What kind of people still use Usenet?

What kind of people still use Usenet?

Is it good for anything other than old scene releases?

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Demographics seem to be those who were in .mil or .edu in the 80's, often rather academic.
Usenet is good for communicating in text only as HTML posters are shunned. It is very efficient since serious newsreaders have kill files. Headers provide for tags and summaries long before Web 2.0 was a thing.

Usenet died when jewgle bought that one Usenet indexing site and datamined the living fuck out of it and everything else.

Don't you need to pay to access it?

I lurk on comp.lang.c

There's a guy on there that combines programming with religious psychosis. Reminds me of Terry.

People that want hd rips to download faster than they can watch it.

Sonarr, Radarr, and Lidarr were designed to use Usenet first and Torrents as an after thought. I've been using Usenet for about 10 years now. If you're actually going to the Indexer site you're a fucking moron and doing Usenet wrong. Usenet for automating. I hardly ever interact with my box outside of adding new shit in. The Android application Nzb360 is absolutely amazing for adding shit in on the fly with the phone.

As for actual discussions on Usenet. I doubt much of this still exists, the problem Newgroups had back in the 90s was unceasing and unrelenting spam. There was no tools for mitigating or removing it. Usenet is like multiplayer E-mail without any sort of spam guards. It went to shit once Endless September started taking off in earnest. I used Usenet back in the 90s for discussion but I would NEVER do so now, everything you write is there for eternity. The Derek Smart flamewars are there from the 1990s as an example of retention rates. Allowing such a snapshot of me to remain on the internet indefinitely is a vulnerability I refuse to allow.

I was semi directed here from /ptg/. Usenet is just like the good old days of megaupload and rapidshare but you pay for the service? Why would anybody use this?

You only pay for it if you haven't got a clue.

Would you say that NZB360 is better than Sab? If so, why?

Sabnzbd is a downloading program, Nzb360 is for accessing the various services you have running.

How do I avoid paying for it?

>Nzb360
I get it, I just don't get the appeal. I never want to remotely download something if I'm not on my computer, but I can see how it'd be useful to someone else.

I was trying to remember why I stopped using Usenet for discussion back in the late 90s and you summed it up. Every group was just full of spam.

With all the kids nowadays getting excited for using it instead of torrents was wondering myself if anyone still used it for actual discussion and why I stopped using it.

So it's dead for actual discussion and only good if you want it as an alternative to torrenting yes?

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Superior alternative*

Fixed that for you.

My media tastes are completely mainstream I have never not been happy with the content on the top 5 public torrent trackers for movies/tv and spotify for music. I pay for my games from steam or gog.

So it's still just alternative for me rather than superior alternative. Unless it offers something public trackers don't like currently in theatre movies in 1080p?

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Reading your broken English was fucking testing. It is superior because it has practically all of the same content except with faster speeds.

I suppose what he meant is using one of those free providers with very short retention. But if you are automatically downloading everything anyways this isn't going to matter. I personally use quality providers and pay them the money, because in general I think it's worth it and I can easily afford it.

Usenet pros:
- fast speed
- more anonymity
- superior tooling (but more difficult to setup)

cons:
- automated DMCA take downs are a thing and some companies are quite successful with ruining the fun. For example I use two different providers and I still struggle sometimes with major Netflix releases. I think the main issue is, if the initial upload went to a bad provider and they could take it down before it completely spread to the good providers.

My cheap ass 16 Euro a month seedbox/plex server downloads the largest content I want (1080p movies) in about 3 - 4 mins tops from the big public trackers which is perfectly acceptable. Still struggling for personal reasons to use usenet (or even private torrent trackers) other than it's what the cool kids are doing.

What specific content does it have that is superior? Will I find 1080 HD rips of movies much sooner than on public torrent trackers?

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I wasn't referring to free providers with very short retention, sorry. I've about 2800 days or something; it's so large, I neglect to take in the actual figure.

What the fuck is this shit, amn't I oldfag enough?

More difficult to set up? It's the most straightforward thing ever...

I was going by the context you laid out earlier - "My media tastes are completely mainstream".

I already stated that you will have practically all of the same content except with faster speeds. Paying for a stinkbox VS free Usenet with 0 overheads; it's not that difficult to see why it's superior. I would rather wipe my ass with 16 yuros every month than waste it on a pay-to-pirate seedbox.

Don't get me wrong, torrents do have their place, but not as the primary source for downloading.

Seebox is it's like secondary or third use. It's mainly used as a VPS for various projects which I would still have regardless of the fact the providers are weed smoking Dutch hippies who couldn't give a rat's ass about U.S. companies DMCAs etc.

You're arguing a point that I'm not though. You asked about the difference and I outlined them. Free and better VS paid for solution that's slower / relying on Brazilians having their stink ass computer on 24/7. Also again, I'm guessing English isn't your first language.

I did a quick check there for you, it was 3400 days retention.

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Nzb360 is useful for when you're out with friends and they recommend a movie or show to you. I have a tendency to forget offhand recommendations like that. Just the movie/show in the app and the movie is already on the box when you get home.

Again, the effort of hitting a couple of buttons when I get home is so minimal and the time to wait is to small, I would struggle to give a shit wasting my time doing that when I'm out.

If I were really lazy, I could just stream it via my phone anyway.

I use it for getting niche tv shows in better quality than available else where. I mean everything i get is probably available on some private tracker(s), but I'd rather just set up free usenet accounts instead of jumping through private tracker hoops.

This guy gets it; why be a ratiolet edgy invite only loser when you can get what you need for free even faster?

you do now, access used to be included from your internet provider

>you do now

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Pedophiles. That's where all the child porn is nowadays.

You seem well versed in this knowledge user.

i cant tell if this is bait but if not, you're not only a newfag here but a newfag at life

Explain usenet and why it's any better than just using torrents

Is it just a limewire thing where it's p2p and people are basically hosting big "ftp" servers to share shit? Is it just a VPN?
What is it
>paying to pirate

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