I used to spend a lot of time on news:// protocol back in the 90s, but haven’t touched it for good 20 years or so.

Could anyone point me to a good primer on how to use USENET for piracy? Looking for advice on client software, or webapps, good services worth paying the subscription that will give me access to all the right newsgroups and archives.

Last time I used news, all this stuff was free, so I’m at a bit of a loss on what’s worth paying for.

Btw, I did try looking for answers before turning to Lemmy, but ended up with just a ton of SEO garbage articles designed to serve ads, waste time and provide no real answers :(

  • Alt+F4OPEnglish
    70·
    10 months ago

    Thanks! At this point I don’t yet know what an indexer is, so I guess I have much to learn!

    • MoonRavenEnglish
      110·
      10 months ago10 months ago

      An indexer indexes nzb files. Nzb files are like torrent files, they point you to the files you want. So the indexer says “takes this ABC.nzb file and you’ll get couch the latest Ubuntu iso cough”.