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Alex - those arent recent changes - theyve done that since 1996 - so has every one of the other services that do exactly the same thing (and this includes some affiliate programs paysites members areas which give their members that extra 500,000 pics by having access to Usenet as well) - and based on the few that Ive looked at they all have been doing this forever.
The only reason this came to the forefront recently is that they sponsored some stuff in Vegas and then the other day skinned another board as they have started really pushing their WM affiliate program.
Again - this is not something that is going to go away - but like Greenie says - most of us dont endorse it.
You would think that this would have hit the fan back when the record companies were going after the P2P services, since Usenet is still a "great" source of music CDs - for free of course if you have something like Agent to retrieve them - I know I could fill up my 30G IPOD in two days with all of the MP3 rips of music CDs posted there every day
Of course someone will start looking into the Affiliate programs paysites here pretty soon and another tool the paysite owners use will go down the tubes - I know most of them have already pulled their advertising on their tours that they provide access to the Usenet (a few years back)
Seems like someone always has to police the internet - since we cant seem to fight off the Govt very well we might as well cut away all of the long time ways of advertising that we have had in the past ourselves - hell - maybe we should just borrow that shotgun from Cheney and shoot both of our own feet
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