I found about Usenet and the sort of “hype” relative to it and I wonder some stuff.

Maybe I’m a bit old school but is this process not against the spirit of piracy,

  • be generous to share
  • fight against censorship and DCMA takedown
  • work in a decentralized way

Just wondered it, if someone wants to give his opinion

  • krolden@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    You need to find a newsgroup provider with alt.binaries access and good retention.

    Then you have to find a good indexer. Think of it like a torrent tracker but for Usenet nzbs

    Then you need a snatcher like sabnzbd or something else.

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      4 days ago

      But what’s your opinion about it, because don’t you think it’s opposed from the original torrenting piracy spirit?

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        3 days ago

        As someone who used to download C64 games in the 1980s, from a BBS, trust me. Pirating existed decades before BitTorrent.

        Decades.

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          Maybe I’m a bit old school but is this process not against the spirit of piracy,

          be generous to share
          fight against censorship and DCMA takedown
          work in a decentralized way