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[-] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I prefer usenet. Higher speeds, no uploading, privacy, encrypted connections. Together with Sonarr and Radarr it works flawlessly. Future fils and series episodes are automatically downloaded, extracted, renamed and moved to the right folder which shows up as newly added content in Kodi. Takes a bit of time to set up, but having Kodi instead of a streaming service with all content added automatically is a bliss.

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago

I don't think I can get higher speeds that what I get in my private tracker. It's basically only capped by my home Internet speed. And I like the uploading and the sense of community and sharing with eachother. It's virtually not an issue to keep the ratio high enough. The rest is like the are services, they work the same.

[-] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

Over here uploading and downloading is illegal, but downloading isn't being fined. Uploading though, can be dangerous as you can get hefty fines. You can also upload on usenet, as it is filled with posts from others, but as it's all encrypted and put on servers instead of being directly downloaded by people from your drive, the worst that could happen is it being removed from the servers. There's a large community, with many smaller communities. Just like with torrents. Just less malware, less junk, less risk.

My max internet speed is 1Gbit/s upload and download. Usenet usually downloads with 70MB/s (restricted by the operating and writing speeds of my NAS which runs everything 24/7) while torrents usually don't go higher than 20MB/s when seeded properly.

[-] Lucky73@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

How would one go about using Usenet for pirating? This is the first time I've heard about it being used like that and not in old web forums

[-] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

It's possible to do it for free, but I pay a monthly fee of €7,50 at Eweka (they have a really long retention) and next to that I pay 2x €10 per year for indexers.

There are setup guides online like this and this one for usenet specifically.