submitted 9 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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[-] shrugal@lemm.ee 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

He's talking about Usenet.

You need a provider (giving you access to it), some indexers (communities that catalog and link to releases) and a download client, and you're good to go. What you actually don't need is a VPN, because you're only loading from the provider and not seeding anything.