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How to Usenet? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by CriticalMiss@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Hello,

I tried in the past to wrap my head around usenet, and I bought access to some news downloader (iirc it was called that way not sure, but it was Eweka) and tried using it, the problem was that every download I tried to get was dead on arrival (link being dead, failing to verify file integrity) yet so many people on piracy forums swear by Usenet and claim that for ~$60 a year they get a much more superior experience than torrents, and yet, I currently torrent everything with no issues at all.

The reason for trying Usenet that when attempting to search some less popular TV shows/movies, I could not always find it in the quality I wanted to see, and therefore decided to give it a try.

Any suggestions?

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[–] BuffLettuce@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I use Eweka, I have 5 trackers including nzbgeek and drunken slug, set up with SabNZB, and Sonarr for shows. I manually do movies by searching with NZBHydra. Shit is great man. I find everything old and new. I think you just need to mess with your setup. Usenet is 10000x better then trying to torrent everything. Torrent is great for like... Mass.downloading some older stuff maybe, but Usenet has everything you need. Yarrrr

[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How is it better than just going to a torrent search site? It has a lot more content?

[–] TrenchcoatFullofBats@belfry.rip 3 points 1 year ago

More content and also much longer retention - many providers retain files for 4000+ days (11 years).

It doesn't matter if that one guy in Macedonia is still seeding, if it's on a server with good retention, you'll get it immediately and at very fast, non-Macedonian speeds.

[–] BuffLettuce@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Usually. I would also say it has "Different" content. its also usually faster as your not relying on seeds/leachers

[–] nyk@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Usenet is paid, right? Can you find free resources there?