Are there ways to use usenet without a payment/subscription?

  • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Don’t you need to spread your accounts across multiple providers due to the partial uploads in other to get a complete archive?

    Last time I looked, ever the .par technology to deal with missing segments was useless. I got the impression I’d need multiple accounts to have a chance at getting a complete download

        • theUnlikely@sopuli.xyz
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          1 year ago

          Wow it really was ages ago if you mention newsbin as an indexer. Nowadays, indexer usually refers to privately run services that index nzbs for you. Most require a subscription fee, but are worth it because without them you can’t really find anything manually anymore since the file names are all obfuscated. This really helps prevent copyright takedowns.