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The strong bias seems to be toward Torrents instead of USENET? Why? Cost of providers with decent retention?

I always assume that Usenet (with anonymous payment and a separate VPN) is a safer option than torrenting since I'm not the one publishing / sharing content. A copyright holder would have to go after that Usenet host (with a general court order), extract logs from them (if they exist), figure out who was actually infringing on copyright, then go after the VPN provider, to deanonymize me.

Why pay someone else to run a service that you'd have been paying Netflix for.

That's how I feel about Usenet tbh. If you're going to pay, actually pay to support the shows you're watching. IMO.

Otherwise you build a server PC and set it up for the *arr suite, Radarr, Sonarr and the rest. It's the cost of your internet and your electricity after the upfront cost of your server.

Bonus: you have it when your internet is down, since they're downloaded to the hard drive.

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if you're in Australia ignore all VPN advice. Companies can only come after you for the cost of a single copy of whatever you pirate making it functionally legal here.

Torrents are your best bet for now because they are super easy.

Usenet is a paid service, absolutely worth it but you're paying for at least 2 different services to make it work and setting up a whole bunch of software. Just steer clear of the Arr suite until torrents fail you (and they will)

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Recognize that there may be some costs involved: hard drives, a raspberry pi, VPN/VPS/seedbox, even just electricity.

Get a good VPN and use it for any torrenting you do from home. Nord is not a good VPN. (unless your government doesn’t care or you use a seed box, then do whatever)

Use public torrent trackers if you have to but: If you have some private torrent tracker accounts from yore, try to get them re-activated. Surprisingly they may have your old info. This will probably require IRC. If not, look into interviewing with RED, OPS, or MAM to learn the ropes, then use them to get invited into movie/TV/general PTs.

If you don’t like the sound of torrenting look into newsgroups. This will cost money in two ways: a newsgroup account and a news indexer.

Check out the arr suite, especially radarr and sonarr, to automatically get what you are interested in.

Gravity was spot on that day

http://web.archive.org/web/20230601204534/https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/26xnx/help_vampires_a_spotters_guide/

tldr: You need to learn instead of sucking blood and/or being a bot