ISPs used to provide usenet access for free back in the day.
It’s a distributed federated system in which content is exchanged between different news servers. Clients connect to particular news servers which has to be hosted somewhere (and have a lot of storage space) which isn’t free to operate.
Torrents forgo all that and have clients directly connect to one another.
ISPs used to provide usenet access for free back in the day.
It’s a distributed federated system in which content is exchanged between different news servers. Clients connect to particular news servers which has to be hosted somewhere (and have a lot of storage space) which isn’t free to operate.
Torrents forgo all that and have clients directly connect to one another.