You have a usenet provider, like an ISP, which your subscribe to. I use giganews.
You need an application which can download and decode the binary files you download from usenet: grabit, newsleecher, etc.
You have to find the files. newsleecher offers a super search which costs $$. Sites such as newzbin.com index the contents of usernet much like a torrent tracker (nzb files are uploaded by moderators). You also can search individual files through newzbin, although not as thoroughly as with say newsleecher supersearch. A place like newzbin costs ~$15 a year.
So you end with somewhere from $5-30 a month for access to usenet. Then for best options you have a small cost for indexing services. If you download a lot then this is a great deal and a great overall resource. You can even go an extra lvl and get ssl with your downloads so no one would ever be able to tell what you downloaded. You will never get an ISP telling you downloaded xx.zip off of usenet, not going to happen. They can only tell that you are eating up bandwidth, that is all.
Ice can cover everything else since he recently made the plunge ;o
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