Are there ways to use usenet without a payment/subscription?

  • @flambonkscious
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    1 year ago

    I think it was newsbin? This was years ago admittedly…

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      Wow it really was ages ago if you mention newsbin as an indexer. Nowadays, indexer usually refers to privately run services that index nzbs for you. Most require a subscription fee, but are worth it because without them you can’t really find anything manually anymore since the file names are all obfuscated. This really helps prevent copyright takedowns.

      • @flambonkscious
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        11 year ago

        Yeah, I don’t think there were discrete indexers.

        I’ve missed a few rounds of cat and mouse