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Anyone still using usenet? (lemmy.today)

submitted 2 months ago by Pat_Riot@lemmy.today to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Title says it. Is anyone still on the newsgroups? For reasons I need to amass a large collection of music in MP3 format, preferably full albums, and I'd like to do it somewhat quickly. Is there a better place to hunt before I buy news server access? I been on land for too many years.

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[-] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

lots of people using Usenet.

I have 2 main servers on 2 different networks, plus some block accounts as backup and a couple of indexers.

But for music, especially if its anything unusual, rare, or otherwise difficult to locate elsewhere, get onto soulseek. I use N+ personally and have uploaded ~80TB this year so far and downloaded about 600Gb. I dont do torrents very often so SLSK is how I give back to the community.

Soulseek is an old school free file sharing P2P platform, like limewire, kazaa, winmx, ed2k etc. just like the good old days.

[-] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 8 points 2 months ago

That sounds like a great place to start! Many thanks, matey!

[-] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

So I've wanted to try out soulseek as it seems awesome, but do you know if it's useable using a VPN? IceVPN, to be specific. i Have it running an openvpn config since theres no native linux client.

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