why not switch to usenet?

[SonsOfLiberty]

But, I have a little question:

What happens if a government forces the usenet providers to block the binaries groups access?

What happen with the court case from usenet.com?

They can't, they fall under common carrier law, Wiki it if you don't understand. There is no case ever with usenet, there is one up coming with Newzbin, but that affects that site only, not Usenet, usenet has been around as long as the internet.

[tywyn]

Since when are newsgroups used for binaries transfer/file sharing?

Usenet was developed in the late 70's but for binary file sharing the 80's, a long long time before torrents

Newzbin has also been around for quite some time.

[cinephilia]

Usenet was developed in the late 70's but for binary file sharing the 80's, a long long time before torrents

i fail to see what's funny about it.

[tywyn]

Usenet was developed in the late 70's but for binary file sharing the 80's, a long long time before torrents

i fail to see what's funny about it.

Then develop a sense of humor

[cinephilia]

i have a developed sense of humour... i think that's precisely why i didn't laugh.

[tywyn]

Yes because unfortunately you don't possess one.

[Something Else]

I think he just meant to put the at the beginning.

[dickytricky]

I am going to try both,why switch one for another.I have IPT for bittorrent and have just signed up to Astreweb.Now all i need is a Newzbin invite and i have the best of both worlds.Will have to see though if usenet users are as kind as people here, who trusted me with invites

[tywyn]

Yeah indeed go for it, you could also go http://www.packetnews.com/ for IRC downloading, private FTP's and RS/MU and then you have the full set

[shipwreck]

I honestly can't even download all the content I have at my proposal in the bittorrent world, let alone watch all of it, listen to it, play it, work with it, jizz on it etc. I just don't need Usenet (or other ways to get content), there simply is too much content available for me already.