Usenet vs. Torrents ( security)

technodrome said:
but many of good trackers are much safer than anything.. U only have to get in a high level tracker..
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Yes, but then people will spread the word of these trackers causing unwanted attention, then you'll have Anti-piracy bodies getting invited for these trackers and then they'll get your IP's.
 
masscrazy said:
But i have found torrents to be so much better. Organised, easy to use, exact same speeds, just not as safe but thats the only downside oh and the little thing known as uploading/seeding back. But its worth it.
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You must have a very slow connection.. And when you sit in a torrent swarm you might as well have a name tag on that says "Hello, My name is Bob"

The only thing I torrent is basically what it was initially designed for... Easing loads for servers.. In my case OpenSource.. I seed a couple of distros 24/7 for forever now.. How about those ratios.. I upped Debian Stable at 25Kb/s for 2 years..
 
Turtles said:
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Get Newzbin or something similar if that's your problem.
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I got it, but again got to pay, boo. I got the grabitsearch package, its ok same thing as every index site.

What the hell are .par2 files? Some error checking/solving files, i got 500MB extra to download for rar files that were perfectly fine without the par2 files, what gives.
 
saulin said:
Or you can pay $11 a month to have access to 240 days of retention.
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Yah astraweb is pretty sweet.

+1 on Usenet being safer. Torrents aren't very secure. If one person jumps on the torrent they can see all the other IP addresses on that torrent. Alot of countries laws are against the uploading (distribution of the content), not the downloading (or at least the distribution penalty is alot more severe than the downloading one).

Not only use usenet more secure (especially if you enable SSL encryption and no one can tell what your downloading), you don't have to upload, which means you weren't distributing copyright content.

If you look at the court cases in the US its all P2P and reason the amounts are so large is because the RIAA/MPAA is saying the individual distributed using p2p.
 
Buschwusch said:
yeah, and that's not too easy ;-)
atleast if you want a good tracker.
i'll give usenet a try...
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Even so, they log everything about you, there are no impending cases against Newsgroup providers, one most ISP's offer them for free, and next other providers fall under "common carrier law". So, if a private site gets busted and they got logs, guess what your tagged :yup:
 
vnqish said:
I assume you mean Astraweb? But the problem is to find the asian movies/music etc? Which is why I'd look for NBZ at asianusenet.
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You mean that asianusenet is not free? Well if it isn't. As long as you know the name of the shows or the names of artists for music that you are looking for you should be able to find them on many sites that index usenet posts.

You don't necesarily need nzbs to queue the files you need. You just need a search engine. I never use nzb sites. I just use usenet search engines. I use super search in Newsleecher or use the search engine in Easynews. There are others that are free that work great too. like newzleech.com or binsearch.info
 
222MHz said:
You must have a very slow connection.. And when you sit in a torrent swarm you might as well have a name tag on that says "Hello, My name is Bob"

The only thing I torrent is basically what it was initially designed for... Easing loads for servers.. In my case OpenSource.. I seed a couple of distros 24/7 for forever now.. How about those ratios.. I upped Debian Stable at 25Kb/s for 2 years..
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Nope, i have a 12-13Mb connection i get 1.6MB/1.7MB/s. Torrents the speed (with good seeds ofcourse) stays at a CONSTANT 1.66-1.7MB. Usenet it fluctuates. Sometimes i get the full 1.6MB/s, usually around 1.4MB. Also i get different speeds on different clients, which is odd.

technodrome said:
but many of good trackers are much safer than anything.. U only have to get in a high level tracker..
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Im lucky i got the level 10 tracker, and last 5-6months of freeleech has been delightful, got 150gb buffer with my crappy upload. Ha, and i just noticed it has SSL and im already using it access the site.

cinephilia said:
many private trackers support SSL..
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222MHz said:
the best part of torrents is also it's worst part... Torrents are for school kids w/o access to a credit card...
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That's often overlooked, but it is true. I used torrents for a while, but when I realized I could rise above the fray for the price of one movie ticket, I never looked back.
 
masscrazy said:
That was quite funny. But i already did that, and as i said i know they're there for error checking and repairing .rar files but i downloaded an extra 500mb par2 files for rar files that were perfectly fine, unless they were repaired on the fly. Anyway its only 500mb, no big deal.
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The first time the .rar files aren't all there, you will be very happy.
 
masscrazy said:
That was quite funny. But i already did that, and as i said i know they're there for error checking and repairing .rar files but i downloaded an extra 500mb par2 files for rar files that were perfectly fine, unless they were repaired on the fly. Anyway its only 500mb, no big deal.
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What client do you use? Alt.Binz allows you to set it so it will only download par2 files if a file is incomplete, even then it will only download the nessecary amount instead of just all of them. If you download a lot from usenet then this would save you quite a lot of time and bandwidth. :)
 
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