Best way of pirating printed magazines? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 month ago by lunsjentilanette@sh.itjust.works to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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What is considered the best/safest way to pirate printed magazines? On the Awesome Piracy-repo, there are some links, but they either don't work or look sus (except for maybe magazinelib.com).

If you endulge in free printed magazines, what is your preferred way?

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[-] loppwn@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 month ago

If youre ok with mainstream magazines like national-geographic, playboy etc you should take a look on usenet-indexers. With an usenet downloader with rss support you could also subscribe to certain keywords and get the new issues right after release in a separate folder downloaded.

[-] lunsjentilanette@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

Thanks for the tip! I've always found Usenet to look too complicated with too high a cost for my rather limited use. But I keep seeing it recommended, so maybe I should give it a go at some point.

[-] piratetarip@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I haven't really looked into the availability magazines, but a block account (rather than a subscription) would probably last you ages, since I assume the size of each issue would be rather small. So that would be a small onetime payment.

As for indexer I guess it depends on what you need, but there are some with free tiers.

As for complicated I don't think Usenet is any more difficult than other methods. At least for movies/series it's a one time setup to automate everything and then it is extremely convenient.