OK, Talk me out of BT(pros & cons)

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kNotCrazy

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My friend tried getting me into newsgroups about a year ago, and introduced me to Grabit. I fiddled around with it for a bit and was disinterested. I then found out how easy it was using torrents, and haven't looked back.

With some of the bigger names going down in the torrent scene though, I have been considering going back to newsgroups.

Before making the jump, I was wondering if anyone can name the pros and cons of using each.
 
my suppose is because the children dont have credit cards and use torrents and usenet is more complicated for the kids.
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Although usenet has got easier some people are just too daft to understand it. I have tried spent hours online trying to get folks to use it. Either I am not a good teacher or they are pretty thick but so far my success rate has been zero. Ah well more server speed for me.
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i 2nd them
it took me also some time to start using NG, the complicity of NG always made me postponed, and there is very little simple guides on using it, most go into the way NG works and guide very little or lose you into the NG complicity.
but tbh its not so complicated, atleast for todays with indexers indexing releases a huge part of Newsgroup's complicity is excluded(listing groups, finding groups, subscribing groups, downloading headers, listing releases, insuring releases and few more).
 
BawA said:
WW i never get your sig, what do you mean by "JESUS USED TORRENTS AND LOOKED WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM, USE NEWSGROUPS".
grammar wise it doesn't make sense
just curious nothing more :lol:
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It's no secret that Jesus had a music addiction. He fueled this addiction by downloading via torrents. The Romans(RIAA) crucified him for this. :lol:
 
I really dont know much about usenet. Aren't newsgroups usually only w/ cable providers? i have dsl
I do want to try them out though
 
Broken said:
Flame bait! lol

What's so elite about any tracker?
Proud of all the butt kissing you did to get there?
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I too used to think that I was king shit with all these hot trackers under my belt. I woke up one day and realized that it doesn't do me a damn bit of good. Wasting electricity to keep the PC on 24/7, fear in lack of animosity and most importantly, it wasn't getting me any pussy. Not that Newsgroups get me any pussy, but at least I feel more safe using it. :)

The only thing I use torrents for these days are the very rare music files and unique items that just cannot be found on Newsgroups.
 
Usenet:
100% worry free downloading at 100% of your connection speed with a 100% chance of finishing every download you make with a 0% chance of ever being shut down.

BT:
It's free.... ummm.
You get to kiss a lot of ass trying to get into the hottest trackers before they get shut down. LOL
Wait... that's not a pro.

Ummm... that's all I got for BT.
 
lol
I like that...
I like that a lot.

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AmpeD said:
I really dont know much about usenet. Aren't newsgroups usually only w/ cable providers? i have dsl
I do want to try them out though
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A good number of ISP's regardless of DSL or cable provide Usenet (newsgroups) for free.
I'd call and ask your ISP if they provide Usenet (newsgroups) access.

Even if they do, it's probably gonna be on the lower side of the spectrum.

Many pay Usenet providers have free trials, and this site has a good NZB index that is free also.
 
Usenet: Most provider only record download amount , they don't record what content you download. No feds will ever show up because you used newsgroups.

BT: It'll never be as safe as usenet... I guess thats a con too :/
 
WHiCKWiRE said:
It's no secret that Jesus had a music addiction. He fueled this addiction by downloading via torrents. The Romans(RIAA) crucified him for this. :lol:
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My personal reason was that it required a credit card, which was hard to do when I was 14 lol. I had to use my ISP's newsgroups who's retention was crap (
 
broken if i have a free acess to newsgroups from isp i can downloads the files here

thanks

i need to check the newsgroups think

i hope i found many more files than BT or else what?
 
I think the best thing about BT is the amount of files available to download. A lot of the time when I'm looking for something to download on newsgroups like maybe a lesser known band I can't find it and itll usually be available via BT. Although I guess this is becoming less of an issue with some things because data retention is increasing so much.
 
Here's my problem: I'm sitting here with over a TB of "properly ripped and encoded" FLACs, and a horde of obscure movies, thanks almost entirely to BT. I have niche tastes, and I wonder if Usenet caters to a niche market. Honestly, I don't care at all about mainstream content.
 
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