Bittorrent vs. Newsgroups

[cubbyche]

Seeds are for the birds

[0ctane]

Newsgroups ftw max connection speeds , no seeding . encrpyted connections /ssl
Most scene releases are posted there before BT sites .

And also downloading from usenet is not illegal , only uploading to it

[Broken]

Newsgroups ftw max connection speeds , no seeding . encrpyted connections /ssl
Most scene releases are posted there before BT sites .

And also downloading from usenet is not illegal , only uploading to it

Downloading is illegal, it's called "conspiracy to commit copyright infringement". But this is a criminal charge that can not be filled by the MPAA/RIAA. A law enforcement agency such as the FBI would have to file it. They (the FBI) have better things to do with their time than go after individual users, they focus on the "scene" groups - and only half heartily at that.

While I brought up something negative there is a light.
Usenet has been around for 20+ years. In all of that time not one person has be charge with anything (civil or criminal) for downloading from it. Cases of people being charge for uploading to Usenet is far and in between.

All and all, it's the safest method for "getting stuff" there is.

[Diiyad]

I prefer bit torrents

[escuoop]

I think torrent is better

[lsforza]

Usenet in the first place, no ratio and max download speed.

[romerito852]

I prefer Bittorrent and P2M.

[punki_rach]

I'm just getting into newsgroups after relying on torrents for everything and my first impression is that torrents are a little more user friendly, especially when it comes to searching but maybe that's just because I haven't got the hang of usenet yet. The speeds on newsgroups are great but I've never really had an issue with slow speeds on torrents. So at the moment I think I prefer torrents but my opinion might be different by the end of the year. At the beginning of last year I thought kazaa was amazing

[hoka81]

sure bittorrent

[typeoholic]

Even the better thing out is still Rapidshare, Megashares and so on it's better than Newsgroups in my view, because i can compare Newsgroups to Limewire or such as emule they are slow for me...
With Rapidshare i get what i want when i want and for free since i uploaded some few things on a free account then i got premium... But newsgroups doesn't offer that kind of stuff, they like the money too much and advertising too much as well...

No offense to you, but Rapids**t doesn't even compare to torrents in the least bit. I'm running a 10mb DL / 5mb UL DSL, and I will put money on the fact that torrents will blow RS out of the water any day of the week or month. How do I know? I moderate a warez forum where everything is on RS/MS/MU, and I have premium accnts to all of the above.

Torrents are faster; I have proved it on this end.