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I hope so. I've been thinking about it recently.

You can get a free text-only Usenet account here:
https://www.eternal-september....

Then install and configure Pan or Thunderbird.

Also free accounts at http://www.aioe.org/ and if you don't mind paying, http://www.astraweb.com/ where I payed $10 for 25GBs. 25GBs is a lot of text posts.

Or do like I do. Pay them for service and download most everything anyway. I'm paying for it. How I choose delivery is my business.

SABnzbd + SickBeard + AstraWeb = FU and your silly games

Stop copying me!!! That combo is for MY enjoyment. Well, other than using Astraweb.
SO:
sabnzbd + sickbeard + ( giganews OR astraweb ) = JOY!!!!

...dehumanizing the victim makes things simpler
It's like breathing with a respirator
It eases the conscience of even the most conscious
and calculating violator
Words can reduce a person to an object,
something more easy to hate
An inanimate entity, completely disposable,
no problem to obliterate.

But death is the silence
in this language of violence

SickBeard + SABnzbd. With a 'pay as you go' setup from Astraweb.

Right, but what about those of us who aren't willing to set up an industrial copyright violation machine just to watch our media? What about those of us who are currently paying for your "free" ride?

Yeah, well my family had an ALL streaming home entertainment since I was born in 1982. I even used it all the way up through when I went to college. Shocking, I know. You'd even think we were in the future. Now with HDTV each of the main 5 channels I grew up with now has 2-3 "side stations". I would have killed for that amount of PBS growing up.
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Actually, right now I use: XBMC + SickBeard + SABnzbd. With a 'pay as you go' setup from Astraweb. 180GB lasts me 4-5 months of regular programming and all summer. (An costs as much as 2.5 months of 'all you can eat'.).

My apartment sits across the street from a Laundromat that advertises 'free internet' (I didn't see any mention of customers only), DD-WRT in client mode feeds my OpenWRT router.

Yeah, I have.

Heck it's how I distribute large files to friends. No MegaUpload or anything service. Just Usenet.

Usenet works just fine.

Did you forget about the first rule of usenet? It has already been declared dead and is good thing but thanks to you now the MPAA will know still alive :)

$10/month will get you unlimited Astraweb. Or a 180GB chunk for $25 should last you at least a year if all you want it for is TV shows.

SickBeard +
SABnzbd +
XBMC

Is damn near the best DVR solution I've ever seen or used. Only downside is you can't watch stuff "live" or catch up like you can with current DVRs.

And depending on your ethics and federal law you can:
feel bad about it, even though it's legal.
not feel bad about it because it's legal.
feel bad about it, because it's illegal.
not feel bad about it, even though it's illegal.

$10 one time payment to NZBMatrix has suited me well over a year. There are also other free providers. And if you're a risk taker (in the US) then you can also use it for torrents. But Torrents don't give me near the speed, plus you're technically uploading with them, so you could get nasty grams.

$10/month will get you unlimited Astraweb. Or a 180GB chunk for $25 should last you at least a year if all you want it for is TV shows.

SickBeard +
SABnzbd +
XBMC

Is damn near the best DVR solution I've ever seen or used. Only downside is you can't watch stuff "live" or catch up like you can with current DVRs.

And depending on your ethics and federal law you can:
feel bad about it, even though it's legal.
not feel bad about it because it's legal.
feel bad about it, because it's illegal.
not feel bad about it, even though it's illegal.

$10 one time payment to NZBMatrix has suited me well over a year. There are also other free providers. And if you're a risk taker (in the US) then you can also use it for torrents. But Torrents don't give me near the speed, plus you're technically uploading with them, so you could get nasty grams.

SABnzbd + SickBeard + XBMC + $10/month to a server of your choice.

The whole process is nothing short of magic, plus you can get back episodes if available.

I use Astraweb as its currently the best unlimited monthly payment going

http://www.news.astraweb.com/specials/kleverig-11.html

$11/mo
SSL
Unlimited downloads

I've never had a problem capping my connection's bandwidth or with the service.

I second that. I've been using Astraweb for years, and they are reliable, fast and cheaper than the competition. Retention is growing to 365 days currently.

They're especially cheap(I pay $11 US per month for unlimited 20 connections) and they're upgrading their retention to 360 days, right now it's at 295. I don't work for Astraweb, I'm just a very satisfied customer. The only downfall, if you consider this a downfall, is to get the $11 a month deal you have to pay through PayPal's subscription service, which isn't all that bad. Here's the link: http://www.news.astraweb.com/specials/kleverig-11.html Click the "Now Accepting PayPal" button.

I use Astraweb as its currently the best unlimited monthly payment going

http://www.news.astraweb.com/specials/kleverig-11.html

$11/mo
SSL
Unlimited downloads

I've never had a problem capping my connection's bandwidth or with the service.

At the moment astraweb has a $11 / month deal on which will give you unlimited downloads, 20 connections and ssl.
They have EU servers as well, I'm not sure if giganews has that.
http://www.news.astraweb.com/specials/kleverig-11.html

I use Astraweb. I took advantage of their 100gb "pay as you go" plan for $25. As of this moment, the amount of time you have to use the 100gb does not expire, which is one of the reasons I went with it.

You forgot Astranews astraweb.com , which probably belongs in the middle there somewhere. I like it anyway .

Just signed up recently myself due to that special deal they have. Cheap, fast and multiple (20) connections, good retention, nice completion percentage, SSL connections thrown in, and they have block accounts also. Great USENET service provider. Also finally signed up to newzbin; yes, I am aware of binsearch.info, but its cheap to pay for a subscription to newzbin. That combined with hellanzb makes grabbing binaries a breeze. Several of the big premium newsgroup providers, like giganews, are offering discount deals to AT&T, TimeWarner, Verizon, and Sprint users. Anyways the Astraweb deal is right here if anyone in interested: http://www.news.astraweb.com/specials/kleverig-11.html/

You forgot Astranews, which probably belongs in the middle there somewhere. (I like it anyway).

I have been a customer of Astraweb for several years because of their block plans and good prices. I have left my account unused for months and come back with every byte still there.

You can't get a candy bar for fifteen cents.

You can get fifty cent candies. They taste like shit though...

Uhh. 1.5 kB/s? That's really slow.

I get approximately 200 kB/s with a real usenet provider, like Astraweb.

I haven't yet found any good usenet servers in Europe though. I tried Eurofeeds briefly, but it was actually slightly slower, and they had an annoying policy of expiring download credits after 30 days. Other than that, it was acceptable.

I'm sure there are probably better or cheaper providers out there.

(I have no relation neither with Astraweb nor with Eurofeeds, except that I'm a current respectively former customer with those providers.)

Damn it feels good to be a gangsta (because gangstas account for such a large percentage of /. demographics) but I'm sure the little RIAA weasels would be careful to insure that they have properly licensed the song before having it played in the background as they beat the snot out of the CD duplicator.

Another lyrics site that works great is this one that is hosted at Astralabs.

If it simply doesn't work, I'll be demanding a full refund (from the place of sale) and writing the label a nastygram letting them know they've lost my business over it, much the same as I write my representatives nastygrams. If it damages my equipment (as some of these "protection" (read: strongarm) methods are purported to have the ability to do), you'd better believe I'll be in touch with a lawyer.
The Gza admonished us to check the labels, and I do. When I buy new, I consciously look for indie labels' releases before I look to majors.
If copy protection is the myopic way of the future, it'll be exclusively indies and the majors that don't employ copy protection that receive my spending dollars.