Usenet

Usetnet (the good 'ol usenet) works in a totally different way. While torrenting is a shared approach to the problem where users share data, bandwith and storage, usenet works by having a (one or more) centralized backbones of servers where all the data is stored and you can download from. On usenet, you do not have any requirement to share anything and the actual download speed can be significantly higher than torrenting. I will not get into details on how this works, but like for the other approach also here you need an indexer that allows you to find the content you want, but in addition you also need an access to the Usenet backbone you want to grab the content from. Both the indexer and the access server usually require payment for access.

Advantages of Usenet:

• Blazing fast download speeds (you will saturate your bandthwith, always)
• No sharing / uploading / seeding requirement: you grab what you want and leave
• Much more anonymity: encrypted traffic trough your ISP, no need for VPN (if any)

Disadvnatages of Usenet:

• You need to pay for access and for indexers
• The best indexers are ALSO difficult to get into (a bit like private torrents trackers)
• Music, books and audiobooks are sometimes less available

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