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Time to go to usenet.
The beauty of torrents is it’s completely free to use (+ decentralisation rocks). Unfortunately usenet doesn’t have that.
Genuine question...why's this comment getting downvoted?
I use both torrents and usenet in my setup, and none of the usenet sites I frequent have done down like the big torrent sites in recent years. It seems like a reasonable suggestion.
Usenet is harder to use
Usenet is more expensive
As someone who's been around a while, I disagree. The tools now are so much easier than those when ISPs mirrored usenet, and the cost is so much less than just internet back then
The first rule of Usenet is: You don't speak of Usenet. They like being kept off the radar, but braggers can't help but bring it up every opportunity they get.
The Sonarr/Radarr/Lidarr/etc team, and their support forums/subreddit are seriously the worst about this. Nearly every question, concern, or request with regard to torrent trackers is met with a smug response about usenet.
Assholes have started exploiting Sonarr's torrent pulling system to trick it into downloading fucking malware on people's computers, and rather than acknowledge this is an issue their users are facing and they should try and do something to help them, they've done nothing, expecting users to deal with it in their clients and through addons. The implication is if you're not using usenet, they don't care what their software puts on your computer. It's your fault for using public trackers.
Is usenet the Arch of piracy? Like in every thread about torrents someone jumps in with "I use usenet btw"
I use Arch to access usenet.
I use torrents because they're free. A friend uses Usenet, and while it's a good service, they've got to pay for it.