But keep fighting … these websites and library apps are not safe. Don’t forget Z-library and even the Internet Archive lost a huge case which makes theri archiving/digitising of books illegal … They are attacking on all fronts. We can’t become complacent thinking we have options. Soon, we won’t.

Invidious got a Cease and Desist Letter from youtube.

Thanks for the explanation! First time I have somewhat understood what port forwarding does for torrents.

95% of Western Europe has better qol than the US

Oh damn, I didn’t know it wast that cheap. Do you get access to everything with that? Like apart from movies and TV, does it also have like niche software, obscure movies or lesser known books and such ? Also, what about hosting? In the past I had a good seedbox/VPS that I was paying $20/month for that I could use to maintain ratio on private trackers as well as host my own plex server. Would I have to spend more on my own server in addition to Usenet or is streaming available for Usenet?

Yea I agree with you there. At that point though, I’ll advice op to just get going with 1337x or torrentfreak or like any other good public trackers

IPT is shady af

Yea they probably downloaded the rar torrent

Is Usenet free? I was under the impression that there is a monthly fee attached to it

It is very easy. Use the monkarus version for hassle free download and install OR the GenP version for a slightly more complicated install but the install is directly from Creative Cloud official. Edit: https://w14.monkrus.ws/ – use this link for the monkarus version. The site is in Russian but has a US flag/UK flag on the right bar to translate the site