On 2012-06-19 21:00:19 +0000, dsi1 said:

> On 6/19/2012 9:18 AM, MotoFox wrote:
>> And it came to pass that dsi1 delivered the following message unto the
>> people, saying~
>>
>>> Do people still download pirated and cracked programs anymore?
>>
>> Yeah.
>>
>> (But not from Usenet.....)
>>
>
> I was reading some stuff about Usenet vs peer to peer downloads. The
> main deal was that Usenet is faster but you have to pay for Usenet€¦

No you don't. There are free providers. Eternal-september and
albasani are two of them.

> ...and you might face bandwidth limitations and file retention issues
> and there's not as much selection of illegal and ought to be illegal
> files. Evidently there's still some monkey business going on in Usenet.
> My opinion is that this is a good thing. :-)