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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Usenet subscriptions are an even better deal.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Paying for better quality and reliable access. Enjoy your torrents, when you grow up and care about bitrate, compression, audio quality, and ease of access come on back and I’ll be happy to walk you through it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Don't be a gatekeeping dick. I was there to use limewire and had only learned of Usenet 4 months ago and the benefits are non obvious by design.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

> offers to help someone learn

> gets called gatekeeping dick

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Tons of tutorials out there but think of it as two pieces 1 is a bunch of servers that hold Stuff 1 is an index that tells you what that stuff is

If you're willing to pay $5-15/mo for ease of use, it's a reliable way to get data of all kinds. Some is even legal.

Tldr: It's the client-server version of torrent's peertopeer

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Okay thanks for the explanation. Although I wouldn’t want to download without supporting artists.