Are there ways to use usenet without a payment/subscription?

  • immibis@social.immibis.com
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    1 year ago

    @sh3ll @piracy Usenet is not a network, it’s a service where you just pay a website full of illegal stuff to let you download illegal stuff. It’s like asking if there’s a way to use reddit without being impacted by spez’s decisions

    • d4nm3d@demmy.co.uk
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      1 year ago

      yeah you don’t exactly understand what usenet is i don’t think… please hold whilst i duck to avoid all the abuse i feel is now coming my way…

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        1 year ago

        @d4nm3d The original purpose of usenet was to spread news. However, you’re asking in a piracy lemmy. In the context of piracy, usenet is a system where you straightforwardly pay someone to download illegal content from them, as opposed to a peer-to-peer system like bittorrent. Obviously, some universities may use usenet to spread news, but they certainly won’t use it to spread pirated content.