Newsgroups - no longer secure & Private ??? any news providers outsde USA ?

[zot]

I love the fact that so many people are now boycotting GoDaddy because of the company's recent support for SOPA. GoDaddy has always been one of the worst companies when it comes to standing up against the abuses of the copyright cartel. It's a cheap service, no doubt, but these goons are known to pull the plug on people in a heartbeat.

After Japan outlawed the downloading of copyrighted material last year, I figured it would be only a matter of time before the US and Europe do the same -- basically treating illicit Hollywood material as similar to child porn. Maybe in the next 'SOPA' bill?

[Sporkk]

I was wondering that if I request my accounts to be deleted from astraweb and not just cancelled would they comply? I would also like to do this with any other servers that I'm not using anymore.

[nntpjunkie]

My hope is that with all the active opposition to these bills, there is no way in hell they are going to pass - MP$$ RI$$ might try to buy politicians, but it is we the people that vote and determine whether or not the current politicians get their jobs back in 2012 - so if they want their jobs back they will listen to the people and not the greedy behind the times hazbins the MP$$ and RI$$

Sign the petition to kill SOPA

[hdjunky]

I was wondering that if I request my accounts to be deleted from astraweb and not just cancelled would they comply? I would also like to do this with any other servers that I'm not using anymore.

Why? The OP doesn't seem to even understand what this bill is all about. Even if it did pass what would having account in records even matter?

[Sporkk]

Why? The OP doesn't seem to even understand what this bill is all about. Even if it did pass what would having account in records even matter?

I didn't think it would and maybe I'm going off topic but wouldn't it still be better to not have your info on file if your not using the service?

[sandman_1]

...but it is we the people that vote and determine whether or not the current politicians get their jobs back in 2012 - so if they want their jobs back they will listen to the people and not the greedy behind the times hazbins the MP$$ and RI$$

Sign the petition to kill SOPA

Unfortunately a lot of those bastards are in "safe" districts and they know it. Unless we do something about gerrymandering, nothing probably won't change. I like what Iowa is doing though and that should probably be a model for the rest of the country if you ask me. Here is to hoping...

[hdjunky]

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Why? The OP doesn't seem to even understand what this bill is all about. Even if it did pass what would having account in records even matter?

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I didn't think it would and maybe I'm going off topic but wouldn't it still be better to not have your info on file if your n

Well paypal has all your records. Your credit card has all your usenet payment records. An expired account would be peanuts compared to the actual amount of active accounts out there. The only real way to protect yourself would be to send your cash by mail to one of the remaining few that take it. That way you can use fake information.

[zot]

There are a number of usenet resellers that promise complete anonymity. (This should only be of interest to posters/uploaders of course.) I don't know how seriously to accept that claim.

I like what Iowa is doing though and that should probably be a model for the rest of the country if you ask me. Here is to hoping...

It's interesting how the MSM suddenly began chanting the chorus "Iowa doesn't count" the instant that "fringe candidate" Ron Paul started leading in the polls. (But personally, I think it's all for naught. Both the MSM and the Republican Party establishment have already gone into overdrive trying to smear him, and with that combined force against him, he could soon be reduced to Herman Cain numbers, I suspect)

[Beck38]

From the 'slippery slope' department, makes for good reading:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/201...techdirt.shtml

[temisturk]

There are a number of usenet resellers that promise complete anonymity. (This should only be of interest to posters/uploaders of course.) I don't know how seriously to accept that claim.

The way I look at it, with the amount of the amount of spamming and ddos'ing and stuff that everyone operating on the internet has to defend themselves against, and the amount of hacking going on, and the amount of new laws being proposed and enacted giving governments and corporations ever increasing powers to poke their noses into private dealings, and the increasing prevalence of "super cookies" and things like that, the only safe assumption you can make is that someone somewhere is actively recording or at the very least able to record permanently everything you do on the Internet.

That doesn't mean there's going to be a knock on your door tomorrow. But next week or next year--who knows?

From the 'slippery slope' department, makes for good reading:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/201...techdirt.shtml

Nice. I've found myself reading techdirt more and more over the past year, I think it's great.