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Are most of you using Torrents or Usenet? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Knoxvomica@lemmy.ca to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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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[-] madnessman@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

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?

[-] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not sure about the most popular setup, but I use a docker container that has qbittorrent-nox and gluetun in it. It's connected to some other containers with arr apps and such.

And I think it's a bit different than just paying for VPN. You can use VPN for many other reasons. But here, you know exactly what you're paying for. I'd never pay to use any private tracker for the same reason.