Best way to access newsgroups?

Having seen that torrents are getting worse for certain pirated material, what's the best way for someone to get started on newsgroups?

Google only brings up advertising.

Newsgroups is expensive way..Only way u are going to get reasonable access to it is to pay.
You won't find any free servers, that's for sure.

Here's some good usenet tutorial: http://www.slyck.com/ng.php?page=1