• incognito08@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    17 days ago

    Without seeds, torrents become almost useless, and many pirate sites offer rare and hard-to-find movies/animes whose torrent versions never download because their seeds are practically extinct forever. So I don’t think this is a weak complaint. If torrents didn’t have this weakness I would always choose to use them but…

      • TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works
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        17 days ago

        Usenet is awesome, but the fact that you have to pay for Usenet access defeats the main purpose of pirating for a lot of people.

        Don’t get me wrong, it is super cheap(60$-100$/year?) and worth it to pay for Usenet from what I understand, but as a poor kid that discovered torrenting out of necessity, paying for Usenet back then would’ve been out of the question. I imagine a lot of Gen Z kids feel the same about it at this point in their lives.

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          16 days ago

          Sure, but as treasure hunters, it is a necessity, if you are not using private tracker for finding torrents

          And, you don’t kill torrents if you use the usenet instead of leaching (e.g. because seeding is illegal in your country but leaching is allowed)

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        17 days ago

        Especially if you buy access via 2 providers on different backbones. Haven’t had a single failed/incomplete download since.