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Originally Posted by vmfriend
Ok, if i guessed 'copyrighted material' would i be correct, why do people talk in riddles, why dont they just say i am trying to downloand <insert copyrighted material here> but VM are managing my connection so i can't download it quick enough ?
I find it a bit odd that someone would pay to download copyrighted material ?
As a percentage then, and honestly i am genuinely interested, what proportion is legit and what isn't ?
Sorry I am hijacking the thread, I will stop, this has probably all been discussed before.
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You would be correct and I don't have very much experience with newsgroups but the majority of content is copyright since they will be big files and the legit content will just be text. The legit stuff although dying out is support forms, news articles (as he name suggests) etc. Most isp's used to or still do provide free access to newsgroups but block certain groups, In fact VM used to (or maybe they still do?) provide support newsgroups which is where all of the virgin staff on the forums used to be before they moved to the virgin forums.
And as for paying to download copyright material people always have and continue to pay for copyright material.