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Torrents have been out of favor for a while. The pros are using Usenet subscriptions and a Usenet indexer (search engine) combined with Plex and automated tools such as NZBGet and Sonarr.

I doubt the Usenet subscription would trigger any fines. This isn’t like torrents where some seeder could be giving IPs to whoever sends you the Abmahnung fines.

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>Torrents have been out of favor for a while.

Have they? Because it seems to me from my sample size of friends (say 20) that torrent+VPN is definitely the preferred method, way over usenet.

Usenet seems to be for people who are trying to download EVERYTHING (like OP was originally complaining about) instead of just watch movies occasionally.

Actual pros are just doing it for free with the same setup but added Prowlarr/Jackett and private trackers, so it's all free without having to pay for usenet. The issue then becomes getting access to the tracker, but it's not that hard, especially for general purpose ones.

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