http://www.keebler.net/blog/2005/11/16/guba-transcodes-usenet-binaries-to-ipod-video-competes-with-easynews/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:39:25 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.keebler.net/blog/2005/11/16/guba-transcodes-usenet-binaries-to-ipod-video-competes-with-easynews/comment-page-1/#comment-5814 Keebler/Blog » Blog Archive » Using Easynews to download full, HD-quality TV shows from Usenet Tue, 13 Mar 2007 01:49:24 +0000 http://www.keebler.net/blog/?p=331#comment-5814 [...] I talked about Easynews a couple years ago, and later, their competition from Guba. Basically, Usenet is a discussion system that’s been around almost as long as the Web and is mirrored across thousands of servers around the world. Some years back, people figured out how to post binary files (i.e. images, movies, and programs) on it by converting the bits of the file into words, posting them in the discussion groups, then distributing programs to reassemble them into files. This has reached a new level with Easynews. [...] [...] I talked about Easynews a couple years ago, and later, their competition from Guba. Basically, Usenet is a discussion system that’s been around almost as long as the Web and is mirrored across thousands of servers around the world. Some years back, people figured out how to post binary files (i.e. images, movies, and programs) on it by converting the bits of the file into words, posting them in the discussion groups, then distributing programs to reassemble them into files. This has reached a new level with Easynews. [...]

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