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Torrent. Started using torrents in the 2000's. Stopped for a while, but now I'm back to torrenting. Searching for and curating my collection is part of the fun for me.

Neither. Real Debrid

I use sonarr, radarr, overseer, prowlarr, and a bunch of other shit.

I exclusively use torrents. Everything is automated and in dockers. No reason to use Usenet IMO. It gets me nothing torrents don’t already do.

torrents automated with all the Arrs

Well to be fair it depends on personal preference rather than a technology being better than other. I used to torrent everything but nowadays I just subscribed to RD and with Stremio or Kodi + Trakt I got everything I need without having to worry for searching.

Torrents, I like the community and indefinite retention. And with 1gbps home connections becoming more common staying in ratio has become way easier.

Been on torrent for many years, recently started using the *arr stack, it's fantastic. For torrents I source them from a private tracker, difference of quality and speed is night and day.

I see multiple private torrent tracker users in here. I primarily use Usenet, but is anyone willing to shed some light on the private torrent scene? Wouldn't mind having a backup for anything that fails on Usenet but don't have a clue where to even start research on good/reputable private trackers.

I rely on usenet for 90+% of content acquisition, but I have torrents for stuff I can't easily find or older content that is not recent release.

Usenet ftw - i can never go back to torrenting

Torrents and muthafuckin' DC++!!!

I'm using torrents much less since fmovies. I just stream my shows and movies now. Music is also getting harder to find so I went back to Soulseek. For everything else, I'm using Tribler, an open source torrent client using onion routing.

Its funny that you say "still using torrents" while the usenet is basically older than torrents

Both configged on the *arrs.

I just got Sonarr and Radarr setup with Overseerr and Jackett and got my family on Plex so we can cut the cord on Netflix. Overseerr supports downloading from Plex watchlists so they don’t even need to use Overseerr to auto download movies. I still need to figure out how to sort and download better ones since I’ve selected “seeders” as the download is sometimes prioritizing quality.

I’m in a private invite only torrent site, and most shows/movies have an amazing availability. Seeding is a requirement and becusee its private, my ISP doesn’t send me DMCA notices.

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I’ve been on the torrents for ages but just started with Usenet this weekend. So I’m dual wielding with Usenet as first priority.

Torrent and ed2k/kad networks

I've only heard good things about Usenet but personally, I can find almost anything I want via DDL so that's where it's at for me

Usenet for most things movies, music, tv, ebooks, etc.

I don't really pirate software or pc games at this point.

Torrents for things like rom collections and console games for emulators.

Also randomly will torrent things like magazine packs for old mags like computer shopper from archive.org for whimsy.

It's fairly seldom I need to but if then I use torrents.

I don't DL that much and it's usually just books so I still use torrents and a VPN.