Not having to worry about seeders/leeches, ratios, using a VPN, or waiting to download is worth the $6 for everything I pay per month. I can get a 10gb movie in a matter of a few minutes. Once you experience Usenet for yourself, it’s really hard to go back to mucking about with torrents. Feels like the dark ages.
As for obscure stuff, yeah, you can still download anything on the server at full speed, no matter how old it is. Most servers have 3-5000 days retention. Never had any trouble finding a TV show, and the oldest I’ve personally downloaded is a 10 year old show, which of course I downloaded as fast as my connection could handle. No searching for a torrent that’s not dead, as long as it’s still there, it downloads. No wait, no hassle, just click a button in Sonarr/Radarr and and 30 seconds later I’m watching it.
Maybe. But the 5000 day retention most servers have is since upload. It doesn’t relate to how old the series or movie in question is. If you search for a title, you’re almost certainly going to find a few dozen or so versions of that title in various definitions and age. For example, just for kicks, I searched for episodes of the Andy Griffith show, and the oldest files I found were 3700 days old. The series is a bit older than that, of course.
You can get plenty of older shows on Usenet it’s not like you won’t find something like Star Trek from the 60’s. Hell I recently started downloading V from 1984 so…
Not having to worry about seeders/leeches, ratios, using a VPN, or waiting to download is worth the $6 for everything I pay per month. I can get a 10gb movie in a matter of a few minutes. Once you experience Usenet for yourself, it’s really hard to go back to mucking about with torrents. Feels like the dark ages.
As for obscure stuff, yeah, you can still download anything on the server at full speed, no matter how old it is. Most servers have 3-5000 days retention. Never had any trouble finding a TV show, and the oldest I’ve personally downloaded is a 10 year old show, which of course I downloaded as fast as my connection could handle. No searching for a torrent that’s not dead, as long as it’s still there, it downloads. No wait, no hassle, just click a button in Sonarr/Radarr and and 30 seconds later I’m watching it.
Sounds like usenet isn’t something for me then… I think 90% of our movie/tv library is more than 10 years old
Maybe. But the 5000 day retention most servers have is since upload. It doesn’t relate to how old the series or movie in question is. If you search for a title, you’re almost certainly going to find a few dozen or so versions of that title in various definitions and age. For example, just for kicks, I searched for episodes of the Andy Griffith show, and the oldest files I found were 3700 days old. The series is a bit older than that, of course.
You can get plenty of older shows on Usenet it’s not like you won’t find something like Star Trek from the 60’s. Hell I recently started downloading V from 1984 so…