

With torrents, it is generally considered to be a faux pas to not upload as well as download. Most private trackers will require that you maintain some sort of positive ratio in order to be in good standing.
In order to upload, you need to expose ports from your download client out to the internet so that others can reach you.
For news groups, you only download, so although your system is still able to reach the internet, your download client does not expose any ports to the internet.
Edit: I suppose what I was trying to communicate is that with news groups, you are at less risk for being nabbed for piracy than torrents. The nature of the torrent protocol means that you are uploading (or at least making available to upload) any data that you have already downloaded. For news groups, there is no upload.









Enterprise is really the only option companies like Anthropic and OpenAI have left. They’re drastically underpricing the service for what it costs to provide and users have shown that price hikes don’t fare well.
But enterprises? Well you just made AI a core part of your software development workflow, what are you supposed to do, start manually reviewing bitbucket merge requests? Rewrite your Jenkins pipelines? No, when the price hikes come, businesses will pay, and then downsize to reduce that opex.