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Usenet Audio
Carel writes "Everybody who has done some streaming knows the downside: as soon as you're getting popular the costs are getting sky-high. While there have been some efforts in the P2P area these didn't have the impact they need. Enter Usenet Audio, a project that uses the existing, distributed and proven Usenet as its medium. Check the site for details and for the beta-versions of the software (which is available for Linux, OS X and MS platforms)."
Usenet Audio joins an esteemed coterie of previous spectacular endeavors including Usenet Porn, Usenet Warez, Usenet Fashion Magazines, and Usenet Moderated Nonviolent Underwater Images.
"Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?"
But nobody using Windows reads usenet.
http://mediagoblin.org/
I assume this would apply to songs written by or mentioning Nazis?
These April fools joke articles are killing me! Please put me out of my misery.
Might as well pull a joke on myself now, Slashdot my page!
Oh the shame... I will be the fool.
Damnit Michael, just stop. They just aren't funn- oh wait, this isn't a April fool's article. Carry on :)
PS: The moderation you're looking for is "funny", and not "troll"
Everything seemed to be going so nice
'till the end of all beings punched right through the ice
...messaging functionality! Imagine that! USENET used for messaging! Who needs flying cars?
"You light up my life, you give me hope, to carry on."
Namaste
These stories are lame. Therefore, rather than spending time working productively, playing with the kids, or having meaningful dialogue with my spouse, I am going to spend my time closely monitoring /. today so that I can rapidly post whiny comments every time a new (lame) story is posted.
Did I mention the stories are lame?
Simple Unexpected Concrete Credible Emotional Stories
You do realise that the browser you are currently using can be pointed at pr0n when /. gets boring, don't you?
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!! this was the last domain that the plebian masses didn't know about. now they're goign to ruin hands down the best source out there.
napster was great and all but if your mom hadn't heard about it then we'd still be downloading from it.
and we gotta endure a whole 24 hours of these posts over and over?
Ugh, shoot me now...
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Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
If you had any less of a life, you would be undead.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
"Remember that 2nd terabyte server we were going to put in for the newsgroups archive search? HURRY!!!"
All I want is a kind word, a warm bed and unlimited power.
and I was aiming for a +5 funny. Darn.
http://thechubbyferret.net - Ferret pictures and informative links.
Usenet is a text-based medium; music is binary. To attempt to move music, or any binary data via Usenet would be a hack on top of a kludge. Usenet is 7-bit, music is 8, so it would have to go through some kind of awkward encoding/decoding process to even survive the delivery. Furthermore Usenet is notoriously unreliable, so get ready for lots of missing data. Usenet also blindly sends posts all over the world. This is fine for small text messages, but to send large binary files to a server where nobody may want them would be a huge waste of bandwidth.
There are far, far better ways to move music around. Streaming audio, P2P, even FTP would be far better choices. These guys must be mad to even consider this.