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[FYI] Older Net Service Picks Up Napster's Slack
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- From: "Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 09:59:06 +0200
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Older Net Service Picks Up Napster's Slack
May 2, 2001
By Bruce Simpson
With services such as Napster coming under increasing pressure from
the recording industry to reign in the free trading of copyrighted
music across the Net, savvy traders are returning to one of the
oldest services Internet protocols -- usenet.
Although most browsers have support for reading usenet, or
"newsgroups" as they are some times known, it is an area of the Net
which has been largely ignored in favor of online chat rooms and
message forums -- but that's changing.
[...]
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