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Re:Daily Usenet Feed Size Hits 300TB by blitzar on Thursday July 11, 2024 @04:39AM (#40934725)
Serious question: why does anybody use torrents for pirating rather than Usenet?

100% (down) bandwidth saturation, no VPN, no letters from lawyers, and no using my (asymetrical) upload - what is not to like?

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Re:Daily Usenet Feed Size Hits 300TB by theshrike79 on Friday July 12, 2024 @08:30AM (#40944916)
Usenet is a bit of a weird place to get into.

You need to find an indexer, the best ones you need to pay for or get an exclusive invite.

Then you need to find a news provider, and pay them too.

On top of that you need software that can plug into the indexer and the server and actually download the stuff.

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