submitted 7 months ago by tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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?

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[-] Fitzsimmons@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 7 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.

[-] astanix@lemmy.world 2 points 7 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.