So, i want to give a try to usenet world.

I have the *Arr setup with torrents now, and works great, but why not experiment a bit further?

So many questions…

First of all: will i find italian contents? Or its all US/English stuff?

I got an account on NZBFind, bit thats only an indexer right? I need also to find an access provider to usenet? If so, which access provider do you recomend? I want somewhere i can test for a few weeks or a month or so before committing, so no credit card upfront.

Update: trough techradar got an offer on newshosting for 5.99/mo with 3 monts free. Paid with PayPal then cancelled the recurrent immediately (so paid 0 so far). But at the moment not yet sure i made it working in my *Arr setup properly.

  • nomadic@lemmy.oneEnglish
    41·
    1 year ago

    I use Astraweb because I can buy 1000GB at a time that doesn’t expire so I avoid the monthly fees. Works well for me as I don’t do a high volume and it removes any feeling of pressure to use it more than I need.

    • BrownianMotion@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Astraweb is the absolute worst to be recommending. DMCA’s are instant. Connections are 50 (this isn’t bad, but there are many others that offer 60 or more).

          • thisusernameistaken@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            but they are literally the same servers operated the exact same way. a take down happens on newshosting will be reflected at the same exact time on all resellers, astraweb included. astraweb moved over to nh / omicron a few years back where prior they were their own system and i remember when the dmca thing was a big thing for them but that was like a decade+ ago. newshosting or any reseller are all connecting to the same servers, look at the IPs and how close they are, follow the traces to the same location.

      • nomadic@lemmy.oneEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Well for someone like myself that is low volume Astraweb is great because they offer the option of buying GBs instead of monthly fees.

        • BrownianMotion@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          That’s fair. I did use them for a while, but in my case (which was very heavy duty), I saw takedowns way faster than others. Not saying they are bad, but they are “super compliant” to complaints.

      • teichflamme@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Dumb question: how can you get DMCA’d?

        I thought it’s all encrypted and servers are no log?

        • BrownianMotion@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          So your connection can be (using port 587 for example) is encrypted. That is not the problem.

          The problem is unencrypted or open filenames. Its the content that is DMCA’d on usenet, not the end user.

          If you post up to usenet a file (being really simplistic since most people dont post) called “Deadpool3-h264.mkv” it will be taken down pretty quick on some services.

          The problem is only with the users like you, who wanted to get it. The solution to this is threefold, get yourself onto a private scraper (one that only does occasional free signups) or be really fast on content grabbing, thirdly a site that has good de-obfuscating scraping ability. (there are a few out there that are open. pm if you are interested).

          • teichflamme@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Ah, okay, thank you.

            So the problem isn’t for the downloading party but for content availability on the server.