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[-] Elon_Musk@hexbear.net 62 points 1 year ago

era of torrenting unaffected

[-] Album@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

Is that true? Most of the best public trackers got shut down. Anything left has bots recording your IP and you're getting a letter from your ISP.

If you're not on a private ratio tracker or paid tracker it's basically a non starter. So I'm not sure about unaffected era the last 10 years have been brutal for pirates via torrent.

[-] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 14 points 1 year ago

If you’re torrenting without a VPN you’re doing it wrong. Also you should look at Usenet instead.

[-] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

What's the situation with usenet these days ? I preferred nzbs over torrents for several years but it just became impossible at around the time nzbmatrix chucked it in.

[-] Whirlybird@aussie.zone 10 points 1 year ago

Better than ever! Seriously.

Indexers like NZBGeek, Drunkenslug, and NZBFinder have resulted in me getting almost anything I want, short of some obscure Australia series from the 80s. Providers are doing 2000+ days retention and I’m only using 1 myself, never even needed to get a backup on a different backbone.

[-] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

Well that's good to hear. Tormenting sucks in Australia.

[-] seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago
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