Times change and the way we used to do things become less and less relevant. Can you still do it the old way? Sure but keeping up with the times does have it's advantages.Yeah I stuck with Easynews back in the early 2000s because it was one of the first ones that developed this amazing (at least at that time) in-house search engine with automatic unrar --> zip for easy download.
Then people came out with nzb, so I just never left.
Private trackers are ok but they require a seedbox.
My guess is the take down notices on usenet pushed more people to torrent.
Completely false. If your internet is shitty, a seedbox will help. It's not required otherwise.
True, but also I don't have to bother with getting block accounts anymore for older things (I was using Astra for main and a block of Tweak). I added transmission to my NAS. It seeds 24/7. I DO have a $10 seedbox for when I purposefully hit and run things or when I want to upload.
But no, pcslookout doesn't know what he's talking about. A seedbox isn't required for anything. It's certainly a luxury to have, but not necessary to survive on any of the trackers I'm on.
It is on some top private trackers.
Never heard of that rule and I am on 3 of the top private trackers. There are no respectable trackers that require a seedbox. Either you have one or you don't. Nobody gives a shit.
I have a Dognzb invite if anyone wants one.
Here Please!
No. He had already given it away
Why are you still d/l headers? Seriously it's not 1996.
I stopped using NNTP last November when my provider (GigaNews) became too difficult to navigate through. Seriously, how the hell does one open a binaries group and d/l +100 Million headers in a month? This changed in a handful of months when the same group got <<<1 Million headers in six months.
I still use it; Sickbeard, Couchpotato & Sabnzbd make me very happy. For older stuff I use torrents still.