On 2012-06-19 22:50:01 +0000, dsi1 said:

> On 6/19/2012 12:34 PM, gtr wrote:
>> 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. :-)
>>
>>
>
> I use ES myself. I thought they didn't support binaries. I could be
> wrong about this since I'm not interested in that aspect.

Oops, I missed it if that was the consideration regarding free
access--neither provide binary, I believe.