It’s been a while for me, but iirc most ISPs do offer their own servers. However, free Usenet servers are going to have very limited retention - in the order of days. The advantage of paid subscriptions is that they offer retention in the weeks or months.
Some universities also offer free news servers for their students.
The free servers usually don’t offer bin/audio/video groups, at least I don’t know any.
If the university cares about giving people information, then what is a larger source of information? Libraries are already exempt from certain aspects of intellectual property law. And educational use is one aspect of the test for fair use the courts use when determining if a use is fair use.
So it is weird possibly only because you or other people have been indoctrinated into thinking it is so, when in reality, its not far off the mark.
@dragonfly4933 It’s a source of information that gets the university sued, that’s what. Universities don’t want to be sued. Therefore they don’t put huge libraries of copyrighted material in a place where they can be freely accessed. End of story.
I’m not saying it’s “legal”, it’s certainly not. I’m just saying there is some framework in the law that allows for certain kinds of use beyond non educational uses.
That people know it’s obviously illegal, that a university redistributing information freely, is part of the problem. People should be much more biased in favor of less copyright law.
@dragonfly4933 Universities won’t run illegal-file sharing systems, because they are illegal. End of story. I’m sure they exist at universities, but not by universities. Whether copyright law should be weaker is irrelevant to the question of whether universities operate illegal-file sharing servers.
It’s been a while for me, but iirc most ISPs do offer their own servers. However, free Usenet servers are going to have very limited retention - in the order of days. The advantage of paid subscriptions is that they offer retention in the weeks or months.
Some universities also offer free news servers for their students.
The free servers usually don’t offer bin/audio/video groups, at least I don’t know any.
@pomi @sh3ll @vegivamp it would be very weird if a university would offer free copies of pirated content to its students
If the university cares about giving people information, then what is a larger source of information? Libraries are already exempt from certain aspects of intellectual property law. And educational use is one aspect of the test for fair use the courts use when determining if a use is fair use.
So it is weird possibly only because you or other people have been indoctrinated into thinking it is so, when in reality, its not far off the mark.
@dragonfly4933 It’s a source of information that gets the university sued, that’s what. Universities don’t want to be sued. Therefore they don’t put huge libraries of copyrighted material in a place where they can be freely accessed. End of story.
I’m not saying it’s “legal”, it’s certainly not. I’m just saying there is some framework in the law that allows for certain kinds of use beyond non educational uses.
That people know it’s obviously illegal, that a university redistributing information freely, is part of the problem. People should be much more biased in favor of less copyright law.
@dragonfly4933 Universities won’t run illegal-file sharing systems, because they are illegal. End of story. I’m sure they exist at universities, but not by universities. Whether copyright law should be weaker is irrelevant to the question of whether universities operate illegal-file sharing servers.
This is the correct answer.