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Re:Daily Usenet Feed Size Hits 300TB by joecool1029 on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @04:41PM (#40931269)
> Serious question: why does anybody use Usenet for pirating rather than torrents?

No need to seed which reduces legal liability and bufferbloat issues on lines with anemic upload speeds. Most torrent clients penalize peers that don't contribute to the swarm. It's also really convenient to plug in automated downloads with a decent index and sabnzbd.

Re:Daily Usenet Feed Size Hits 300TB by snickerbockers on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @05:46PM (#40931850)
>Most torrent clients penalize peers that don't contribute to the swarm

I agree with you and I also want to add that I've had problems with trackers penalizing me because i can't get my ratios up since hardly anybody is torrenting the same outdated 1980s mecha animes i am. I don't usually have troubles finding or downloading them because there's always at least one guy who has it on a seedbox running 24/7, but my ratio is guaranteed to be stuck at 0.0 forever.

I actually got autobanned from a private tracker once because i downloaded a bunch of comic books which were all miniscule in terms of size and also extremely niche. this series was being distributed as one issue per torrent instead of a big archive torrent, with each torrent being on the order of a few MB. which resulted in me having several dozen torrents with a 0.0 ratio and therefore looking like a leech.

Re:Daily Usenet Feed Size Hits 300TB by pwg on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @06:15PM (#40932040)
> I agree with you and I also want to add that I've had problems with trackers penalizing me because i can't get my ratios up since hardly anybody is torrenting the same outdated 1980s mecha animes i am.

Small trick. Pick one, popular, item that everyone wants now, pull it down and seed it. That will add to your ratio which can then be used to grab the obscure stuff that is hard to seed.

Re:Daily Usenet Feed Size Hits 300TB by szundi on Thursday July 11, 2024 @02:51AM (#40934224)
Download free popular ones and keep them forever to seed.
Re:Daily Usenet Feed Size Hits 300TB by RockRobotRock on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @05:17PM (#40931570)
Automating *arr with torrents isn't too bad depending on which trackers you use.
Re:Daily Usenet Feed Size Hits 300TB by woleium on Friday July 12, 2024 @08:56PM (#40950871)
especially if you use debrid/premiumize