Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

Besides it being around since forever and predecessing all forums and reddit etc.

It's main selling points for pir8s are:

• max speed (depending on your uplink and your provider ofc. E.g. I get a solid 120mb/s)
• up to maaany years retention (how old the stuff you want could be. Depends on provider ofc. Currently 11yrs from the top of my head)
• no need to upload or be member of trackers to get the GOOD stuff. It's all the same to everyone.
• it's still not really mainstream (luckily) and hence less dmcas

Downsides compared to torrents?

• in theory torrents can be as old as torrent itself. In reality torrents die quickly.
• no social component like if you're really engaged in some private tracker
• to have it efficiently you'd either one or more indexers (like search-engines). There are free ones but they suck. And/or forums. As much stuff is encrypted/obfuscated for obvious reasons.

Overall I'm a cheapskate and pay like 2€/month for unlimited usenet with maximum retention and 50 connection on the best backbone plus 2x 10-12€ a year for indexers. But one totally would be sufficient.

In the end, we enter a movie/series-name, pick the right one from the results, wait a bit for the download and sorting to happen, then watch it in emby comfortably. The comfortable kind of piracy i dreamt of for nearly 3 decades 😊