For a long long time usenet was left alone. People could share and learn. And the illegal content grew and grew.
Now Usenet is 99% illegal content. And users think they will be left alone.
Yesterday a dutch court decided the provider needs to delete all commerciall shared content on their USENET servers.
If this is followed globally (wich I expect it will) then USENET will be dead as is within 6 months.

There are alot of other ways of sharing. But will this mean that the backbone of the sharing community will die. And what impact will we see.

Next we will see that files, wich are logged to have commercial content, will be tagged to your social sequrity number and you will be asked to pay up.
It'll be fun to see the changes that will take place...

 

That is good. I have never ever used USENET for sharing, nor do I know anyone who does either. You are WRONG about USENET being the backbone of sharing. The stuff that is shared
must be, you know, cracked or keygenned first. I don't know of any "sharing guys" that can actually crack, program keygens or pull of something like off like releasing
a fully working Cubase after 2 years of WORKING WITHOUT PAY.

The backbone is called private, encrypted and secured FTP-servers.. and scene-groups.
The only non-scene group that does actually crack somethings right sometimes is Assign. But they are probably not welcome on the scene because they
spread/release their stuff straight on the web (security warning deluxe), maybe if they stopped releasing on the web/unsecure sites they would be welcome.
It is not hard to find security issues with releaseing stuff publicly on the web. And it is not only THEIR problem, it becomes your problem also.

The scene is about contributing yourself, either by putting up secure servers, couriering (you know, ever heard of uploading new/unreleased stuff?), cracking, programming etc.
Everyone that wants part of the good warez has to put something in into the scene. This is the way it used to be since the 80's...
Now people only want to HAVE stuff and don't care about contributing anything real.

No coincidence that you can earn money via "Filesharing" webs and USENET-server companies....

Remember, without the scene - the sharing community would not exist!

SHARING SHOULD BE ABOUT EVERYTHING BUT THE MONEY! Still all webs/sharingsites are doing money out of banners or paying users....

 

Its a shame about USENET. The oldest form of sharing was definitely the best. I got back into using it a couple years ago after a friend told me that almost anything youd want could be found in the old alt newsgroups and downloaded at full speed. I lost my music library due to drive failure and with a couple weeks I had everything back and upgraaded to lossless. I agree Muze, there definitely will be a lot of changes if these intenets laws start getting passed....and now there is precident.

 

Its all ways been the worst file sharing service anyway, and there is alot of torrents around so who really needs or cares about them anyway

 

You sure can tell who doesn't use the usenet providers here, Usenet requires a news reader and provider (not Free), not as easy as just browsing the internet. There is tons of content there, much of which is not available any other way, or is problematic to distribute with other methods.

As far as this becoming global, I don't see it. What is the incentive for all the countries to do the same thing. Which countries Laws are the whole world going to follow. See the problem. This requires all the countries to agree on the same thing, and it would be very expensive to all. Usenet is not regulated now. Who would regulate it. What's the cost. Cost of law suites also. What is in it for either the countries or providers. How many people even know about Usenet, not near as many as use p2p file sharing. There are many many usenet servers and mirrored servers, worldwide. It would be detrimental to shut down the whole thing, It has been in place for decades.

Relax, usenet providers will move their servers to more complacent countries to keep making money!

If you use Usenet keep using,

More power to us,

Ironic isn't it. They are screwing up Usenet, and have very liberal drug and prostitution laws.