Usenet News

Usenet and usenet industry news collected here. Articles are listed in reverse chronological order.

• MegaUpload Servers To Be Cleared Out Soon – Legit Users Getting Aid

• 2011 Just The Usenet Basics Award: Supernews

• Newzbin2 Relocates From .Com To .Es

• 2011 Most Anonymous/Private Usenet Provider Award: Astraweb

• 2011 Best Deal/Valued Usenet Provider: UsenetServer

• 2011 Top Quality Usenet Provider Award: Giganews

• 2011 Most Improved Usenet Provider: Newshosting

• Announcing The 2011 UsenetReviewz Awards

• SOPA And PIPA Losing Steam, But Nothing Is Guaranteed Yet

• Those Who Live In Glass Houses – Are Legislators Pirating

• Golden Frog Shows Off Dump Truck Storage Servers

• Surfers Trust Usenet Information More Than Online Sources

• NZB Leech For Android Now Available – For Free

• Newshosting Ends The Year By Releasing Their Newshosting Client From Beta

• Giganews Announces WebDAV For All Dump Truck Customers

• Hard Disk Issues Takes Binsearch.info Offline For A While

• The Christmas Sale Continues – Newzbin Keeps The Deals Coming

• Internet Censorship, Blacklisting, And Blocking – A Taste Of Things To Come

• NewsLeecher Adds In A New SuperSearch It, And Gets The Holiday Spirit

• Merry Christmas! Easynews Is giving Us More NNTP Retention, And Paypal Option

• Giganews Announces A VyprVPN App Is Available

• Giganews Adds Fully Functional Dump Truck Access For ALL Their Accounts

• Merry Downloading Christmas – The Best Of The Usenet Holiday Specials

• Like Your Remotes? Check Out NBRemote Newsbins’ New Control

• The SOPA Soap: A Story Of Bad Legislation Gone Too Far

• NZBsRus Beats FACT CAD Letter And Is Back Online

• SOPA Just Keeps Getting Less Popular – Even In Europe

• Net Neutrality: How Google Is Planning On Cleaning Up

• Press and Internet Freedom Under Attack Again – In S. Africa This Time

• Black Friday Usenet Deals 2011

• Giganews Announcement: 1,200 Days Of Retention

• A Remote For Newsbin: NBRemote Is In Development

• Nzb Matrix Server Problems Lead To New Hardware Upgrades

• UK Continues The Censorship Spree And Goes After NZBsRus

• NZBVortex Improves Their MacOSx Client

• British Telecom Censors Newzbin2

• SABConnect++: Instant SABnzbd Access For Chrome Users

• SABSheep – An Android NZBMatrix Browser With Some Cool Features

• Now You Can Monitor Your NZB Downloads In Firefox Using nzbdStatus

• Online Storage Provider Dumptruck Starting Early Access Accounts

• Newsbin Announces Release Of Version 6.11 RC1

• Newshosting Announces The Release Of New Client Version

• Marquee Hard Drive Joins POPCORN Hour With Their New Media Center

• Dutch Court Rules Against Usenet Provider News Service Europe

• Golden Frog’s New Header Control And User Interface Updates Released

• New Newsbin Client Update: Pro 6.1 Goes Remote

• Newshosting Client Comes Out Of Beta Testing – Free For Members Now

• Popcorn Hour A – 210: A Server for Your NZB’s

• How Usenet Looked 30 Years Ago

• New Mobile Phone Apps for Sabnzbd Released

• Easynews Ups Their Retention Levels Again

• Newzbin Versus Big Telecom

• Eminent Launches EM7280 Media Player With Usenet Features

• New VyprVPN Server location in France

• USENET Provides More Resources than in Past r1

• Unlimited USENET Widely Available

• Spain Fires on Pirates

• NewsDemon Hits 3 Years of Binaries

• Google USENET Service Drops

• New Version of NZBVortex Supports Mac OS 10.7 Lion

• Law Enforcement Data Leak in Arizona – Is LulzSec the Culprit?

• Find a Free Newsreader Client from One of these Usenet Providers

• Get A Free Giganews T-Shirt

• Find Your Favorite Newsreaders, Newsleecher and Newsbin, on Your iPad, iPhone, or Android

• Is the File Sharing Religion in Sweden Legitimate?

• Mimo Improves Their User Interface Again

• SABnzbd Releases Mobile Phone Applications For Usenet

• Giganews Announces Beta Testing For Online Personal Storage

• Supernews Updates Retention Again

• Easynews Jumps to 1050 Days of Binary Retention

• Newsbin Pricing To Be Increased

• Giganews Summer Special Just Launched

• Easynews Announces 100 Gigs Free Trial!!

• Easynews and Astraweb reach 1000 days binary retention

• Newshosting and UsenetServer reach 1000 days binary retention

• Giganews Has Announced Their 1,000 Day Retention Contest Winners.

• Giganews Breaks 1000 Days Retention and Contest Winners Announced

• Easynews Announces Affordable NNTP Only Plan

• Giganews Special Discount from UsenetReviewz

• UsenetServer, Newshosting and Easynews Retention Increases

• Introducing Binload: Free Usenet Access For Beta Test Volunteers

• Giganews Announces Personal Storage Space

• Newsbin 6 Beta 4 New Features And Interface

• Giganews Special Offer Ending At End Of Month

• Giganews Announces Prizes for Signing Up and 1000 day competition.

• Giganews Gives Up Discounts For VyprVPN Users

• Usenet’s Decentralized Communication Model

• NewsgroupDirect Starts New Memberhip Rewards Program For Twitter Users

• Newshosting Introduces New Tool To Assist In Account Selection

• NewsLeecher Introduces SuperSearch Watchdog

• What Hierarchies on Usenet are Casual?

• Ngroups Now Offering Over 900 Days Binary Retention

• Web Forums vs. Usenet

• Astraweb Announces Higher Download Speeds

• Giganews Announces The Release Of Mimo v2.0, And Upcoming Improvements

• How The New Giganews Security Works Using VyprVPN

• Giganews Launches More Secure Protocols, Eliminates Man-In-Middle Attack

• Easynews Announces Improved Search Speeds And Web Interface

• Newshosting Offers A Discount Deal Newshosting

• Easynews Announces New Dutch Interface, And Now, Paypal Too

• Giganews Increases to 900 Days Retention

• Easynews Adds iPhone And Android 3rd Party Apps

• Giganews extends Diamond pricing until March 31st, 2011

• Easynews Improvements

• FastUsenet.org wins Best New Usenet Provider for 2011

• Newshosting wins Best Total Package Deal 2011

• Newsdemon wins Most Innovative Provider Award for 2011

• Easynews wins Easiest Usenet Solution for 2011

• Supernews Wins Our Best European Deal 2011

• Astraweb Wins Our Best Value Award for 2011

• UsenetServer Wins our Best Deal Award 2011

• Giganews Wins Our Best Overall Provider for 2011

• UsenetReviewz’s 2010 – The Year in Review

• Giganews Announces An Extension Of The $29.99 Special

• Supernews Accepting Ideal Payments

• Easynews now accepting Paypal

• 4 Days Left for Giganews Discount

• Sabnzbd reaches 2 million downloads in 3 years

• Usenet community FTD Not Guilty

• Overview of recent EasyNews upgrades

• Astraweb takes the lead with 4 billion Usenet Message headers

• NewsLeecher 4.0 Final Released

• Overview of great Usenet mobile applications

• Newzleech is no more

• Exclusive discount coupon codes from NewsDemon

• Newshosting Partners with Easynews

• Giganews revamps their referral program

• Binreader Review

• NewsLeecher v4.0 Beta 21 released

• comp.sys.laptops.thinkpad: new IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad newsgroup

• Black Friday Specials

• NewsDemon’s block accounts now with no time limit

• Golden Frog released NAT Firewall feature

• New prices from Giganews

• Beta release of Mimo and Golden Frog Usenet Search now available

• HADOPI law “catches” 25.000 pirates each day

• New Servers at Astraweb

• NZBVortex 1.6.1 released

• Binsearch reaches 900 days of retention

• Better retention and free online storage from Ngroups

• Newshosting Lite plan now with 50 GB

• Giganews reaches 800 days of binary retention

• Newsdemon Premium Usenet service for free

• Ngroups.net celebrates Octoberfest 2010

• The pros and cons of USENET

• Merlin’s Portal is back online

• Golden Frog revised their VyprVPN website

• September 2010 Usenet Newz

• NewsDemon offers 50% of discount on premium USENET access

• News Rover released new version

• UseNetServer upgrades retention to 650 days

• Sneak Peek: New Easynews Interface

• USENET newsgroups and Google groups – what’s the difference

• NewsDemon retention increases Sept 2010

• Newshosting Upgrades Retention Sept 2010

• SABnzbd Software Updates For Sept 2010

• Improving programming skills with USENET Newsgroups

• Supernews Upgrades Service to 500 Days Retention

• UseNetServer Upgrades Their Website

• August 2010 Usenet Newz

• Giganews World Cup Special Ending

• July 2010 Usenet News

• June 2010 Usenet News

• May 2010 Usenet News

• Newshosting Special Offers and Giganews Updates

• Bit Torrents Poisoned ? Better Try Usenet

• Coxs Drops Their Usenet Service

• VyprVPN Updates

• Newzbin Found Guilty

• Newshosting updates their Usenet plans

• VyprVPN added to Giganews Diamond Plan

• Retention Rates On The Rise

• LimeWire is closing its online music store

• 2010 NANOG Meeting

• Newzbin Under Fire

• Mac USENET downloading tips

• France Getting Tough on Anti-Piracy

• Secure Internet Access in China with VyprVPN

• Black Friday Usenet Specials

• Is Astraweb Slow

• Newshosting Unlimited and Website Relaunch

• Usenet Retention Increases

• September Usenet News and Usenet Giants

• Usenet Net Neutrality

• Verizon Usenet Specials

• Supernews Upgrades their Usenet Service

• Usenet News for August

• Usenet Resource Downloader

• Giganews Binary Retention Increases

• Power Usenet Service Upgrades

• ThunderNews Upgrades

• Giganews Connection Increase

• ATT Discontinues Usenet Access

• Advantages of Usenet

MegaUpload Servers To Be Cleared Out Soon – Legit Users Getting Aid

We told you about the massive file sharing bust that the FBI conducted in the past few weeks concerning MegaUpload and their servers on several continents. Well, a lot of our readers have asked the burning question, “What about the legit files, can we get those back?” And we are keeping up with the situation, [...]

2011 Just The Usenet Basics Award: Supernews

Just as the name implies, this award of for the Usenet provider that provides the best basics…simply access. We don’t count all the newsreaders that go with the service, or the extras, like Giganews’ Dump Truck access, we count only the servers, speeds, retention rates, dependability, and service…pure, simple, Usenet access. And this year, we [...]

Newzbin2 Relocates From .Com To .Es

If your favorite is Newzbin, and you’ve tried to access their website at newzbin2.com and recieved something like what we are showing to the right…DO NOT PANIC. Newzbin2 at their .com address doesn’t exist anymore, but they do exist at newzbin2.es. They said in an announcement that there were starting to be issues in the [...]

2011 Most Anonymous/Private Usenet Provider Award: Astraweb

Astraweb takes this category by storm, hands down. They are one of our top providers, very popular. One of the largest concerns at Astraweb is that of the anonymity and privacy, and in spite of the fact that they have server farms in both the U.S. and Europe, they do not appear to be under [...]

2011 Best Deal/Valued Usenet Provider: UsenetServer

In our best deal category we have selected UNS this year. Their quality of service, coupled with the features they offer, combine to make their offerings hard to beat on the Usenet circuit. With all their accounts having only unlimited access, (excepting their 3 day and free trial,) the pricing tier becomes a simple matter [...]

2011 Top Quality Usenet Provider Award: Giganews

For the last 12 months the marriage between Golden Frog and Giganews has been one that all their membership has enjoyed immensely…if the postings and raves are to be believed. They started out in 1994 with high quality newsfeeds, and have done nothing but move up from there. In the beginning it was tough, we’re [...]

2011 Most Improved Usenet Provider: Newshosting

For more than 10 years Newhosting has been providing service to their members with pride and concern for the wants and needs of them. And in the last 12 months, these guys have performed above and beyond the call of duty all year. Early in the year they got the ball rolling with increases in [...]

Announcing The 2011 UsenetReviewz Awards

Okay folks, 2012 has a had a great start for all of us here at UsenetReviewz, and we are hoping it has been just as good of a start for you as it has been for us. There were lots of great announcements coming out of the Consumer Electronics Show…lots of cool gadgets and new [...]

SOPA And PIPA Losing Steam, But Nothing Is Guaranteed Yet

We’ve been telling you about the proposals in Congress designed to reduce or eliminate the online piracy and copyright infringement problems. We’ve also told you how that while the cause is a great one, the methods outlined in these bills will potentially destroy the internet as we know it. The DNS system that the bills [...]

Those Who Live In Glass Houses – Are Legislators Pirating

We’ve been telling you all about the proposed anti-piracy bills that are in congress, SOPA and the PROTECT IP act. They were sent to committee, where we hope they will die, but in the meantime, we thought we would give the lawmakers a little more incentive to kill these bills. There have been reports stating [...]