Comment on Anon sets the mood

• Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Because they usually cost money

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  • wesker@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Comparing to torrents

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      • Pringles@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        With usenet you’re not a distributor.

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      • wesker@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Usenet via SSL, with a provider that doesn’t log, over torrents any day.

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  • kasuaaliucceli@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Oh yeah true, I kinda forgot about that since I’ve been so excited with the results :)

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• ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Shit goes missing after like a year

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  • kasuaaliucceli@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    IIRC that might have been the reason I previously disregarded the idea of trying Usenet. However if it’s not on Usenet, one can always fall back to torrents :p Haven’t had to do that yet. *knocks on wood*

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    • threeduck@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      “Who is it?”

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  • threeganzi@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What goes missing? You don’t know how Usenet works.

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    • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The files are not stored indefinitely, retention is based on the provider

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      • MrNobody@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Retention for 90%+ of providers is at least 4500 days for binary files and 110000 days for newsgroups. Have two providers, one monthly and one block, that run on different backbones with one that takes down for dmca and one that doesn’t and you’ll be fine. There are very very very few shows or movies that you can’t get. Don’t have to worry about VPN, ratios, trackers or any of that other crap.

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      • threeganzi@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Thanks! And sorry, I meant to say that I don’t know how Usenet works, not you.

        Follow-up question. Why is retention so important? Wouldn’t they get reloaded again? Or is it mainly a problem for more obscure content.

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• Sat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  How do you get a provider though?

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  • kasuaaliucceli@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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

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