• Darkassassin07
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    Part of why I moved to usenet.

    Everything always downloads at full speed (limited by disc write speed in my case), so if there’s missing data you find out about it within a min or two instead of after 3 days of trying.

    Usenet also includes parity data so you can rebuild missing data to an extent.

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        Yup, point is I find out much much sooner and can move on to a new nzb. A single ~15gb nzb takes 5min max whether it succeeds or not. I’m never ever waiting on slow seeds.

        Multiple providers can improve availability, but I’ve seen no need. Everything myself or my users have requested has been found and downloaded within 25min, including re-tries. Typically it’s about 15min from user request to ‘available to watch’ email notification.

        Worse case I can fallback to torrents, but I haven’t had to yet with over 31tb out of usenet alone.

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        For the few things I can’t find; there’s still torrents. Usenet is just my primary source, and it covers 99% of what gets requested through my systems.

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        Private trackers can be a bitch to get into, and you have to re-seed what you download exposing yourself to copyright claimants and/or pay for a vpn on top.

        I just raw dog a usenet server for 5min/movie and I’m done. Faster, easier, and risk free.

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          I’ve yet to find a modern use for usenet as I’m not in the habit of downloading everything as it comes out, nor of looking for content within a few days of release. Often I’m looking for 2-5 year old content or back catalog, and usenet has been a uniform landscape of incompletes, even with two blocks on independent providers (or they were when I bought the data blocks).

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            The requests I receive from my users are typically from the 1990s up to current releases, but have gone as far back as 1951.

            I’ve only failed to find 5 of 140 requests since May.