Qumahlin
Never Enough Time
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join:2001-10-05
united state
| reply to BF69
There really is no big deal except for the people who use their ISP provided newsgroup accounts primarily for warez/movie downloads. Now those people will need to pay for that ability.
Otherwise as another poster pointed out thanks to google and a few other sites you can pretty much access newsgroups as normal via the web, and quite frankly accessing them via the web for actual discussion purposes (thier original use) is actually easier to use and makes discussions easier to follow.
As for what are newsgroups? »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
Seriously though, piracy is pretty much the only thing still driving the newsgroup industry, it's also the #1 cause of increase in costs to the newsgroup industry due to the immense amount of storage required.
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