Anyone use Usenet?? Is it good??
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Anyone use Usenet?? Is it good??
yh but u have to pay for it
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have you used newsgroups before? its like that but you get almost everything
it's more like seedbox vs. usenet because torrents are free of charge normally.
Usenet sucks.Just stick with torrents.
However, you can use a limited version of it and its usually free as in comes with the package. Ask your ISP about their offering of newsgroups, they usu dont charge anything extra 4 it.
I heard good things about UseneXt. Don't have any personal experiences tho
You want to try Usenet for free? Have a look at this:
Just4Today.NET - Free Usenet
The username and password only work for one day. ~10 days retention. And if you need NZBs (the equivalent of .torrents), FST is a great place to get them.
I have heard some people say it's a scam, a few that it's great, and some others that it's good but not the best... :rolling_eyes:
If you're wanting to go with Usenet, I personally would recommend you try either Giganews or Astraweb. Lately I've been using Astraweb as I can buy bandwidth chunks instead of paying a set fee per month, I think it's $25 for 180GB or $10 a month unlimited. Very useful for me considering I only have 90GB downloads per month, and they have either European or USA servers for you to choose from (with SSL or SSL v2 if necessary).
To get the NZB files (think .torrent files, but for Usenet) I either use Binsearch (free) or Nzbmatrix (once off payment).
Bit-Torrent is my only file sharing sharing. I haven't tried any other but i'm hoping
What is the difference between Usenet and Newsgroups ?And also what are NZBs ? Another way than BT and Usenet ?
Please someone clear it for me :rolleyes2:
NZBs are files just like rar and zip are file. They usually appear on usenets and are used by news readers and can automatically be reassembled into their complete whole.
Usenet is the collective name for news groups
NZB being particular to usenets an be differentiated to yEnc as one is a file and the latter is plain text just like mime used in email.
However, if your talking about efficiency you cannot go past tried and tested p2p because usenets are centralised in data storage and requires that the servers have massive bandwidth to serve everyone from the servers where as each client in a p2p can act as a server too
i downloaded some appz all are reported as infected with trojan...
won't pay for this... i'l stay with trackers
SBI provides a huge range of mods and tools buy expert coders. You have everything at your finger tips here :). Why would you want to go elsewhere? :wink:
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i downloaded some appz all are reported as infected with trojan...
won't pay for this... i'l stay with trackers
I don't think he's talking about cheating applications:unsure:Quote:
SBI provides a huge range of mods and tools buy expert coders.
Usenet is the network, newsgroups are where discussion (or binaries) are posted.
NZBs are roughly the equivalent of .torrent files, I explained it above.
Other ways of downloading other than BitTorrent and Usenet..? There are a lot :wink:
Get your NZBs from sites where users upload them instead of scripts, FST for example. This way you're much less likely to download an infected app.
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:
best regards
I used it in the beginning when it was new.. but than i switched to torrent.
In my oppinion its a waste of money.. cause u can get the same files for free..
One-click-hosters too have the data, and they sell premium access for it. All in the end, Usenet and one-click-hosters "share" the same business method.
They defend themselves saying that they can't be held responsible for users actions because they only provide access to usenet, and acts like a mail carrier. (for posts ~ uploads)
-Same principle goes eventually with RS
Does it make the difference if you don't sell it for everyone? Still, if really large group is paying for it, provider profits from it. Then the situation is almost the same.
But what I cannot understand is: on Usenet there is the some content that you can find on the torrent network or there is even mome rare content like on emule?
In theory, anyone can post a binary for any file, but from what I know, you'll mostly find newer stuff. Even so, the most retentive providers hold posts for 600-700 days before deleting them.
I used before years usenet but after torrents be well known to all its not worth the cost that must pay for it.It has very good speeds but the torrents is a different philosophy and i love it.
Many pay for seedbox for be good in torrent trackers.But hei wake up just RM and you can do everything without pay nothing.
Look how the things have.With speed 2mb/s and 250kbps up i cant do nothing for keep my ratio in good mood.So my i must use cheats for keep it good.But i upload in rapidshare and in gamato.info before it closed with my low speed.I love to share but with this speed here in Greece i cant do nothing.
I was just poking some fun at you, because that's how I am. :gtongue:
I know upload speeds aren't the best for many of us, and it'd definitely be hypocritical from me to criticize your cheating. :gsmile: