Once the cutting edge of the "internet" (pre-world-wide-web and mosiac days), Usenet is now a murky, geeky alternative to torrents for file-sharing. However, it's cool geeky, especially if you're into having a fully automated media platform.

A good starter for the usenet scene is https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/. Because it's so damn complicated, a host of automated tools exist to automate the process of finding, downloading, and managing content. The tools included in this recipe are as follows:

Antilibrary is a virtual library for ebooks collected from around the web and from libraries. The project is focused on non-fiction books. Our mission is to give access to the knowledge contained in books. We believe that ebooks piracy is still a necessary evil. Those who are most in need of knowledge are the ones who have the least access to it. Antilibrary is a band-aid fix to this hopefully temporary reality. If you have the means make sure you purchase the books you like! Supporting the author is the most important thing you can do if you like a book. Buy books to you and many copies to your friends and family. Go to your local bookstore and do it, now! Antilibrary is not an alternative to …

Read this RT @doctorow: Cory @doctorow: Why poor countries lead the world in piracy http://bit.ly/leAuW8

how to pirate books from IRC.