Are there ways to use usenet without a payment/subscription?

  • RandomLegend@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    No, and that’s a good thing.

    How should they make money? Services and Storage cost money. Period. That has to be paid by someone. Either be it the users, or some sketchy not-giving-a-shit-about-privacy-advertising company because hosters on the usenet have to sell your data to pay for the servers.

    Easy as that.

    And since usenet is used for a lot of piracy, i 100% DON’T want it to be financed by shit like this. I pay for it and i know i am safe.
    Don’t forget. If a product is free - you are the product.

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      1 year ago

      exactly this. I’m sure some of the larger hosts easily spend six figures per month just on the server infrastructure alone

      Usenet is super fast, safe, reliable, automated searching and downloading actually works. I gladly support my host

      • RandomLegend@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        100% - i get 40MB/s on Usenet, something i could only dream about on torrents…also i am in germany, torrenting is quite risky here.

        When i find something on usenet, it is there…period. I can get it. On torrents? Just because i found a magnet doesn’t mean there is anyone seeding it.

        • rdb@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          1 year ago

          No problem hitting 110MB/s on decent German private trackers. Also everything worthy to keep (like highest resolution release available in case of series and movies) has been seeded, even when it’s been uploaded 10 years ago.

          Which trackers did you try? ‘Just because i found a magnet’ sounds like you’ve been on public trackers?

          But I’m with you, Usenet is overall less of a hassle.