Hello,

I tried in the past to wrap my head around usenet, and I bought access to some news downloader (iirc it was called that way not sure, but it was Eweka) and tried using it, the problem was that every download I tried to get was dead on arrival (link being dead, failing to verify file integrity) yet so many people on piracy forums swear by Usenet and claim that for ~$60 a year they get a much more superior experience than torrents, and yet, I currently torrent everything with no issues at all.

The reason for trying Usenet that when attempting to search some less popular TV shows/movies, I could not always find it in the quality I wanted to see, and therefore decided to give it a try.

Any suggestions?

  • CriticalMiss@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    At the time I used NZBGeek, but as mentioned previously unless the content was really new, it didn’t work as good as I wanted it to.

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      1 year ago

      I found that Geek paired with DrunkenSlug served me very well for new and old content.

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        1 year ago

        I heard of Drunken in the past but I couldn’t get an invite and always missed the registrations dates, so I just stuck with Geek.