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silverbullet132 said:
Not if you have multiple good index sites, and a membership with unlimited usage. I found nearly everything goes on there before it hits the torrents. Speeds on there are usually as fast as your connection can handle, too.
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You don't even need unlimited unless you're getting those ridiculous 10GB "Linux distros".. If you're getting them in the 1.5GB range, a metered account might be the ticket. Astraweb has 180GB for $25 or 1000GB for $50.

Torrents are still good for older, international and otherwise hard to find content.
 
I still use pirates bay. As long as what your looking for is fairly current. I download episodes of breaking bad in 720p minutes after the episode has aired. Good seeds too. I usually average 1.5 to 2.5 megabytes a second. NO NOT MEGABITS. (everyone seems to think I get the two confused)

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Demonoid finally went down huh? It was a decent semi-private tracker which indexed some obscure content I had trouble finding elsewhere. Get into one or two private torrent sites and you won't even miss it.

Newsgroups are an option as others have said but the catch is that you have to pay monthly for an account. Torrents aren't exactly "free" either... while you don't have to pay, you have to maintain respectable stats which generally means you have to seed after DL'ing (not hard). So it comes down to money vs effort.

To address what someone said earlier about pre-times (time it takes for newly released content to show up on-site), torrents are just as quick to release as newsgroups these days for all intents and purposes. And there's no retention policy so content isn't removed unless there are zero peers on that file.

Btw, if you don't want to bother with private sites then try kickasstorrents. It's a public tracker but I'd virus check anything downloaded from there. Also check out filenetworks blog for news on open registrations.
 
You don't have to pay monthly for Usenet. You can also get good metered plans at barely over wholesale rates $50/1000GB.
 
from what I read they were being DoS attacked from the USA gov. Now the owers are arrested and being brought to the USA to be charged.
 
FiReSTaRT said:
You don't have to pay monthly for Usenet. You can also get good metered plans at barely over wholesale rates $50/1000GB.
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I know there are free ones out there but I thought they were garbage? Things may have changed since last I looked into them (which was a long time ago to be sure).

N3WMAN said:
icefilms LOL!
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I actually loved icefilms before megaupload got shutdown. It used to be great for streaming tv shows but it's not a replacement for torrents/usenet.
 
AF4iK said:
I know there are free ones out there but I thought they were garbage? Things may have changed since last I looked into them (which was a long time ago to be sure).



I actually loved icefilms before megaupload got shutdown. It used to be great for streaming tv shows but it's not a replacement for torrents/usenet.
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I've never heard of a good free Usenet provider. Metered means, you buy a block of data instead of paying a set monthly fee for unlimited. I use thecubenet for mine, works out to about $3-4 a month for my download needs.

Icefilms was incredible with megaupload, now, not so much.
 
FiReSTaRT said:
You don't even need unlimited unless you're getting those ridiculous 10GB "Linux distros".. If you're getting them in the 1.5GB range, a metered account might be the ticket. Astraweb has 180GB for $25 or 1000GB for $50.

Torrents are still good for older, international and otherwise hard to find content.
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I had unlimited astraweb, and can still get it ($11/mo). I used over 500gb in the first month I had it.
 
Demonoid will be back, but it is just a semi-private tracker anyway. Get yourself on some private tracker.

For those on usenet, if I am too cheap to pay for movies or music, how will I not be too cheap for usenet?

I am a member of numerous private torrent trackers, and everything I want is available seconds after it airs and/or before it comes out on dvd (I don't watch cam crap).
 
silverbullet132 said:
I had unlimited astraweb, and can still get it ($11/mo). I used over 500gb in the first month I had it.
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I just don't have the time to to through 500GB of content in a month lol Been using 180GB for about 6 months now and still got plenty left.
 
Diesel said:
For those on usenet, if I am too cheap to pay for movies or music, how will I not be too cheap for usenet?
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It's not always about being cheap. It's easier to download than to back up an already bought movie. Also, some just don't wanna deal with all the strings attached to the official releases. Then there's the money savings over getting premium TV channels bundled with 500 channels that you don't want.
 
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