• How To Acquire Vids From Usenet With GNU/Linux

    From Farley Flud@ff@gnulinux.rocks to comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc on Mon Aug 10 23:47:44 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    Got a hankerin' for some vid? Why cough up the extortionate fee
    from the commercial channels?

    For every fucking binary thing, somebody somewhere has posted it
    to Usenet somewhere and at some time.

    Step 1:

    Point your browser to nzbking.com or https://binsearch.info.
    Then enter sufficient search info.

    When the desired title is located then download the NZB file.

    Step 2:

    Open the NZB file in Pan and download all the par2 and rar
    files. (Don't use Pan? Then go and jump off a cliff.)

    Note: your Usenet provider should have adequate retention as
    some posts can be 10 years or more old.

    Step 3:

    Once the download is complete check the integrity of the
    files using par2cmdline:

    <https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline>

    The command is simple:

    par2repair file.par2

    This will check and fix any errors. It may be possible that
    there were too many errors for the command to fix. In that
    case you are shit out of luck. Try a different post.

    Step 4:

    Extract the final product using unrar:

    <https://www.rarlab.com/rar_add.htm>

    Again, the command is simple:

    unrar x file.rar(1)

    Step 5:

    Enjoy the final product.


    You may want to build the above packages from source as any
    distro-supplied programs will be crippled with both generic
    build options and security "features" and consequently will
    be much slower than hand-built code.
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