Popular torrent site TorrentGalaxy has been offline for two weeks, with no explanation from its operators. Members of the site's staff are also being kept in the dark, and many fear the site may never return. To the delight of copyright holders, the site's troubles are now being felt across the torrent ecosystem after the site's upload bots also stopped working.

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[–] Alk@sh.itjust.works -4 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Time to go to usenet.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 13 hours ago

The beauty of torrents is it’s completely free to use (+ decentralisation rocks). Unfortunately usenet doesn’t have that.

[–] drtaco@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Genuine question...why's this comment getting downvoted?

I use both torrents and usenet in my setup, and none of the usenet sites I frequent have done down like the big torrent sites in recent years. It seems like a reasonable suggestion.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 16 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Is usenet the Arch of piracy? Like in every thread about torrents someone jumps in with "I use usenet btw"

[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 13 hours ago

I use Arch to access usenet.

[–] dumblederp@aussie.zone 9 points 14 hours ago

I use torrents because they're free. A friend uses Usenet, and while it's a good service, they've got to pay for it.

[–] b1t@lemm.ee 15 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

The first rule of Usenet is: You don't speak of Usenet. They like being kept off the radar, but braggers can't help but bring it up every opportunity they get.

[–] thedrizzle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

The Sonarr/Radarr/Lidarr/etc team, and their support forums/subreddit are seriously the worst about this. Nearly every question, concern, or request with regard to torrent trackers is met with a smug response about usenet.

Assholes have started exploiting Sonarr's torrent pulling system to trick it into downloading fucking malware on people's computers, and rather than acknowledge this is an issue their users are facing and they should try and do something to help them, they've done nothing, expecting users to deal with it in their clients and through addons. The implication is if you're not using usenet, they don't care what their software puts on your computer. It's your fault for using public trackers.