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Comment by dpkirchner | Hacker News Reader

I'm not you so I don't know your situation but the thought of having to manually download and share media whenever my mom calls me up sounds miserable. I'd rather just pay for her subscription.

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My system is 100% automated. Sonarr + Radarr + Prowlarr + Deluge + SABnzdb FTW.

I stuck to using torrents for years but about 6 months ago I switched to Usenet and the $10 p/m for the Usenet provider and $30/year for an indexer is definitely worth the money. Now instead of having hundreds of seedless torrents in my queue, my system downloads even the most obscure media at a speed that completely saturates my connection.

First rule of usenet! do you want it to end up like zlib?

I always had back luck finding odler stuff, am I just doing it wrong then?

Torrents tend to stay somewhat alive way longer.

I miss the glory days of rapidshare, fastupload, rapidleech, megaupload ...

Which Usenet provider are you using? I used Giganews back in the day and I see they are still operational. Thanks.

What indexer(s) do you use?

Manually? There's out of the box ways to automate essentially everything including new requests

There's a lot of things I'd want to address beyond the tech: I'd want the videos to have good subtitles, to actually be what was requested and not have surprise porn or whatever, for examples. I don't think these are things I could automate. Netflix is likely to include subtitles and will never return video that wasn't requested. I dunno, it's work the few bucks a month.

Streaming services including Netflix regularly omit subtitles for non-english dialogue, I've found. For a significant number of movies this this can make them unwatchable.

This is easily automated using Ombi and the other tools folks have mentioned in other comments.

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