Torrent sites?

[elementxero 10+ year member]

I had problems with torrents about 2 years ago, very slow, couldn't find what I wanted, etc. I now use them and have no problems. I download very fast, have found very, VERY old things, such as NFS 3: Hot Pursuit on PC. I own the game but it is scratched so it stops during installation. Yes, sometimes DL speeds are a tad slow (30 kb/s) but I reach near 250 kb/s which is about the maximum I usually download on a steady basis, not peak. IMO, it's just your experience with them and maybe you haven't used the right tools, who knows...but simply saying newsgroups > torrents just because of your experience doesnt make it true for everyone else's experience.

Compared to a guaranteed 1MB/Sec on cable for every download consistantly.

As far as obscure, I found Jedi Academy the other day in two seconds to replace some scratched discs I had (don't know why I had a craving for the multiplayer in that game lol). If you need something that you can't find it takes two seconds to post a request and some nerd will take great joy in digging it out of his file server and posting it up for you in a day.

All that said I do use torrents once in a while if I absolutely can't find what I need somewhere else.

RE: Private trackers the ones I was a part of back in the day were all Ratio driven. I want to purely leech without penalty instead of sapping my upload speed all day and night and redflagging me to my ISP. Is this still the case or have they moved away from this?

 

[newusername 10+ year member]

Private trackers are still ratio driven. That's part of what helps content. It does **** to upload and that is the big upside of newsgroups, but it is worth it for the perks.

 

[elementxero 10+ year member]

Private trackers are still ratio driven. That's part of what helps content. It does **** to upload and that is the big upside of newsgroups, but it is worth it for the perks.

ehhhhhhhh I dunno man. It's been a LOOONG time since I have not been able to find something I wanted on news, and I don't have to do shit except click download NZB and soak up the bandwidth for my apartment building for a while. Don't see a reason to sit around letting people sap mine.

I like that torrents exists, because if I can't find something on newsgroups chances are I can find a torrent or vice versa, but in the end the clean simplicity of news gives me a data erection that just won't quit.

 

[donpisto 5,000+ posts]

What newsgroups would you recommend? IIRC there was a site you mentioned, something about donating $2 a couple pages ago (i'm too lazy to go back and look). Is that what you use? I haven't tried newsgroups but I'd like to give it a shot. Would like to see how it compares to torrents for things I look for.