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How many of you use Usenet VS torrents (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by overload@sopuli.xyz to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Just wondering what a rough split is of people using either Usenet, torrents, or both?

I've only just discovered Usenet and while it is paid, it is very cheap and much more convenient than torrents.

Using torrents as well with the *arr suite set up for my various Linux ISOs.

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[–] viking@infosec.pub 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'm mostly downloading fairly recently released stuff, so there's no shortage of torrents on public trackers.

I also don't want any payment details associated with anything not explicitly legal, so that'd be a further deterrent from Usenet. Sure, I could use crypto, but even that links me to a wallet that might someday be traced back to me, so I'll pass.

[–] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Wait, you have to pay for using Usenet?

[–] Elieas@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

Yes just like paying for vpn and/or seedbox to safely torrent.

[–] jaykay@lemmy.zip 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Well since someone has to host the data, someone needs to pay for it :P

[–] GasMaskedLunatic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's funny you put it that way, because torrents are based fundamentally on the idea of freely hosting the data so nobody has to pay to access it.

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I have wondered this as well. Seems like it is pretty linked.

Tbf, Usenet and indexers are strictly speaking, legal.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Right, but whatever I'm doing on there really isn't.

As a matter of fact my current jurisdiction doesn't even pursue copyright infringements, but I still don't want to be linked to anything commonly seen as shady.

[–] Count042@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

This is incorrect. What you'd are doing while purely downloading is legal.

Bit torrent exposes you to liability not because you are downloading but because you're sharing which courts have decided is distributing/performing, no matter how small the block you upload.

This is not an issue with Usenet.