Comments on: Usenet – what have you become?

By: Liptonade

Liptonade — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 08:54:03 +0000

NZBDrone is a new Sickbeard alternative that has actually become better than SB, I believe. It’s simpler overall, and the UI is much more appealing. I also find the backlog management to be superior.

I’ve never gotten Headphones to do anything useful for me, it’s pretty useless IMHO. I’m checking out an alternative program called Lovely Tunes. It’s still in very early Beta but already it’s done a hell of a lot more for me than Headphones ever has.

As for usenet providers, this video I found has some interesting things to say: [url]http://youtu.be/jQ5spKm6-gw[url]

By: 33goingon17

33goingon17 — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 20:51:22 +0000

I pay US$10 for SSL usenet service through one that is not giganews and US$10 for torguard, monthly, each. US cable providers provide the fastest internet locally as FIOS is not yet available in my neighborhood. What I don’t understand is how cable providers boast higher and higher speeds (and provide them, I have a reliable 30Mbps connection) but aggressively pursue piracy. Even more bizarre is that they seem indignant towards people who would use their blazing high speed internet for the unlawful procurement of …. stuff. I mean seriously, is the premium price worth the imperceptible difference between 3 and 30 Mbps for the casual user who checks the weather and puts stuff on facebook?

By: Tenshu

Tenshu — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:59:57 +0000

Yeah yeah netflix & everithing.

Did you realised that the world is a *little bite* wider than THE usa.
I’m french and the average french guy down in the street of Paris I cn see through my window would answer “net what?” to the question “do you know anything about netflix”.

“Sorry, Netflix is not available in your country yet.” this what netflix is in most part avec the globe.

Here VOD is expensive, TV show are broadcast like shit on TV with a year of two behind the US mostly in poor french version, and they sell this stuff for 40-50â‚¬ PER SEASON.

Sick Beard is close to the Holy Grail trust me (it will be when it would grab subtitles).

Quick summary : offer is poor in most countries, when the offer is bearable it is crazy expensive and usenet is safe from anti-piracy measures (thanks SSL).

By: Curt Welch

Curt Welch — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 23:19:26 +0000

“On the other hand, maybe we should shed a tear for the loss of everything that Usenet used to stand for â€“ a democratic, open discussion forum that was the heart and soul of the internet for many years before the web even existed.”

Well said! I really miss those days.

By: Usenet, de la luz a la oscuridad | Incognitosis

Usenet, de la luz a la oscuridad | Incognitosis — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:10:47 +0000

[…] en un fantÃ¡stico post -con un gran debate en Hacker News- un usuario en un post titulado “Usenet, what have you become?” (“Usenet, Â¿en quÃ© te has convertido?”), en el que analiza algunas de las […]

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 22:45:45 +0000

Thank you sir. I haven’t touched usenet since the days of dreamcast, but it looks like I should come back.

By: John Saddington

John Saddington — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:34:01 +0000

they could solve it but it’s already been solved from one perspective… the time delay is a business model that works and is profitable. the question is whether same-day on-demand can be as profitable if not more. it would have to be the latter (in a huge X factor) for anyone to do anything about it.

gawd, i haven’t used usenet in forever…

By: Jay Freestone

Jay Freestone — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 13:37:37 +0000

Good point, but you overestimate how much it costs and therefore put too much weight on availability. Follow Up

By: Harry Brignull

Harry Brignull — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 13:04:08 +0000

Looks like a healthy discussion is brewing over at Hacker news.

By: Greg Perkins

Greg Perkins — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 12:08:39 +0000

Around 2004-2007 our society perfected the infrastructure for entertainment distribution. We’re still working to modify our socioeconomic legal framework to accomodate that advancement.

By: Gabe da Silveira

Gabe da Silveira — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 11:58:09 +0000

Sure, but if you run the numbers I’m sure that the amount that HBO et al receive from cable subscriptions completely dwarfs the amount of money that people are directly paying for any kind of streaming or download service. It doesn’t matter if 10% of the people are pirating willy nilly if the majority continues to pay through the nose for cable. Big content is not going to risk killing the golden goose by increasing availability until they are sure there is a market there. And if people scream bloody murder over Netflix raising their prices by a couple dollars a month while cable customers are happily paying 10-20x that, well, that’s not confidence inspiring to the rightsholders.