Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com LoganNineFingers @lemmy.ca 4 mo. ago

best usenet group

Hello all,

I'm a huge amateur when it comes to this stuff (I had a guy hold my hand on the phone and walk me through this) but I use Newsgroupdirect and buy blocks when they go on sale.

Is there a better group to do this from (or cheaper). I'm happy here but I saw an article that had some different places listed and it got me thinking.

Which group do you use?

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While the cheapest reliable option is probably Frugal Usenet, I switched to Eweka while their Black Friday sale was active since its retention goes further back. I also use a Newsdemon block plan as a secondary usenet provider for releases that Eweka is missing portions of.
Newsdemon, $3.50/month unlimited. Start a trial account so that you can get to the plan upgrade page and you'll see that plan appear.

Here, use my referral link: https://members.newsdemon.com/?ref=12126166
- newsdemon is sadly just not that good with their selective retention when better alternatives are there at a similar price.
  
  For what specifically? I've had no issues with them.
Yes, frugal usenet. Buy a year for 40 or 50 bucks, get a free block. US servers, EU servers and a backup server too. All for less the 5 smackers a month.
Frugal Usenet and their free block news block. Never any problems.
blocks could be a bit restrictive unless you reliably download the same each month so you have predictable usage. if you ever deviate or find yourself having to hold back so you dont burn up your block, an unlimited account may be better and then you dont have to worry. unlimited is cheap enough now.
- Thank you. I am seriously considering this instead as I think I minimum spend around $40usd buying 4tb blocks on sale. If I forget to grab during a sale, that bumps to $45 per tb
I mainly use torrents but do have Usenet as a backup. I solely have a 4tb block also from NewsGroupDirect. I got it for like 7$ a couple years ago and am still working through it. It'll last a while. I've been pretty satisfied with availability and retention, although YMMV. if I could give advice it's that a lot of places do really good holiday/black Friday deals.
Long live torrents.
Paying for piracy is pointless and stupid. Piracy means free and solid access to content and paying for it means the complete subversion of that. 👎 👎

For that I would be better by just paying for some stupid streaming service and having something more convenient / not having to deal with anything.

Long live torrents.
- Are you 14?
  
  Are you 12?
- I used to pay for a VPN and torrent everything but I'll be honest, $ for $ it costs the same or less AND there is way more selection. I'm ok to pay a little for a better service. I don't have to figure out what's streaming on what and I get high quality tv and movies for pennies on the dollar. Even if I went the "free" route I still have to pay for a vpn
  
  I won't pay for piracy and that includes a pointless piece of shit VPN that won't protect you anyways if things get serious.
- Besides solid access to content piracy is also about a message, a statement about sovereignty, rights and freedoms and paying for it means the complete subversion of the ideal.
  
  Bruh, it's just stealing movies. You're not taking down The Man with your sick seed ratios. This line of thinking is how people become radicalized lmao
  
  But man, paying for pirated content? Even if you ignore everything else, it's over the line.
- Shit bait
- Don't know why everyone is shitting on you. You raise a good point. When did piracy become something you pay for?
  
  Do you have a beefier internet connection than you would have without pirating?
  
  Is the same true for a NAS/HDD?

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