Quote Originally Posted by zot View Post
This was discussed earlier that Giganews is often missing articles that other providers have.
Quote Originally Posted by mesaman View Post
... downloading Newzbin Report #5670754 from Giganews with Blocknews filling in 11 MB. ... Giganews was missing 11 MB because their DMCA takedown team removed 11 MB. Otherwise it would have been complete. I think Giganews follows the DMCA notices to the letter and removes all article message-ID's listed in the notice.
That's nonsense. Giganews removed 11MB of something due a DMCA report?

Other people have said that Giganews seems to get hit hardest by DMCA takedowns, with Highwinds coming in second. (It's been reported that many Dutch usenet providers are hardly ever missing anything due to DMCAs)
"Other people said..." isn't a reliable statistical source.

"Other people" in that thread also stated "The best are Ginaews, Astraweb and Highwinds..." contradicting the other, other people. () But with nothing to back it up I dismiss it as opinion.

I've used Giganews for several years and as stated before, and have no problems with completion.