Newzbin, a major indexer of Usenet newsgroup binaries, has been hammered by a UK judge. Though the site claimed to be nothing more than a “Google for Usenet” that indexed all sorts of useful material, ...

In the wake of its victory in the first file-sharing case to go to trial, the RIAA has moved on to its next target: the nefarious home of millions of illicit files, Usenet. Yesterday, a consortium of ...

Usenet newsgroups dedicated to piracy are seeing a resurgence in activity as file sharers seek less-policed areas of the internet to trade illegal data. Some pirated movies are now even appearing in ...

Usenet: Everyone’s heard of it, nobody uses it. This is ridiculous. Not only is it a fantastic way to download—it’s not that hard to use. Here’s how to drop ...

Panic has released a major update to its Mac Usenet client Unison. Usenet is one of those historical districts of the Internet that's a bit off the beaten track these days, but still has its uses. It ...

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 ...

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 ...

We asked deKay whether he ever used the Usenet for hosting binaries. I did set up a binaries group for posting stuff relating to the Sinclair Spectrum about 10 or 12 years ago,' he says, 'but it ...

Usenet, a social platform older than Twitter, Facebook, blogs and even the web itself, is still thriving. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...