In a new series of lawsuits, Hollywood studios for the first time are targeting companies that provide access to Usenet newsgroups. This corner of the Internet, largely a leftover from the days before ...

Long before Facebook existed, or even before the Internet, there was Usenet. Usenet was the first social network. Now, with Google Groups abandoning Usenet, this oldest of all social networks is ...

Easynews is an all-in-one service providing Usenet access plus a web-based Usenet search interface. It really keeps things simple by eliminating the need for a desktop client while delivering ...

Horton’s message was a response to a previous post, the intact original of which is now lost to history, from one “sdcarl!rusty,” aka Rusty Wright. With this incomplete fragment of a cryptic exchange, ...

If you are an old technology geek, then you are no doubt familiar with Usenet. Long before Facebook, Twitter and Google+, Usenet was the social network of its day. Initially launched in 1979 as a way ...

A federal judge yesterday found Usenet.com liable for just about every copyright infringement claim on the books: direct infringement, inducement of infringement, contributory infringement, and (just ...

Usenet is a wonderful service for finding and downloading digital media, giving you speed and reliability you won't find with other file-sharing options—like, say, BitTorrent. Here's a quick guide on ...

Over the last few years, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and other organizations looking to eliminate the illegal swapping of digital media files have attacked the problem through ...

In these troubled times it’s tempting to start every column with, “In these troubled times … blah, blah, blah.” But when you think about it, “these troubled times” have been with us for quite some ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It’s an excellent alternative to popular social media platforms because it allows the user to ...

It’s the tree of life, and for no particular reason, either. What? Today we’ll be setting up our Usenet software to look at an RSS feed. (You can also accomplish pretty much the same thing using ...