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

  • 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…

    • immibis@social.immibis.com
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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.