Are most of you using Torrents or Usenet?

I'm a bit surprised to see so many torrent posts. Are most people still using Torrents? Are most piracy users aware of programs like sonarr or radarr?

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Torrents. I don't really find Usenet worth the money. I can get most of the stuff I want on public sites. Some others I can get on private trackers. Never really felt the need to use Usenet. And as others have pointed out, the arr apps work great with torrents.

And honestly, I find it a little scummy to pay for content to people who don't own them. I don't think piracy in itself is unethical, but I if you take money for stolen content, that's not cool in my book.

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- I get what you are saying about paying someone who doesn‘t own the content.
  
  However I‘d argue that you are not paying them for the content, but just for hosting it on their servers. So its more like a tool, as is your VPN if you are torrenting. And most people wouldn‘t mind paying a VPN just to pirate content.
  
  Usenet, I agree, might take you some time to get invites to the good indexers, especially if you don‘t want to pay immediately, but in the long run it‘s definitly worth it.
  
  I havn‘t played arround with torrents for quite some time, whats the most popular setup for torrents atm?
  
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Torrents.... Fast, free, and easy

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- What is fast for you? On usenet it maxes out my internet speeds. Can't get any faster than that. And I pay like 5 bucks a month for usenet. Fully automated, max speeds. It's worth it.
  
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  Torrents can also max out your speed if there are enough seeds, unless you live in a country where your ISPs are allowed to throttle specific types of traffic or something. Or I suppose if you have 10 gbit downlink then you prolly won't max it off a torrent.
  
  Idk what you mean by fully automated. If you mean sonarr, radarr and the like, they work for torrents too.
  
  I might very well try usenet when I get fiber in my current location (haven't had it in over a year, it sucks, don't recommend) and a server for the arr suite, but in general I like my piracy being free lol
  
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I just switched to Usenet after using torrents for the past couple of years. The difference is night and day

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Honestly had no idea usenet was still a thing. I’m old. Old enough to know usenet and have used it back in the day. But young enough to switch torrenting and not ever really learn another way

Now I have to look up some info!

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I'm not. What are sonarr and radarr and why do you recommend them?

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- Not OP but: they are apps to schedule automatic downloads. Like Star Trek Strange New Worlds but don't wanna go every week and download it manually? Set it up in Sonarr and when you wake up the new episodes are waiting for you. Radarr is the same for film, prowlarr for aggregating torrent trackers all in 1 spot, bazarr for subtitles, and there's a few others. Can also be set up with usenet in addition to torrents.
  
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  is prowlarr better than jackett? Is it wise to invest some time to migrate?
  
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- Sonarr and radarr manage downloads for TV and movies in a nice way for Usenet and actually torrents as well. You can set up quality profiles and choose which shows and movies you want to download and they will grab torrents/nzbs that meet your preferences, automatically start them in your torrent app or Usenet downloader, and then organize them in folders with appropriate metadata for Kodi/Plex when the downloads complete. They automate the process very nicely.
  
  Edit, I'm a Usenet guy if that wasn't already clear lol
  
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  How is Usenet for privacy compared to torrents, e.g. if a usenet service you are paying for is compromised at some stage are they likely to be able to identify you based on payment data for example?
  
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I see multiple private torrent tracker users in here. I primarily use Usenet, but is anyone willing to shed some light on the private torrent scene? Wouldn't mind having a backup for anything that fails on Usenet but don't have a clue where to even start research on good/reputable private trackers.

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Still using torrents. They just work!

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torrents automated with all the Arrs

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- I know Sonarr and Radarr, what else is there?
  
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  Here you go.
  
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I use torrents almost exclusively because of the price (free) and convenience. That is, I can get them easily where I live for no additional cost beyond my low speed internet. I have no extra money at all, at this time in my life, unfortunately.

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- Probably a dumb noob question, but shouldn't one use a VPN for privacy when torrenting? Wouldn't that add additional cost?
  
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  You can also torrent on i2p for added slowness and privacy. Usually fast enough.
  
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I've yet to try Usenet. I use Qbitorrent. I've heard of sonarr and radarr, but I haven't used them.

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- I just cannot figure those pieces of software out. Gotta try again next month.
  
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  I think the best way is to use dockers. Hit me up if you need any help.
  
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Torrents and muthafuckin' DC++!!!

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- Jesus, dc++ is still around???
  
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- Excuse my ignorance, what’s DC++?
  
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