• Arcka@midwest.social
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    19 days ago

    What do you consider large files? Isn’t the article size usually limited to something like 1mb (it’s been a while since I used Usenet)?

    So it would technically be about the number of articles rather than the eventual size of the combined archive? At the core it’s all still text right?

    • MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de
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      19 days ago

      Pirated media(images, movies, ebooks, ROMs) uses binary posts, not text. There are different limits and retention policies for binary versus text articles, and most Usenet servers, particularly cheap or free ones, don’t host a lot of the categories a pirate would want at all.

      Please don’t imply that all Usenet providers facilitate piracy.