Oh yeah, many are US based or have direct US servers, so you're not paying a funny company in some part of the world you never heard of.
Usenet requires a lot of storage - it grows by terabytes a day and most big providers often have 5 years or more of past posts. Even the one I use has been around for decades.
Click to expand.Maybe 15 years ago, where you had to combine articles manually and run decoders on them to get the files, but these days, usenet clients like forte agen make life much easier if you post and browse, services like easynews link usenet to the web (I use them - no client required), and clients like sabnzbd make downloading lots of files easy.Īnd the big guys are very trustworthy - no gray market here.