Sure, but with Usenet you don't have to worry about cheating or seeding. You just leech. But it isn't free (at least most providers aren't).
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Sure, but with Usenet you don't have to worry about cheating or seeding. You just leech. But it isn't free (at least most providers aren't).
Sure,I think is the main disadvantage of Usenet
The one main advantage of usenet is that there are files posted in the newsgroups that you can't find anywhere else. There have been a number of times that I've found something so rare that I had forgotten that it even existed. Most of the rare stuff would be difficult to find unless you use a NZB indexing site that offers a complete listing of everything in the binary groups. Newzbin is considered the best especially since they created the NZB format. Unfortunately they are in court battling the MPAA because of that. Luckily my ISP still provides free access to the binary groups.:biggrin:
Most ISP do provide some access to news groups and usually free, however they are usually mirrors and provide very limited access. they will show you the complete tree of what is there but not everything you will have access to.
If a file server has a policy of limited holding period as all do and just so happens you download one of those old files and dont complete it before expiry its too bad cos their will be no other copies uness you try to find it on another address.
With most usenet service, if you imagine this forum setup, but much more bland, eveyone has the ability to upload and download and put comments, ask questions, spam and flood, and troll. It is totally not moderated except for blocking by your service provider to certain addresses.
It may be a dinosuar in the computing world but certainly there are massive resources there ranging from games, scouts, religon, atrari fan, Microsoft fans and releases etc etc etc. Some come and go.
If there was one analogy of what news groups are in the financial world it would be forex. ed2k and bt would be akin to stock exchnge. In the martial arts world news groups would be akin to freestyle whereas ed2k and bt would be akin to a martial arts house. lol I should have used this in the Word Association Thread this would have been a good one ;)
Any way come join in everyone and show what you've got at the new Word Association thread
JustForToday doesn't have great speeds but it's a good way to get latest stuff. Their retention is only for 10 days but it's good alternative for people who have a hard time keeping ratios. Alot of times exclusive content from trackers is uploaded on usenet. So if you're not a member of a certain tracker but want to get their content, you can check out usenet.
Usenet is the best, believe me. I used to be a torrent user then I changed to rapidshare, megaupload thing... but eventually I discovered usenet.
I ended up buying a usenet explorer manager (the best in my opinion).
I use:
supersearch service from newzleecher,
NZBIndez,
Newzleech,
Binsearch,
NZB's, and
NZB matrix
to find what I'm looking for.
If you wanna give a try to usenet, download the newzleecher with the crack version, get a hotmail account and use it to get free accounts in these 2 sites:
:: Xennews ::
XLned - Usenet for everyone
They are free for about 1 week with good speeds. :wink2:
NOTE: After the accounts limit time, delete your cookies, create another hormail account and get another free accounts.
Good Luck!
What's the URL for JustForToday??:confused2:
Check the first page of this thread.
I used newzbin and giganews for 3 months, when I was building a 1080p movie collection. On no tracker would you be able to download 1000+ 1080p movies without getting banned, even with cheating :P
Giganews is fast. The only disadvantage is that it can be a bit harder than using torrents, and of course, the cost...still a lot cheaper than a seedbox or buying your movies legitimately though.
If u go 2 any private tracker they will present a disclaimer that they absolutely do not host any of the listed software, movies, music etc on thier servers, just the links. This is to deter copyright holders from sueing thier pants off.
But its strange that usenet services dont contain this disclaimer they boast that they have these same files on their server for download and At A Price of subscription.
I wonder how they get away with it ;)
A lot of trackers also have "you must have legal rights to the files" under their downloading rules, meaning the vast majority of us are breaking that rule and should be banned :tongue:
That's probably only some kind of "counter attack" should the authorities ever do something to the site. Needless to say, by the stage they're already seizing your servers and looking for the admins, it won't do anything.
Interesting comment. I've never wondered that, but you're right - Usenet servers do host the files. And in a worst-case scenario, they could end up being accused of profiting from piracy, as you need to pay for the login data that enables you to download.Quote:
But its strange that usenet services dont contain this disclaimer they boast that they have these same files on their server for download and At A Price of subscription.
No, I'm unready to pay for files :cool2:
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