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I'm a bit surprised to see so many torrent posts. Are most people still using Torrents? Are most piracy users aware of programs like sonarr or radarr?

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[–] open_door@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've never used Usenet... I'm really not familiar with it, tbh. I just DDL or stream everything lol.

[–] DarthNinja@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] 20gramsWrench@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

DirectDownLoad, is used to describe sites that offer download links without needing special software or protocols, might require lots of clicking through ads and downloading big files in multiple parts on different sites, since file hosts usually give a size limit to the files, think megaupload back in the day, you often hear the term warez for those too

[–] DarthNinja@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Great thank you very much!

[–] uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm with you. Hoping to be enlightened.

[–] mikemikemikemike@lemmy.pt 3 points 1 year ago

Direct DownLoad

I tried Usenet, wasn't a big fan of it, to be honest.

The way I see it, unless you live in a country where your traffic is constantly moderated for torrent traffic, there's no reason to not use torrents.

Also, IPv6 torrenting is for the most part unmoderated by ISPs, my friend who lives in California only torrents via IPv6 on qBit and he had gotten 0 emails from his ISP. However, YMMV depending on country.