoided Highwinds resellers due to the lar
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   by manualz 14y ago

   Most providers will tell you they do not keep any logs. However, most of the bigger providers will add an encrypted header to any post you make. The NSP can later decrypt the header to see which of their users made the post. To the best of
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   by manualz 14y ago

   While lack of 8 bit support is unfortunate, most posts utilize yEnc now which is much more efficient than base64 or uuencode. With bittorrent caches, wouldn't you still be limited to people providing seeds for each item? The sustainability
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   by manualz 14y ago

   > and thus this kind of service would cannibalize their traditional business. Which makes you wonder. Since such a service would largely kill piracy over night, do they not do it because the profit margin lost is actually greater than w
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   by manualz 14y ago

   Since the major binary providers stopped deleting articles about 4 years ago, Usenet has effectively become a public digital archive. Granted, archive.org takes uploads but they're limited to public domain works or creative commons. There's