Roadrunner, the cable company from Time Warner discontinues newsgroups access, for those existing customers the usenet provider Giganews has a special 50% discount if you sign up now.
Usenet is considered by many as superior to peer to peer filesharing and offers the ability to download (often copyrighted) content at very high speed. Usenet consists of newsgroups, where users can discuss all kinds of topics, but also has binary groups where users post and download files. These downloads are added by other users and reside on a central server. Downloading also goes from this central server instead of downloading chunks from other people trough their often slower connections.
Time Warner has now decided to pull the plug on their Usenet service, according to the website DSL reports this is due to low subscriber usage and Giganews is offering them an alternative.
Those Roadrunner subscribers who signup through this special link will receive a 50% discount on their first month.
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Theo (guest),
Fri 20 Jun 2008 03:02
http://www.newsdemon.com is also offering a special discount for the Time Warner and Verizon members. Newsdemon is offering a 15% lifetime discount on all their plans, including their block accounts.
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Dr.Tek. (guest),
Fri 20 Jun 2008 17:55
Even the more reason to go with DSL. Here in Cinti, Zoomtown offers a great USENET feed. Time Warner's has always been crap over here. I say that it's time to switch.
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Vbritt,
Thu 26 Jun 2008 04:09
Giganews is one great news server. I was heavy into binaries a number of years ago and it was a toss up between Supernews and Giganews. As the software industry, the RIAA, and the Movie Studios seek out pirated stuff the Newsgroups are not a safe haven anymore. The settlement costs to avoid lawsuits can destroy the average person making the newsgroups less and less popular. It just isn't worth the risk, at least not to me. It used to be a Geeks game, but not anymore.
