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

  • xenos@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    exactly this. I’m sure some of the larger hosts easily spend six figures per month just on the server infrastructure alone

    Usenet is super fast, safe, reliable, automated searching and downloading actually works. I gladly support my host

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      1 year ago

      100% - i get 40MB/s on Usenet, something i could only dream about on torrents…also i am in germany, torrenting is quite risky here.

      When i find something on usenet, it is there…period. I can get it. On torrents? Just because i found a magnet doesn’t mean there is anyone seeding it.

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        1 year ago

        Don’t you need to spread your accounts across multiple providers due to the partial uploads in other to get a complete archive?

        Last time I looked, ever the .par technology to deal with missing segments was useless. I got the impression I’d need multiple accounts to have a chance at getting a complete download

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              1 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.

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                1 year ago

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

                I’ve missed a few rounds of cat and mouse

      • Auli@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        This exactly I find something on usenet it is there. And I can download at full speed.

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        No problem hitting 110MB/s on decent German private trackers. Also everything worthy to keep (like highest resolution release available in case of series and movies) has been seeded, even when it’s been uploaded 10 years ago.

        Which trackers did you try? ‘Just because i found a magnet’ sounds like you’ve been on public trackers?

        But I’m with you, Usenet is overall less of a hassle.

    • AnAngryAlpaca@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Are they really? Usenet is from the 70s and build for text posts, which take less than 1kb of storage per Post. Modern Sites allow you to upload gigabytes of data for a few dollars per month. The cost for storage and traffic gas come down a lot