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thank you very much
There was a time where your ISP provided access to a Usenet server for free, but they didn't have all the newsgroups like alt.binaries or even the whole alt hierarchy. Nowadays you gotta pay for access, and you'll get access to all newsgroups. With the deals going on now, unlimited access is cheaper than most any streaming service.
OH speaking of ISPs, will they figure out that I'm using this service and serve a C&D notice, the way they used to for torrenting movies?
No.
You don't get salty emails from your ISP for downloading torrents, you get them because (due to the nature of how torrenting works) you're also uploading the torrent to other users at the same time.
Usenet users download from the data providers. Because it's not crowdsourcing the hosting like torrenting, it's generally not free (hence this post about deals). The trade-off for having to pay is that you don't have to share that risk with the data providers. It's more akin to watching a pirate streaming site than torrenting: you'll never get an email about consuming it, but you might visit one day and realize the site's been taken down or had the domain changed because the owners got the email instead.
roger that, with thanks