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File sharing in Japan is notable for both its size and sophistication. [1] The Recording Industry Association of Japan has used a 2010 study to suggest that illegal downloads (which have been illegal since 2010) outnumber legal ones 10:1. [2] [3] In 2012, a law was passed that would invoke penalties for accessing pirated music or movies. [3]
Modern Usenet news servers have enough capacity to archive years of binary content even when flooded with new data at the maximum daily speed available. In part because of such long retention times, as well as growing Internet upload speeds, Usenet is also used by individual users to store backup data. [ 31 ]
Google Groups was the most popular and by far the largest Web-based Usenet archive (consisting of over 700 million posts dating from as early as 1981 [1]) until its advanced search functionality became nonfunctional in February 2015. [2] It discontinued Usenet operation in 2024.
Textboards like 2channel were rooted in two earlier technologies: dial-in bulletin boards, known in Japan as grass roots bulletin boards (草の根BBS), [5] and Usenet. [26] 2channel has two predecessors: Ayashii World created in 1996 by Shiba Masayuki, [26] and Amezou (あめぞう), [25] created in 1997. Ayashii World was the first large ...
A newsreader, also known as a news client, is a software application that reads articles on Usenet, either directly from the news server's disks or via the NNTP. The well-known TCP port 119 is reserved for NNTP. Well-known TCP port 433 (NNSP) may be used when doing a bulk transfer of articles from one server to another.
It allows users to access electronic mailing lists as if they were Usenet newsgroups, and also through a variety of web interfaces. Since Gmane is a bidirectional gateway, it can also be used to post on the mailing lists. Gmane is an archive; it never expires messages (unless explicitly requested by users). Gmane also supports importing list ...
The Deja News Research Service was an archive of messages posted to Usenet discussion groups, started in March 1995 [6] by Steve Madere in Austin, Texas. Its search engine capabilities won the service acclaim, generated controversy, and significantly changed the perceived nature of online discussion. This archive was acquired by Google in 2001.
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