I found about Usenet and the sort of “hype” relative to it and I wonder some stuff.
Maybe I’m a bit old school but is this process not against the spirit of piracy,
- be generous to share
- fight against censorship and DCMA takedown
- work in a decentralized way
Just wondered it, if someone wants to give his opinion
Usenet is older than torrenting. Significantly older. Even older than the WWW IIRC… Every few years the newer generation “discovers it” and realizes you can totally saturate your connection, even with relatively obscure things that would typically need a significant number of seeds to be able to do.
And then it falls to the wayside again, because retention times kinda suck as no one wants to keep petabytes of data for ultra-long term. That and most of the indexers still alive today fucking suck.
@Xanza @foremanguy92_ with good providers retention is not really an issue. Different languages are.
You need to find a newsgroup provider with alt.binaries access and good retention.
Then you have to find a good indexer. Think of it like a torrent tracker but for Usenet nzbs
Then you need a snatcher like sabnzbd or something else.
But what’s your opinion about it, because don’t you think it’s opposed from the original torrenting piracy spirit?
As someone who used to download C64 games in the 1980s, from a BBS, trust me. Pirating existed decades before BitTorrent.
Decades.
What
Maybe I’m a bit old school but is this process not against the spirit of piracy,
be generous to share fight against censorship and DCMA takedown work in a decentralized way
I think your confusion is in thinking that Usenet is a centralized space. It isn’t. Yes, you need a provider, but if one does carry what you want, you go elsewhere.
Highly recommend reading the wiki articlenon Usenet.
what wiki article? just browsed and i’m not seeing anything other than a glossary entry
Sorry about the confusion. I meant Wikipedia.
Aha got it, thank you! Fwiw, you sent me down a rabbit hole on fmhy so I’m learning lots today.
I found about Usenet and the sort of “hype” relative to it and I wonder some stuff.
Usenet’s been around in its current form since 1987! The problem for pirates is finding decent providers who serve binaries. I used to use Easynews as they had great retention and they seem to still be around.
Usenet is decentralised, but - as mentioned elsewhere - relies on a handful of providers to service the binary groups.
usenet is decentralized at server level. In theory all the servers have the same content. Currently everything is obfuscated because of the take downs - so you need an indexer (the users upload the nzbs to that website. Think of a nzb like a .torrent file.)
If no one server carries all the parts of a multi-part, is that a legal loophole?
I somewhat agree. I think it’s fine people use usenet. But it’s not my cuppa tea. I’ll stick to torrents :).
Me too
