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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Without seeds, torrents become almost useless, and many pirate sites offer rare and hard-to-find movies/animes whose torrent versions never download because their seeds are practically extinct forever. So I don't think this is a weak complaint. If torrents didn't have this weakness I would always choose to use them but...

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The usenet has many treasures

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Usenet is awesome, but the fact that you have to pay for Usenet access defeats the main purpose of pirating for a lot of people.

Don't get me wrong, it is super cheap(60$-100$/year?) and worth it to pay for Usenet from what I understand, but as a poor kid that discovered torrenting out of necessity, paying for Usenet back then would've been out of the question. I imagine a lot of Gen Z kids feel the same about it at this point in their lives.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I scored a year of unlimited Usenet for 32 bucks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Sure, but as treasure hunters, it is a necessity, if you are not using private tracker for finding torrents

And, you don’t kill torrents if you use the usenet instead of leaching (e.g. because seeding is illegal in your country but leaching is allowed)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Especially if you buy access via 2 providers on different backbones. Haven't had a single failed/incomplete download since.