Thread: USENET: How to kick your torrent addiction forever!

sure,there's no differences,you just have to pay for the service,pay for the engine and have limited down/up,so,i'm really happy with this habit of mine,it seems to me that the author was trying really hard to advertise usenet...

cheers for the info looks alreet but i think il stick to what i know lol

Hmm I do agree free seems better than fee.. Not that hard to download files with torrents anyhow.. Seldom any problems with speeds as far as I have expected.

Thanks for the information, very well done. I have tried usenet trial membership. it was cool, but not real easy to find content. and the whole pay thing... Im cheap I suppose.:laugh:

torrents for me...I like the whole community thing too...


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Originally Posted by damnation

Thanks for the information, very well done. I have tried usenet trial membership. it was cool, but not real easy to find content. and the whole pay thing... Im cheap I suppose.:laugh:

torrents for me...I like the whole community thing too...


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yes same! i remember the days when my isp gave me free usenet access...but then bitorrent became so popular, that they started clamping down on all filesharing methods...

and it was also actually quite difficult to search for the files, especially when they had been split into multi-parts! i was always scared that i would get 39 out of 41 parts to a file, because part 2 and part 29 etc of the file were missing....and then there was the "recovery method" to recreate the missing files ...that was always sort of a hit and miss.

usenet was good (esp for HIGH-SPEED downloading!) but i like torrents better too. You download one tiny .torrent file and the client does the rest for u ;) so much less stress, and oh did i mention its free?

Added a little debate between FSF and usenetshack.com to the OP. Enjoy =)

I remember there was a Usenext trial, but I couldn't figure out how it worked so i just ditched it :P Thanks for the article though, good read.

Although I agree that Usenet is superior, there are a few downfalls.

Very hard learning curve for beginners that enter into the world of NZB's, Usenet, Parse files and Binaries.

There are also a higher cost than torrenting because you have to pay for an agregator website that groups these rogue files together on the usenet (such as NZBmatrix etc.) and although the cost is low, it's still a cost. I used OSX and Unison created a great application for parsing and uniting the usenet files after the download but it costs $30.

I agree that usenet is more expensive than torrents. The only reason I would consider usenet would be if I felt torrents were too slow or took too much time to get. So then I would be paying to avoid lost time. However, I have my router setup to automatically download torrents right now, so I waste 0 time on torrents and its all free.