Are torrents still the way?

[Ralph Wiggum]

lol.. i need to find something else.. my internet just kicked out a while ago when i was using bittorrent and streaming some porn. i found it very odd since this is the first time my internet has ever been down in 1.5 years of having it..

maybe verizon throttled my bandwidth because i was using torrents and also streaming videos?

[Derk4397]

BTW, is it illegal to be a member of iptorrents or newsgroups?

[NaXoL]

isohunt . com

yeah utorrent is solid bro, the best place imo is torrentz . com

funny how all these sites have the same unseeded slow/dead torrents eh?
use private trackers *******s.

[FuzzeWuzze]

funny how all these sites have the same unseeded slow/dead torrents eh?
use private trackers *******s.

Or step up with the big boys in Newsgroups and leave Torrenting to things its good at....
Like World of Warcraft patches.

[Derk4397]

Or step up with the big boys in Newsgroups and leave Torrenting to things its good at....
Like World of Warcraft patches.

Suggest a newsgroup. Is it legal?

[hyperpiper45]

Suggest a newsgroup. Is it legal?

Newsgroups are perfectly legal, although the content on them may not be.

I use http://lightningusenet.com/ as my provider. Cheap prices and pretty good retention.

[Derk4397]

Newsgroups are perfectly legal, although the content on them may not be.

I use http://lightningusenet.com/ as my provider. Cheap prices and pretty good retention.

That's in the UK and you are in Canada? Wat do?

I still don't see why newsgroups>torrents

[HedoRick]

That's in the UK and you are in Canada? Wat do?

I still don't see why newsgroups>torrents

Downloading at your Internets bandwith cap right off the start and not having to worry about seeders/leechers/ratio = a big thing. Once you try it, you wont go back.

[hyperpiper45]

That's in the UK and you are in Canada? Wat do?

I still don't see why newsgroups>torrents

The prices are in Euro's not £. It doesn't matter anyway you can use the service all over the world.

The main benefits of newsgroups is that you connect to a high speed server instantly and will download at the maximum speed of your internet connection. You also don't have to worry about seeding are anyone seeing what you are downloading.

Torrents can often be slow on public trackers, and most private trackers require you to seed to a 1:1 ratio which some people may feel inconvenient.

[FuzzeWuzze]

Suggest a newsgroup. Is it legal?

Astraweb is the way...either $11 month to month, or $96 for an entire year.
http://www.news.astraweb.com/specials/kleverig-11.html
http://www.news.astraweb.com/specials/96-yearly.html

Best service out there and ive tried them all. They have both US and EU servers.

Free SSL, unlimited, and over 1000 days retention.

News groups are legal, but as stated the content may not be. But because of the very nature of Newsgroups they are totally unregulated at this point with no real change coming anytime soon. Think of newsgroups as a tracker that is connected to every other tracker and stores locally on its servers everything thats ever been posted. You dont really see it via your download GUI, but each file your downloading(and your Newsgroup software is downloading and building) is actually made up of several hundred or thousand small files, usually only a few megs each. This is just another reason no agencies can go after it at this moment, the server isnt hosting illegal content. Its hosting messages with random 5Mb byte's of information, its only on your computer that all those 5mb files are reconstructed into an actual copyrighted file. In this respect its somewhat similar to torrents, except that in torrents the seeders actually does have the fully constructed file they are sharing, which is why they can go torrents.

A person on some newsgroup server in Russia uploads something, all the newsgroup servers around the world see it and have a copy of the data within minutes of it being posted.

Not that they ever could or would, but even if somehow the US or other government forced a provider to give up information it would do no good because everything is transmitted with 256Bit SSL, so they cant prove or see what your downloading. No need for stupid bull**** like Peer Guardian, which really only gives a false sense of security IMO its way too easy for the agencies to get the data they want if they really want it.

The main benefit is raw speed, no seeding, and all the other bull**** you have to deal with on torrents. It is raw leeching..the instant i hit connect or add something to my Queue im downloading at 2500k/sec(20Mb) which is my connection cap. Not only that but with Astraweb now up to over 1000 days retention, that means something some guy posted 3 years ago is still available exactly. The other benefit that most people really dont understand is crc checking and PAR files, because Torrents dont really use them. Think of them as files with the data required to build missing/corrupt files. Say you download a 5 gig movie on Torrents and 1 rar file is corrupt, your pretty much screwed and have to delete the entire movie or find the corrupt file somewhere else somehow. On newsgroups almost all are uploaded with extra PAR files which can rebuild corrupt files(up to a certain extent).

Try Astraweb for a month, setup Sabnzbd with your provided astraweb server info...download some NZB files off Nzbmatrix or Nzbsrus. I will just say it, once you use Newsgroups you will ask why you wasted your time using anything else, 100% srs. If for some reason you dont think its worth it(if you dont download much, or have a really slow ISP like DSL or something it may not be as worth it), your only out $11 bucks...

inb4 the misc 10k/day ceo's come in complaining they cant afford 8 dollars a month for a far superior service lololol

[Vegetto991]

i am a member of many a torrentsite, torrentleech, bitgamer, blackcat games, and countless others, i still say torrentleech is better then iptorrent, but others may disagree

[Derk4397]

i am a member of many a torrentsite, torrentleech, bitgamer, blackcat games, and countless others, i still say torrentleech is better then iptorrent, but others may disagree

Why is that?

[Vegetto991]

Why is that?

well the community is bigger, they have more torrents, and they dont kick for not downloading for a week or two

[Nutcase]

I always find everything I need with trusty ole ThePirateBay.org

^This.

Then btjunkie

Then Kickasstorrents

[Vegetto991]

^This.

Then btjunkie

Then Kickasstorrents

i do like kickass, not so much a fan of btjunkie mainly because I dont like having to get all the **** homemade porn in with my search for whatever

[bobofango]

I think I would only touch torrents while using a VPN... but if I am going to be paying monthly just to download stuff.. I'd rather get a newsgroup account or rapidshare pro.

[Vegetto991]

I think I would only touch torrents while using a VPN... but if I am going to be paying monthly just to download stuff.. I'd rather get a newsgroup account or rapidshare pro.

I dont get why people are still so scared about getting caught with torrents, just dont be the one uploading the file, use private torrent sites, and right now, porn seems to be who is getting hit.

Also do some research on the isps who are likely to flag you for downloading, ex. comcast, me I have roadrunner bright house, and bright house doesnt give a **** so im sure ill be fine

[demadio]

if you don't feel like playing for a file sharing account to efficiently use multilinks then it's still the way. Even though it's pretty cheap, and super fast.

And it's much more simple to get into than finding and building up a list of different forums, blogs, etc that posts multi links uploads.

[Misc_Canuck]

If u want to get a free usenet account and want to set it up, pm me its easy but i don't think everyone should share it on an open forum like this

[calmlikewind]

If u want to get a free usenet account and want to set it up, pm me its easy but i don't think everyone should share it on an open forum like this

aware me brah, what is usenet? bit noob here

[Budjola]

for movies/games/series torrents (private trackers not public ones) are only way to go for me, for music i use warez or bb.com music section on misc.

[KeepOnShruggin]

Downloading at your Internets bandwith cap right off the start and not having to worry about seeders/leechers/ratio = a big thing. Once you try it, you wont go back.

The prices are in Euro's not £. It doesn't matter anyway you can use the service all over the world.

The main benefits of newsgroups is that you connect to a high speed server instantly and will download at the maximum speed of your internet connection. You also don't have to worry about seeding are anyone seeing what you are downloading.

Torrents can often be slow on public trackers, and most private trackers require you to seed to a 1:1 ratio which some people may feel inconvenient.

Is it similar to downloading via megaupload, mediafire, rapidshare, etc? Unless you're downloading something in several parts, it would be a pain I guess... but when downloading a single album for example. Wouldn't the sites I listed be better since they're already free, and fast enough for an <100MB file

[hyperpiper45]

Is it similar to downloading via megaupload, mediafire, rapidshare, etc? Unless you're downloading something in several parts, it would be a pain I guess... but when downloading a single album for example. Wouldn't the sites I listed be better since they're already free, and fast enough for an <100MB file

If you are just downloading small files (<100mb) like music, megaupload etc are fine. I don't really use those sites but I know that for large files the multiple links are annoying. I also don't know many good sites that index all the links.

Usenet really shines when you download large files like hd movies which are 4gb+ as you get full speed for the duration of the download.

Usenet also has really well organised website that categorise everything that is uploaded on them, which makes searching for things very easy.

[HotBiscuits]

newsgroups > torrents for safety reasons. If youre just ddling music and **** from a newsgroup the probably of getting stung is so marginally small its ignorable. But then again torrents really arent that risky if you download responsibly and avoid hot_XXXamandanude_gapingangus.avi.mp3.exe, newsgroups have ****loads of those :P

[Daverz]

I too used to use torrents ever now and then, until i came upon a post a month ago about torrents vs newsgroups.

Fuzzewuzze made a post about astraweb 11 special and nzbsrus - great advice, listen to him.

So i went ahead with my purchase, and I also use merlins-portal.net.

I'm still a little lost and confused, but...................

brb 60gigs in 2days
brb 1.3mb download, steady and constant

I just need to slow down now and be a bit more picky lol.

[FuzzeWuzze]

I too used to use torrents ever now and then, until i came upon a post a month ago about torrents vs newsgroups.

Fuzzewuzze made a post about astraweb 11 special and nzbsrus - great advice, listen to him.

So i went ahead with my purchase, and I also use merlins-portal.net.

I'm still a little lost and confused, but...................

brb 60gigs in 2days
brb 1.3mb download, steady and constant

I just need to slow down now and be a bit more picky lol.

This is my problem, there is so much posted on Newsgroups and its all so well indexed that you can easily go into overboard mode...but be warey and ensure you understand your ISP's downloading limits. I know some ISP's in Canada have 100Gig or something Download caps, comcast is 250 Gigs i believe. After that your "unlimited" internet starts charging you per Gb...so it can get expensive.

If anybody has any questions feel free to take it to PM.

There are a few more sites you may want to look at for Indexing

Newzbin, its pay per week but you pay in like 8 week chunks and i think its only 4 Euro?
Nzbmatrix, better solution its only i think 10 USD for a lifetime membership and is just as good as Newzbin now(long story as to why).
Binsearch.info, if i cant find something on an index site i check this site. Its very bare bones and just gives you giant text lists of what it finds, but its a raw search of the newsgroup itself so it finds obscure things that people didnt bother indexing.

[-TC-]

has demonoid not been updating upload stats for anyone else?

[FuzzeWuzze]

If you are just downloading small files (<100mb) like music, megaupload etc are fine. I don't really use those sites but I know that for large files the multiple links are annoying. I also don't know many good sites that index all the links.

Usenet really shines when you download large files like hd movies which are 4gb+ as you get full speed for the duration of the download.

Usenet also has really well organised website that categorise everything that is uploaded on them, which makes searching for things very easy.

And if your Savvy enough(not that difficult really), there are many automated tools to automatically download things for you...brb no more paying for Cable TV.

For those using Sabnzbd look into
Sickbeard - TV Show PVR Via Newsgroups
CouchPotato - Movie queue via Newsgroups

[Daverz]

Yeah found out rogers is only 60gb a month and i hit 100% in 2 days.

BUT I can't believe how fast it is.

The hardest thing for me to figure out was that astraweb wasn't a reader, so I had to figure out which reader to use, then nzbsrus did the rest as far as downloading from astraweb goes.

Do not regret a thing.

[hyperpiper45]

one of my favourite free indexing sites is nzbs.org. you should check it out, although it may be full at the moment.