NZB (Usenet) vs DC Hubz

[Peganum]

Some say worth to look around on NZB for rare /old releases . Never used this service myself .
Anyone has got experiences with Usenet regarding to Scn rls?
Thx

 

[RiNCEWiND]

I am using it... It was great, i mean its still great if you have access to good usenet indexer... Usenet got some major problem one year ago if i remember correctly, all older stuff got deleted... There were major efnet channels where people was posting to usenet but they are inactive now... I was uploader there before i lost almost all my data... Now all releases are obsfucated... Speed is dope on it...

 

[aGGyunit]

For new stuff it is great (if you have the right indexers for what you want), stuff from 1+ year ago can become a problem if it was not downloaded a lot as many Usenet providers are deleting files to save space.
Really old files are usually still online (except the DMCA'd ones).
Releases from 2015-2018 are often hard to find as Usenet started cross posting and obfuscation started due to copyright takedowns etc.

A good healthy DC hub would be much better for old files than Usenet.

The daily upload to Usenet is something stupid like 100TB, no company can save all that data so tons is getting deleted / lost after a few months.

For Usenet you need a good provider (paid) and good indexers (paid). DC hub would be free

 

[viliux80]

I recently discovered Usenet and found some old scene stuff, but some is sadly corrupted and I can't complete downloads. DC++ hubs are better IMO.

 

[flarb]

you can use search engines like nzbking to find old releases - works great for old tv, music etc.

scenenzb and usenetcrawler are good for more recent scene stuff

 

[traka]

For usenet I use nzbgeek (paid) and nzbfinder (free) but most music and older console releases are easily found with nzbking

 

[dnbx]

It’s inconvenient to download one file at a time, just like a torrent. many releases are not downloaded, all clients are not convenient and have little functionality. anyway, you still have to pay for them. in short, stupidity. Compared to DC, DC is a better option and absolutely free!

 

[aGGyunit]

Some say worth to look around on NZB for rare /old releases

If it's rare it's probably NOT on usenet (someone would have downloaded it and it would not be rare anymore).
Can you find old releases? Sure ... but define old?
Files from 2008/2009 upto 2025 can often be found on usenet .. but you will need more than 1 indexer and most are NOT free!

You also need a paid backbone provider to download from, often requiring 1 or more backup providers in case of missing parts.
Missing parts? Unlike filehosts or your harddisk, usenet stores everything in TINY parts and bits and pieces can go missing (this is become a HUGE problem for releases between 2022-2024)
How come? The daily amount of data uploaded to usenet is something stupid like: 475TB (4 months ago).
No company can keep all that and massive amounts of files are being deleted (seems 2022-2023 was the initial time-frame but it seems to expand in both directions as of late (no actual articles about this as usenet providers LOVE to brag about having 6000+ days of retention, just not everything from the last few years is saved for long).

Is usenet good? It depends what you want. Most scene releases make it to usenet as it all bots uploading (so every now and then you get incomplete releases etc).
Things are deleted very fast on some providers, others are not too bad.
Is it easy? Well it has a fair learning curve to get it set up and find all the sources etc.

DC would be many times easier for older/rare releases if you get into a good hub.
Install app, set it up and off you go.

They are 2 completely different things in the end .. and like dnbx said, DC is free ... usenet is not!

 

[redcoat]

It's paid but it's very cheap for what you get. I don't see why would it be necessary to choose one over the other when one can use both. There's more on usenet which is not in any DC++, and vice versa ^^