Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

It's a different layer of the internet. It's really old, they used to post news there, now they post everything. You only download, do not upload, pay for privacy, have super high speeds, everything you see is down loadable as it's on servers and not from seeders.

Pay for a provider, the best one is Eweka. They have the servers, whatever you search you need to download from them (they have all the packages). Eweka has the longest retention, meaning the files are on their servers the longest (longer than 3000+ days I think). Get a download client, the best one imo is Sabnzbd Find indexers like Drunkenslug. And there are search engines and communities, and search applications like spotnet and spotlite. There are many communities out there, some are focused on media from a certain country for example, like only German spoken or subtitled content. Everything you download has been uploaded by someone, so it's very much community driven but you're not dependant on people their upload speed or online status.

Here's a beginners guide.

It also works flawlessly with Sonarr and Radarr to automatically download movies and series as soon as they come out in the quality and language you prefer. Just search for guides to set it up. It also works with torrents, but not as good as with usenet.

You need an indexer (like a tracker)
You need a provider (somewhat like cross between a seed, tracker and an ISP)
And a usenet client like SABNZBD.

How and what to choose is difficult.
With the upcoming black friday there will be very good deals available.

Honestly: Best case: Look on the r/Usenet reddit and read through the wiki. Or find a similar guide elsewhere.

A plattform creating a search for you ready to paste into google search for dorking.

In most private trackers, you get bonus points for availability that you can use to maintain your ratio.

I don't know why you're getting pushback on this, what you're saying is 100% correct. I spent around a decade just using Usenet and not bothering with torrents. Then I got into one highly sought after private tracker. I spent several months not downloading a thing except freeleech to create a buffer, which was going absolutely nowhere. Then recently I decided to test out this seedbox thing I'd heard so much about. I set it up to automatically download freeleech torrents the second they're posted. Even with that setup I discovered that I still can't get a 1:1 ratio. A bot that downloads the freeleech torrent the instant it's posted still only achieves a 0.5 ratio. It's madness. Within 20 minutes of being posted, the torrent will have 150 seedbox users seeding it and no one else will be able to upload a single byte.

Before this I was manually downloading freeleech torrents that I found interesting, and was literally getting a 0 ratio by doing that. Now I know why. This system encourages everyone to buy seedboxes, which then makes it impossible for regular Joe shmoes to use private trackers, unless they signed up back in 2013 or something

There are private trackers where you can earn a currency based on seeding uptime, not actual upload. Then you can spend the currency to get more download buffer. Farm the currency by just downloading and seeding a bunch of freeleech stuff.

I've determined it's basically impossible to do that if you don't own a dedicated high-bandwidth seedbox

Completely untrue. I don't have a seedbox, never had one, and I keep perfectly fine ratios on two different private trackers. One has a ratio of 56 I think, the other (the one I use the most) has a ratio of 4.5, both just have a minimum requirement ratio of 0.5 i think before you're kicked.

I just have a computer on my home network, which is also the media server.

I've been in numerous private trackers and all of them offer bonus points from seeding that you can use to 'buy' ratio if people aren't downloading from you. You might also ensure that you have port forwarding setup if nobody is ever connecting to you because even though I rarely ever get a lot of seed ratio, I usually get something on most files and this is all through my home internet connection.

I've been on a few different private trackers since the early 2010s and I had 1-5mbps upload for like a decade and I've never had any issues with ratio on any of them

Massively depends on the private tracker. Some have a hard economy where you must seed every byte, but there are plenty of trackers that have bonus points based on seed time and torrent size which you can exchange for download allowances.

Some easy to get in trackers are torrentleech and seedpool, AFAIK both of them have open signups occasionally.