TV's Frink said:

Well, considering how money is not supposed to be involved, I don't see why it should be required to acquire one of these projects.

We don't allow money to go to the project creator(s), why allow it to go to the newsgroup company?

I get what you're saying here. There are free trials for newsgroup access and 14 days is more than enough time to snag said releases from there but then people have to learn how to use a newsgroup reader and since most of them may not want to do that (simple as it is) they just want someone to post it for them.

I pay for my bandwidth as do those who are looking to download.

Newsgroups are the lesser of 2 evils in my opinion.