Hahah I was gonna come mention Usenet but glad you already did.
A month ago I was frustrated waiting on some torrent and decided to finally give Usenet a try. All I gotta say is - why didn’t I do this switch years ago???
Yearly rates for a provider and 2 indexers still doesn’t come close to the cost of all the streaming subscriptions you’d need to have the same library access. Coupled with the ability to use RSS feeds and other homelab services to essentially automate your collection, it’s just absolutely worth every penny.
But I wouldn’t know firsthand, because I’m a law abiding citizen, and this is all hypothetical. I just read about it on the internet somewhere.
Yeah there was a lot of googling duckduckgoing at first. In my case I decided to start out with NewsHosting as provider and nzbgeek as indexer. So far so good
Hahah I was gonna come mention Usenet but glad you already did.
A month ago I was frustrated waiting on some torrent and decided to finally give Usenet a try. All I gotta say is - why didn’t I do this switch years ago???
Because they usually cost money
Yearly rates for a provider and 2 indexers still doesn’t come close to the cost of all the streaming subscriptions you’d need to have the same library access. Coupled with the ability to use RSS feeds and other homelab services to essentially automate your collection, it’s just absolutely worth every penny.
But I wouldn’t know firsthand, because I’m a law abiding citizen, and this is all hypothetical. I just read about it on the internet somewhere.
Comparing to torrents
With usenet you’re not a distributor.
Usenet via SSL, with a provider that doesn’t log, over torrents any day. The anonymity level, speed, and retention is all worth it.
But they still are more expensive than torrents
So use torrents and get ridiculed by your date.
Oh yeah true, I kinda forgot about that since I’ve been so excited with the results :)
How do you get a provider though?
Yeah there was a lot of
googlingduckduckgoing at first. In my case I decided to start out with NewsHosting as provider and nzbgeek as indexer. So far so good