Tweaknews- another recent Highwinds/UNS acquisition

[Beck38]

Beck38
Once there are only highwinds scums and gigashit left uploading will become almost impossible due to them banning left and right uploaders accounts.

I don't think it's 'quite' to the 'sky is falling' stage yet. Yes, it looks like highwinds is following the Comcast (US) corporate takeover scheme in gobbling up a lot/most/all? of the smaller operators. Perhaps it's the cost analysis of trying to compete against Astraweb/Giganews, adding to the plants while not allowing anything to 'roll off', so some industry-wide concentration is bound to happen.

[dwa]

Sad news, I'll think 2 times before my incoming renewal

[PossumK]

Doh, just renewed for another 3 months recently. Hope it's not affected for a while.

[2501]

Tweak's servers have now switched over, headers look like a typical highwinds setup & no more X-Trace

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[cardboardbox]

Tweak's servers have now switched over, headers look like a typical highwinds setup & no more X-Trace

sigh, I have 2 months and 9 days left on tweak. Last I checked I was able to grab a lot more from them than usenetbucket but I guess thats going to change.

[spiralout9]

That sucks. I'm glad I held off on paying for a Tweaknews account.

[gooberling]

Yeah, I'm glad I held off on renewing as mine's expiring in a few days. I get that these guys have to do take downs, but do they have to do them immediately? Anybody know how long they have under DMCA rules to comply?

[voodu]

My tweaknews account stopped working on 11th Feb and no record of it in my dashboard. There is a notice that they had trouble migrating some accounts and are working 'as fast as possible' to fix it but 6 days to migrate some accounts seems pretty excessive.

[NNTP]

My tweaknews account stopped working, too. After waiting for two days I contacted support and got issued a new account with new login credentials. I had the basic plan with about 5 weeks remaining and got a new 3-month basic plan.

[voodu]

I thought it would be pointless to contact them initially because I saw their notice that they were working on it and assumed everything would be migrated by the time they replied.

But yeah, considering 6 days have passed with no update, I will contact them now to see if they can sort it out. Thanks for your feedback.