/t/ - Torrents and Trackers

>Is there same amount of content there?
there's shit tons of content. though it depends on the retention time (how far back your provider's archive goes).

>How about non-English language content?
don't know

>a web interface
this might exist, i don't know

>credit card, which is kinda way too revealing
because the provider knows your name or because your bank knows you use the internet?
usenet has legit uses. as for the provider, pretty much all of their customers are also pirates. your isp or your vpn provider can see your web traffic and you pay them with card (unless bitcoin vpn but w/e)

i wouldn't really worry about it

>>81
maybe try ask on >>>/tech/

>>81
I used to have a headless box running some linux distro - can't remember which exactly but it was probably Ubuntu back in the early days - and hellanzb. It's still around and some good guides on how to configure it still exist.

A quick Google search has led me to better options such as SABnzbd and NZBGet. Web interfaces and all, even the option to get par archives to repair missing pieces.
Definitely a requirement when downloading from Usenet as some pieces can get corrupted/dropped easily.

I did this back when ISPs still had Usenet servers as part of basic service - FWIW I probably should have used a service that allowed secure tunnelling of traffic. If you're looking around for one at the very least go for that. Don't worry about using a VPN so much as at least having your connection between you and the Usenet server obfuscated so your ISP can't sniff packets (like they do with p2p/torrent on the default port to catch noobs).

My setup was simple, check around for a .nzb file of something that interested me, download it and the send it via a web frontend to my server. It would parse the file, connect to the Usenet server and begin gathering the relevant pieces, put them together, repair the archives if necessary, and even extract it and remove the archives and other unnecessary bits.

The amount of data I started gathering was enormous and this was when 500GB hdds were just hitting the market, so of course I had to have a JBOD/RAID5 setup which the nzb server eventually turned into. IIRC, torrents were also becoming a 'thing' and looked like an interesting way to contribute back to the community. I found an invite-only place called ftwr.in (it's dead now) and proceeded to gather a large amount of followers as well as find new things to grab from others. The amount of CDs I had to purchase to off-load my data onto strains credulity and I still have boxes of CDs I haven't touched in years, full of things I'll never use.

The amount of sheer technical knowledge I gained from running/securing my own servers and becoming a figure that others had depended on for their data (I liked to grab zero-day stuff then) was very useful. Fast-forward to now and I'm writing this from my Funtoo laptop (Gentoo derivative) and have been giving serious thought to starting yet another linux distro of my own design. Currently I'm a freelance DBA/Admin and am very happy with what I do.

I do hope that your foray into using Usenet and nzb is as fruitful as mine was.

>>81
Secondary note on the whole credit card thing - get cash, buy a prepaid.

Rinse, repeat.

You could buy a prepaid VISA/mastercard somewhere and pay for Usenet access with that. I wouldn't worry too much about it though, nobody gives a fuck that you're paying for access.

I used it till about a year ago. living on a college campus that blocked P2P traffic forced me to. to be totally honest you don't even have to worry about getting caught with it, because the providers always honor DCMA's; but they do this by removing a random block of the code.
now if you have say Supernews and a small block from somewhere else you can get that file completed. This DCMA honouring is what leads the RIAA to never look at users, and none of the users download data is kept by some providers.

As far as finding content

Fanzub for asian shit
dognzb.cr for regular things, auto snatch is nice.

>>226
>removing a random block of the code

Dude, that's what the .par archives are for. Even if they dropped a few posts or corrupted others the entire archive can be recovered.

I used Easynews from about 2004 through to 2011. It was awesome, fast, well-indexed, complete. I got tons of porn and movies from there.

I resubbed earlier this year because I missed it, and holy shit was there almost nothing. It wasn't worth the fees to keep it up, I almost never used it because I could never find anything I wanted.