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Most don't like usenet since it cost money, but you're absolutely right, usenet is the best way. It's what I've been using for over a decade now lol
For the cost of one streaming subscription I've got all content, downloads at full speed and is private. Can't imagine life without Usenet and sonarr/radarr now
I need a tutorial on this
Get yourself a nice newsgroup, and an nzb indexer(search site for newsgroups) . Install nzbget, sonarr and radarr and Google for the parts you get stuck on.
I recommend a 2nd newsgroup subscription at a different place, because (in layman's terms) to appease the dmca strikes they delete a single file of the download, and chances are a different server deleted a different file, so your downloads are complete enough to parse the rest together.
Sounds mildly wonky and technical, my curiosity is piqued.
It takes a little more fiddling than torrents but is anything but wonky.
Can this be traced by the police or other state agencies? Or is this truly anonymous?
https://www.cogipas.com/is-usenet-safe/
This is the one I used years ago: https://blog.harveydelaney.com/configuring-your-usenet-provider-and-indexer-with-sonarr-radarr/
The nuts and bolts should be the same. I imagine his recommendations on what backbones and newsgroups to subscribe to are out of date, though.