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Originally Posted by theknife
it's the ISP who is actually hosting the files in question, no?
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until several years when most swapped content still consisted of small text files (news & info) the answer to that would have been yes, but like file-sharing in general things changed for newsgroups. when bandwidth consumption skyrocketed and copyright cartel pressure increased, isps began restricting access to the networks after subscribers got into binary groups specializing in copies of large retail media files. now companies like usenet.com host some content on their own servers, "facilitate access" to still more, and sell this service directly to users at a profit, usually on a sliding scale where customers pay more for getting more, with usenet.com's revenues increasing proportionally as file sizes swell, like text to mp3 to avi. needless to say essentially all of this content is produced by media cartels and not usenet.com.
- js.