Peerblock is totally useless nowadays. You really need a vpn for torrents.
I did think it was just a front for subscriptions.
I wonder how well the "It was me WIFI been 'acked guv, I's just an honest tatie picker I am" works.
Peerblock is totally useless nowadays. You really need a vpn for torrents.
Depending on what torrent client you use you can use a blacklist that does a similar thing as peerblock but for torrents.
Always been a fan of uTorrent. I heard some have inbuilt search scrapers now though.
38 years? I have been using newsgroups for a very very long time but pretty sure you wouldn't of have had access in 1980?
Happy to be proved wrong though
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Usenet (/ˈjuːznɛt/) is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers. It was developed from the general-purpose Unix-to-Unix Copy (UUCP) dial-up network architecture. Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis conceived the idea in 1979, and it was established in 1980. Users read and post messages (called articles or posts, and collectively termed news) to one or more categories, known as newsgroups. Usenet resembles a bulletin board system (BBS) in many respects and is the precursor to Internet forums that are widely used today. Discussions are threaded, as with web forums and BBSs, though posts are stored on the server sequentially. The name comes from the term "users network".
One notable difference between a BBS or web forum and Usenet is the absence of a central server and dedicated administrator. Usenet is distributed among a large, constantly changing conglomeration of servers that store and forward messages to one another in so-called news feeds. Individual users may read messages from and post messages to a local server operated by a commercial usenet provider, their Internet service provider, university, employer, or their own server.
Usenet has significant cultural importance in the networked world, having given rise to, or popularized, many widely recognized concepts and terms such as "FAQ", "flame", and "spam".
I get that... But have you really been using newsgroups since 1980 and where? What hardware? Software etc?38 years? I have been using newsgroups for a very very long time but pretty sure you wouldn't of have had access in 1980?
Happy to be proved wrong though
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The Usenet started in 1979 following on from the Arpanet, the usenet went public in 1980 all over the world, you needed a nice speedy 300 baud modem or higher just to get the newsgroups working. The usenet was popular way before the World Wide Web, and long before the easy to use NZB's.
A quick quote from wiki
Usenet (/ˈjuːznɛt/) is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers. It was developed from the general-purpose Unix-to-Unix Copy (UUCP) dial-up network architecture. Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis conceived the idea in 1979, and it was established in 1980. Users read and post messages (called articles or posts, and collectively termed news) to one or more categories, known as newsgroups. Usenet resembles a bulletin board system (BBS) in many respects and is the precursor to Internet forums that are widely used today. Discussions are threaded, as with web forums and BBSs, though posts are stored on the server sequentially. The name comes from the term "users network".
One notable difference between a BBS or web forum and Usenet is the absence of a central server and dedicated administrator. Usenet is distributed among a large, constantly changing conglomeration of servers that store and forward messages to one another in so-called news feeds. Individual users may read messages from and post messages to a local server operated by a commercial usenet provider, their Internet service provider, university, employer, or their own server.
Usenet has significant cultural importance in the networked world, having given rise to, or popularized, many widely recognized concepts and terms such as "FAQ", "flame", and "spam".
I get that... But have you really been using newsgroups since 1980 and where? What hardware? Software etc?
What articles did you read and or post? Because it was all text articles right?
Not taking the piss but you must have some serious IT pedigree.
For me it around 2001 and was using ntl newsgroups manually searching a.b.movies iirc I download a svcd "how high" with method man and redman which didn't work on my dvd player as it was PAL only.
Pretty sure I used to get mp3s before then but honestly don't remember. It would have been after napster / kazza?
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