May I ask what I should look for in the log files to detect this (and so I can configure fail2ban correctly)?

This is a really great ELI5 explanation of how Usenet filesharing works technically, nice!

Have a look at my German Usenet beginners guide: https://github.com/PCJones/usenet-guide

Let me know if you need any further help

For all German speakers I have a beginners guide: https://github.com/PCJones/usenet-guide

I also use a Hetzner Storagebox for my Jellyfin instance, I mount it via SMB. Works great.

For German stuff there is xrel.to

Usenet is the secret for German stuff. I have a German beginners guide: https://github.com/PCJones/usenet-guide

This looks great! Does it have support for multiple regions/languages like Overseerr?

I can give you info about a provider that offers full F1 TV access for 20-30€/year, I’ve been using it for a few years now. It’s great and you can easily stream it on any device. Send me a DM if you want more info

You might want to have a look at Usenet. Yes, it costs money but it’s such a premium experience compared to torrents and you don’t have to care about seeding etc at all

Just having a Jellyfin instance for family and friends. I have everything in h264 for maximum compatibility to avoid transcoding. All 12 seasons of Bones (2005) take up 800GB alone for example. A 1080P Remux movie takes 10-40GB

Really depends on your usage. I have a few Terrabytes of Usenet traffic every month so I’m glad I don’t have to use block accounts for that

Radarr/Sonarr can’t handle multiple versions of the same movie/episode, so a lot of people have a second instance for 4K movies (so they can have both a 1080p and a 4K version of the same movie). Also if you have a lot of anime it can be worth it to have a Sonarr instance configured just for that

fileleechers is a board and not an indexer though right? So you can’t add it to Sonarr and Radarr

Feel free to correct me, I don’t know a lot about them since they are invite only

If you are looking for German (or German + English dual language) content it can be very hard to find stuff on public torrent trackers and it’s pretty hard to get onto private German trackers - but don’t worry, there is a solution:

Usenet and the indexer sceneNZBs.com that specialises in German releases have got you covered!

If you want to automate the search for German Dual Language content using Radarr/Sonarr I made a guide (that also works for torrents too): https://github.com/PCJones/radarr-sonarr-german-dual-language

I already responded to you on reddit, but for Usenet you really don’t need a VPN, only for torrents. I also told you to just use Radarr, Sonarr, Prowlarr and SABnzbd but since you also want something to play the items definitely keep Jellyfin. I also recommend to keep Jellyseerr as it’s a great way to request and find new movies and shows.

I’ll paste my original response from reddit here just in case someone else is looking for the same thing:

Assuming you want to fully automate it by using Sonarr and Radarr you can use my fork of docker-media-center which has SabnZBD for Usenet downloads:

https://github.com/PCJones/docker-media-center

Sadly I haven’t got the time yet to update the documentation but if you know docker you should be able to figure it out, if not I’ll gladly help.

You’ll want to remove all services you don’t want from the docker compose file (so for a simple Usenet Setup you’ll only want Radarr, Sonarr, Prowlarr, SabnZBD).

Important stuff missing from the documentation:

• the git clone link in the documentation is still pointing to the original repository, make sure to clone mine

• at some point docker will tell you that it can’t find the network global or local (one of these, I forgot which. But it’ll tell you) When that happens all you have to do is execute docker network create global (or local)

• after starting all services (especially SabnZBD) you’ll need to execute the file set_sabnzbd_hostname.sh once and then restart the SabnZBD container.

• In the sabnZBD Folder settings you’ll need to set the temp folder to data/temp (it doesn’t have to be temp, you can chose another name).

• In the sabnZBD Folder settings you’ll need to set the completed download folder to data/downloads

• In the sabnZBD Categories settings you’ll need to set the Folder/Path to data/downloads/radarr for movies and to data/downloads/sonarr for TV and anime

• you’ll have to add sabnZBD as download client in both Radarr and Sonarr. Just use sabnzbd as hostname

Once set up and configured it works like a charm.

And again, if you need assistance just let me know and I’ll help

It’s the same, it just adds support for jellyfin

Since you are looking for German movies you might be interested in my German DL Sonarr & Radarr guide:

https://github.com/PCJones/radarr-sonarr-german-dual-language

Does the dub even exist :D?

The provider is there to access the usenet, just like you pay your internet provider to access the internet (well, not exactly like that in a technical sense, but you get what I mean I hope). And yes, while there are some free/public indexers they are basically useless - so you do have to pay for both, usenet access and an indexer. It should still be cheaper than a seedbox though.

To start I’d recommend frugal Usenet for 40$ a year if you are mostly downloading new stuff:

https://billing.frugalusenet.com/signup/neQeZxl

If you are also downloading a lot of older (think 10+ years) stuff you should get ewaka for 48€/year (or keep an eye out for the 36€ year deal that pops up a few times per year):

https://www.eweka.nl/en/landing/special-deal

Let me know if you need more help :)