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  • I only used usenet in the past to talk about programming and I’m not knowledgable about it. I guess it never really died but it was hidden because it’s difficult to use: you need to pay for both an indexer AND binaries, it’s weird. I’m still not sure it’s popular. Its usage may increase in some circles due to having some tutorials and applications like Sonarr, but I could be wrong.


  • glad_cat@lemmy.sdf.orgtoPiracy@lemmy.mlHow do Germans pirate?
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    1 year ago

    a law company can basically send a legal letter asking your ISP

    It’s the same in France, and I guess also all over Europe. Those companies mostly look at who is seeding torrents, and that’s why you can safely use direct-downloads like Uptobox (DD) or Usenet.

    VPNs can fail and not all VPNs allow you to torrent

    You’re pretty safe if you use the application given by the VPN, and most don’t care about torrents. Also e.g. Mullvad has a page to make sure that you are not leaking info (https://mullvad.net/en/check) and other VPNs should have this too.

    You can stream movies

    The article is wrong here: you either download or you torrent. “Streaming” is not a technical concept. You mostly get caught when you seed.