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what are the benefits of the usenet compared to torrenting? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

100%, as well as DMCA take down requests, and needing to often pay for indexer and provider.

That being said I still think it's far superior to torrents, though I do maintain a good ratio on a large private tracker for those odds and ends I can't get on Usenet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I dont have the willpower to maintain good ratios. I'm an unapologetic leecher.

A lot of that has to do with my setup though. I only have a very small SSD to use for downloads, then the files get moved to spinning disks for storage. I tried to seed from HDD but it trashed my system.