the real 'figure' should be on which day (approximately) that a retention goes 'back to'.
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I'd like to make another prediction:
At some point in the future all this massive retention will become worthless. As removing all this material is as easy as shooting fish in a barrel, more and more files in usenet's back catalog will be DMCA'd until practically nothing is left.
Then it will be back to the old days, and we'll once again be required to grab stuff fast before it gets deleted from the servers. I'm sure the main reason this has not happened up until now is because the copyright cops have had much bigger dragons to slay. But as usenet continues to emerge from the shadows and become a mainstream file-sharing mechanism, it's head will eventually be on the chopping block some day.
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