Are most of you using Torrents or Usenet?

Torrents.... Fast, free, and easy

What's the problem with torrent?

Torrents. I don't really find Usenet worth the money. I can get most of the stuff I want on public sites. Some others I can get on private trackers. Never really felt the need to use Usenet. And as others have pointed out, the arr apps work great with torrents.

And honestly, I find it a little scummy to pay for content to people who don't own them. I don't think piracy in itself is unethical, but I if you take money for stolen content, that's not cool in my book.

I use torrents almost exclusively because of the price (free) and convenience. That is, I can get them easily where I live for no additional cost beyond my low speed internet. I have no extra money at all, at this time in my life, unfortunately.

Honestly had no idea usenet was still a thing. I’m old. Old enough to know usenet and have used it back in the day. But young enough to switch torrenting and not ever really learn another way

Now I have to look up some info!

I enjoy torrents, searching and deciding which is the best quality + storage combo is right for me is the fun part

Are most piracy users aware of programs like sonarr or radarr?

Sounds like you yourself aren't aware of their capabilities, if you're presenting a false dichotomy of torrents or arrs

Torrent

I use the Starr apps with torrents. I kinda just forget all about it since it all just works.

Torrents. Because it's free and fast (if what I'm pirating is famous enough). I started using sites like 1337x, nyaa,rabg🪦 etc.. with qbittorent a few years ago and never had any reason to change.

Torrents for everything, i've found it to be one of the safest ways as well, thanks to all of the other ship mates who seed with me.

I've yet to try Usenet. I use Qbitorrent. I've heard of sonarr and radarr, but I haven't used them.

Are most piracy users aware of programs like sonarr or radarr?

Of course we are, hell that's what I use with my torrents. They aren't just for usenet lol

Torrents work great for my needs and I prefer them. Haven't really messed with usenet much.

I use torrents and usenet. I have sonarr and radarr configured to fetch from both.

I like using both because they each have different strengths. Usenet tends to be faster, but torrents tend to have longer retention and a wider variety of content.

Torrents are free. I use both, but it's always a choice whether or not to renew Usenet.

Torrents+Real Debrid and IPTV have taken care of all my media streaming needs.

I do have Sonarr/Radarr setup, but streaming via debrid works so well I haven't needed to use them much.

I still use torrents sometimes but almost exclusively use Usenet these days. For Plex/jellyfin servers it’s pretty unbeatable.

Torrents are mostly stuff like audiobooks from audiobookbay and myanonymouse and games from repackers like Fitgirl.

I mean usenet costs money and torrents don’t.

Sonarr and radarr can use torrents just as much as they can use usenet. I used them for both, now I dropped usenet altogether.

I find it easier to either DDL or torrent, plus a lot of the stuff I'm after recently proved hard tto find on usenet for whatever reason.

It's more hassle to search usenet for my usecase and while it's true that maxing out download speeds is awesome, I'm not in a hurry. I let the .arr apps do the work while I'm busy with life and when I get back home I have it all ready anyways.

Neither. DDL only

I just switched to Usenet after using torrents for the past couple of years. The difference is night and day

Been using Usenet for 28 years, I use torrents if I can't find it on Usenet

Usenet. Been using it consistently for over 10 years now. I only torrent when I can't find something on usenet. So not too often. Plus Usenet just maxes out my download speed on everything. It's so freaking fast compared to torrents. I gladly pay for that.

Torrenting with a seedbox for me. I'm aware of Sonarr/Radarr and other automation tools but I don't feel like I have the need for them. Some part of me enjoys the manual search and management. Never touched Usenet though it's in the mental "maybe try later" bin.

I've never used Usenet... I'm really not familiar with it, tbh. I just DDL or stream everything lol.

I only ever used Usenet back in the day when my college threatened to shut off my internet if there was any more p2p traffic.

about 90% Usenet for me.

Couldn't ever find people to get invites from for private torrents and didn't want to mooch in forums where no one knew me so Usenet it is.

I use both private trackers and usenet added to Prowlarr along with Sonarr and Radarr. Usenet has priority, reverts to torrents when it can't find something or if I need some specific release

I used to use usenet religously, but it became fairly unreliable after a crackdown on NZBMatrix and I haven't really tried it in years. Is it fairly decent again? Lately I use Syncler for streaming through Real Debrid, and pass torrents through that service also.

I use sonarr, radarr (3x), prowlarr and overseer. I get most of what I need from usenet. I have most public teachers too as backup. I want to get stuff in their original language, so it's fine.

But lately I'm looking for multi language (English+French) stuff and I'm having a hard time finding that. On usenet there's nothing and torrents, there are too few french trackers.

I use both. Rarr Stack and Sabnzbd and alldbird and a program that emulates qtorent.

Have found that some content is just easier to find on one platform or the other.

Torrent. Started using torrents in the 2000's. Stopped for a while, but now I'm back to torrenting. Searching for and curating my collection is part of the fun for me.

I use sonarr, radarr, overseer, prowlarr, and a bunch of other shit.

I exclusively use torrents. Everything is automated and in dockers. No reason to use Usenet IMO. It gets me nothing torrents don’t already do.

torrents automated with all the Arrs

Neither. Real Debrid

Well to be fair it depends on personal preference rather than a technology being better than other. I used to torrent everything but nowadays I just subscribed to RD and with Stremio or Kodi + Trakt I got everything I need without having to worry for searching.

I rely on usenet for 90+% of content acquisition, but I have torrents for stuff I can't easily find or older content that is not recent release.

Torrents and muthafuckin' DC++!!!

Its funny that you say "still using torrents" while the usenet is basically older than torrents

Torrent and ed2k/kad networks

Torrents, I like the community and indefinite retention. And with 1gbps home connections becoming more common staying in ratio has become way easier.

I'm using torrents much less since fmovies. I just stream my shows and movies now. Music is also getting harder to find so I went back to Soulseek. For everything else, I'm using Tribler, an open source torrent client using onion routing.

I see multiple private torrent tracker users in here. I primarily use Usenet, but is anyone willing to shed some light on the private torrent scene? Wouldn't mind having a backup for anything that fails on Usenet but don't have a clue where to even start research on good/reputable private trackers.

Usenet ftw - i can never go back to torrenting

Been on torrent for many years, recently started using the arr stack, it's fantastic. For torrents I source them from a private tracker, difference of quality and speed is night and day.

I've only heard good things about Usenet but personally, I can find almost anything I want via DDL so that's where it's at for me

I just got Sonarr and Radarr setup with Overseerr and Jackett and got my family on Plex so we can cut the cord on Netflix. Overseerr supports downloading from Plex watchlists so they don’t even need to use Overseerr to auto download movies. I still need to figure out how to sort and download better ones since I’ve selected “seeders” as the download is sometimes prioritizing quality.

I’m in a private invite only torrent site, and most shows/movies have an amazing availability. Seeding is a requirement and becusee its private, my ISP doesn’t send me DMCA notices.

Both configged on the *arrs.

I’ve been on the torrents for ages but just started with Usenet this weekend. So I’m dual wielding with Usenet as first priority.

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