Are most of you using Torrents or Usenet? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Knoxvomica@lemmy.ca to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I'm a bit surprised to see so many torrent posts. Are most people still using Torrents? Are most piracy users aware of programs like sonarr or radarr?

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[-] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Torrents. I don't really find Usenet worth the money. I can get most of the stuff I want on public sites. Some others I can get on private trackers. Never really felt the need to use Usenet. And as others have pointed out, the arr apps work great with torrents.

And honestly, I find it a little scummy to pay for content to people who don't own them. I don't think piracy in itself is unethical, but I if you take money for stolen content, that's not cool in my book.

[-] madnessman@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I get what you are saying about paying someone who doesn‘t own the content.

However I‘d argue that you are not paying them for the content, but just for hosting it on their servers. So its more like a tool, as is your VPN if you are torrenting. And most people wouldn‘t mind paying a VPN just to pirate content.

Usenet, I agree, might take you some time to get invites to the good indexers, especially if you don‘t want to pay immediately, but in the long run it‘s definitly worth it.

I havn‘t played arround with torrents for quite some time, whats the most popular setup for torrents atm?