for every upload there must be a download.
for every download there must be an upload.
It must be symmetrical, meaning that you boasting, you being better than other people is only possible because others aren’t good enough.
Shame upon myself. 50tb this year DL, 0 UL. But hey, it’s usenet, so that’s perfectly fibe 😁
what about usenet makes that different? I’ve never used it
Besides it being around since forever and predecessing all forums and reddit etc.
It’s main selling points for pir8s are:
- max speed (depending on your uplink and your provider ofc. E.g. I get a solid 120mb/s)
- up to maaany years retention (how old the stuff you want could be. Depends on provider ofc. Currently 11yrs from the top of my head)
- no need to upload or be member of trackers to get the GOOD stuff. It’s all the same to everyone.
- it’s still not really mainstream (luckily) and hence less dmcas
Downsides compared to torrents?
- in theory torrents can be as old as torrent itself. In reality torrents die quickly.
- no social component like if you’re really engaged in some private tracker
- to have it efficiently you’d either one or more indexers (like search-engines). There are free ones but they suck. And/or forums. As much stuff is encrypted/obfuscated for obvious reasons.
Overall I’m a cheapskate and pay like 2€/month for unlimited usenet with maximum retention and 50 connection on the best backbone plus 2x 10-12€ a year for indexers. But one totally would be sufficient.
In the end, we enter a movie/series-name, pick the right one from the results, wait a bit for the download and sorting to happen, then watch it in emby comfortably. The comfortable kind of piracy i dreamt of for nearly 3 decades 😊
Which Usenet provider are you using, and which indexers?
Good stuff. So is Usenet like a message board? forum? Like technology wise it’s obviously not as simple as a file host or it’d be down by now
Yes, here’s my understanding:
it’s essentially a massive collection of forum posts – all text.
Files/binaries are encoded into text, and split into multiple posts if they exceed the max size for a single post. The names of posts and relationships between multiple posts can be obfuscated too.
Indexers provide .nzb files which are kinda like .torrent files, they indicate where in Usenet all the posts needed for a complete download are located.
You give an .nzb file to an nzb downloader, which finds the post(s), downloads, (merges,) decodes the final result into its original binary form, and does a hash check to make sure everything is correct.
There’s some open source software like Radarr, for example, which can automate the entire process start to finish (in Radarr’s case, for movies specifically)
With Radarr it goes like this: Add movie -> Radarr searches via indexer(s) for a .nzb matching the criteria -> .nzb gets sent to nzb downloader -> downloaded from usenet server(s) -> completed download is moved (and optionally renamed) by Radarr to desired location
Thank you! I’m trying to get there too!
the beauty of decentralization, aint shit corpos can do about it lol
get fucked, parasites. should have never fragmented streaming services into cable style bullshit.
Carrying our comrades with data caps.
Gamifying seeding? Sign me up!
Showoff
I actually didn’t post my highest ratio, I didn’t want to seem like a braggart
It’d be more interesting to see the “Real Uploaded” and “Real Downloaded” stats for this profile. The “Uploaded” stat can be padded by using bonus points, and the “Downloaded” stat does not include freeleech.
That is also why I didn’t post this proof originally. The real numbers for this one are less impressive.
Real Uploaded 1.162 TiB
Real Downloaded 744.29 GiB
Real share ratio 1.599
Thanks for posting your numbers! An >1.5 ratio is still great. For example I’m below 1 as I don’t really get any upload on most things. They just don’t seem to get snatched much.
Do you seed many audiobooks or mainly ebooks? I guess the former given your large amount of data downloaded.
A lot of audiobooks. When new free leech items drop, I think it’s every 2 weeks, I was just grabbing all of them. And then you get bonus points for seeding. It got to the point where I get Max bonus points (99,999) in about 24 hours and then just use that to buy upload credit.
The trick to getting a lot of upload is to be one of the first people to download and start seeding a torrent. You can also automate downloading with Autobrr, that way you download something as soon as it’s available, and then everyone who downloads after you is getting it from you
You’re not a braggart, you’re a goddamned hero 🫡
Nice. I just got above 2 for my ratio. I don’t have symmetric internet, but I have my torrents set up to never stop, and I don’t delete.
God I wish I had symmetrical upload. Gigabit down and like, 125mbps up.
Not to much for this but I self host stuff like my photos and I notice it’s slower when scrolling my photos outside the house. And using my personal VPN, makes my download limited to my upload speed.
I’ve got like half a gig down and 20 ish mbps up. I also limit it to less because family and stuff.
Spectrum? I’m moving from symmetric to this shit soon.
I had Spectrum at my previous apartment. 300 Mbps down, 10 up 😭 thank god there’s a local fiber ISP here
Mines about the same with Comcast. 1Gbps down but only around 20Mbps upload.
Arr!
Welcome aboard!
Arrr!
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I would absolutely be a seeder if my router didn’t reset itself in the middle of the night. That, and I’d be worried about getting caught by my ISP, even with my VPN.
Regardless, these people are the real heroes.
Add airflow to your router, common issue for overheating routers. May need to move it out into open, out of a closet or whatever.
If your ISP hasnt sent you a letter yet then try something much more tracked like GoT and if you dont get one after a week then you should be fine.
Pretty sure it’s programmed to reset at night from the ISP themselves, so not much luck there.
Also I have in the past for emails, but that was before I got my VPN subscription. Nothing since then, but I ain’t chancing it.
I never use router from ISP, I use my own. Most routers from ISP are awful.
I don’t have a choice as there is almost no way I could convince my parents that using a 3rd party router would be the way to go. Especially trying to convince my dad, who once got pissed off because I wanted the password for the old family computer to remove a browser extension that was probably malicious.
I’d set up a 3rd party router by snaking an Ethernet cable to my room, but I’m not confident enough to change and keep up on router settings to keep me safer. Let alone updating the router if I go the route of a 3rd party nos, which I’d probably try.
In the future if you are able to get your own router opensense is a great firmware for it. Also check out selfhosted you will learn alot from there.
I think you’ve got won, great work!
I’m lucky to be in a position to do that, a few years ago I would’ve dreamt of reaching what most shared here
All Linux iso’s, right?
There are at least 3 Linux isos in those 700 torrents.
FBI, open up!
Jk. Thank you for your service
Got served with strongly worded letters, forced me to use Wireshark on a private server, then ProtonVPN.
Kings, Queens, and in-betweens, we have found our new emperor. Blesséd be the giga-chad @twiked@sh.itjust.works
I’m blessed by cheap and fast french internet. Still need a VPN though.
I think I just busted a nut
Dang
just checked mine i didn’t think i was that high but i generally just leave it running all day
