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• Dr. Roy Schestowitz

  2010-05-07 22:24:50

  @phel I raised exactly this point earlier today and last year. I still use USENET very heavily.
  
  Very few services are peer-based these days. Those which remained are being labeled "piracy".

• phel

  2010-05-06 23:25:23

  Listening to this one thing that comes to mind is usenet. It is slowly dying because it is being suppressed by the IPR and content industries with the telcos and ISPs doing the dirty work. Usenet as a communication channel has some unique features which no web-forum can offer like de-centralised storage and limitations on censorship which require community-wide consensus to block anything. There are issues with spam, but which service dont have that. It could also do with some cleaning up, like possibly ditch the binaries. Yet, I'd really like to se "freedom activists" (speech/software/etc) stand up for the usenet and promote it. Every decent service provider should as a minimum provide a decent text-only feed for their users, and the service should be marketed as one of the fundamental internet services like it once was. Many of the users who joined the net in the last 10 years have never even heard about it, and that's a disgrace.