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The End: NZBMatrix closes

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Re: The End: NZBMatrix closes

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Post by Wicher »

troels wrote: post #12
skippy wrote: post #3

The masses need to pick a new site to invest their energies in, rather than scatter at random to lots of different sites! Any particular one out there that's better than the rest?

As someone who hasn't used usenet for downloading content, why is it that it seems that a few central indexing services are the way people access this medium? Wouldn't it be possible - and preferable - to distribute the index through p2p? That way, there would be no single point of failure.

Such a project exists: Spotnet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotnet

The searchable information (and comments and such) is distributed through Usenet itself.

Re: The End: NZBMatrix closes

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Post by shelf »

thehodge wrote: post #6

I had noticed almost everything had been failing over the past few weeks with NZBMatrix... Back to torrents / DC++

I haven't experienced any missing binaries or bad NZBs recently, neither from NZBMatrix nor Astraweb. Can anyone corroborate this?

Re: The End: NZBMatrix closes

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Post by tvdw »

This is awkward... When newzbin shut down, I was without a NZB provider for a week. Then 2 days ago I paid for my membership at NZBMatrix. And now it's gone?

Re: The End: NZBMatrix closes

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Post by morsch »

nwh wrote: post #20
troels wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who hasn't used usenet for downloading content, why is it that it seems that a few central indexing services are the way people access this medium? Wouldn't it be possible - and preferable - to distribute the index through p2p? That way, there would be no single point of failure.

The index would be insanely huge. A lot of these indexing sites are used for their API. Dedicated applications like SickBeard automatically compile lists of wanted files (movies, TV rips and music) and use them to search against the provider. The provider returns a file (NZB) that contains references to hundreds of encoded files hosted on newsgroups. Here's a breakdown of one NZB, for a single 3.88GB file. Inside are…

There's no need for everybody to serve the entire index. Set up a DHT and let interested parties exchange the NZBs. All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection.

Re: The End: NZBMatrix closes

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Post by shelf »

Despite being 99% illicit content, could somebody explain why this is not a case for Safe Harbour? Is this principle enshrined in any law at all, or is it just some neutrality idyll that we assume others share?

*Thought it was part of the DMCA

Re: The End: NZBMatrix closes

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Post by upper2bits »

I've never used torrents and I've always used newsgroups. Does that make me old? Anyway, I feel naked now, with newzbin down and now this I feel I'm going to have to end my fun or try torrents which I'm worried about the legal issues. Are torrents "safe" now a days, what's the best approach (Seedbox?)
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