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Usenet and Debrid (lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz)

I have been doing torrents + VPN for years now and thinking about switching.

Is usenet and debrid safe to use without a VPN in the UK? What about other piracy streaming sites?

From what I understand it's cheaper to use a VPN than have debrid + usenet + private indexers but I am not sure.

I have heard some questionable justifications as to why it's safer such as it being encrypted (torrents can also be encrypted). Are the index sites also safe? I have heard it both ways about this. Including people saying index sites are not encrypted which they normally are.

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[-] kokesh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Is there a way to download from Usenet for free?

[-] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago

No, since bandwidth isn't free. It's necessary to pay for usenet like it's necessary to pay an ISP and a VPN provider. Their services cost them money.

[-] SmokeFree@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

usenet farm gives 10gb per email. Downloading new contents or new nzbs, no issues. Old contents, not so much.

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