Just saw on Titus Tech Talk that torrents are last decade, and newsgroups is where it’s at for this stuff. Of course he didn’t elaborate, so I need some help here.

What is he talking about, and what are these groups that can I enter er, avoid?

    • Fitzsimmons@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      9 months ago

      Been like a decade since I touched usenet but I do recall that requests were pretty common. Especially since the content expires. With a 5 year old torrent there’s a decent chance you’ll find a couple of seeders even on a public tracker and get it eventually, but with usenet that stuff does eventually rot away and you’ll have to request a reup.

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        9 months ago

        I mean usenet servers are running with insane retention… omicron hosts have 5648 day retention, other backbones are over 4500

        Unless it gets taken down, it doesn’t go away anymore… providers just keep retaining. I suppose that will end eventually… maybe some day the cost of storage will prohibit archiving 15 year old binary usenet posts.

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      9 months ago

      That’s down the the indexer you decide to use. The one I use (NZBGeek) does have a requests section where you can enter an IMDB id, TVDB id, or just a general description and any other necessary/desired details like quality and they’ll be filled by volunteers.

      TBH not something I’d actually looked into until now. I’m gonna go drop a request or two in there right now. There’s not much I’m missing, but the things I am I haven’t been able to find regardless of source.