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The End: NZBMatrix closes

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Re: The End: NZBMatrix closes

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Post by StavrosK »

cookiecaper wrote: post #32
StavrosK wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These guys could benefit from BitCoin, if it were ubiquitous. Too bad...

They did utilize bitcoin. I purchased my VIP account with them via bitcoin.

My point was more that Bitcoin isn't widespread enough to compete with traditional payment processors yet, which would have saved these guys.

Re: The End: NZBMatrix closes

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Post by StavrosK »

hackerboos wrote: post #37
skippy wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The page up at Newzbin2.es (or at least the Google cached version for those of us in the UK) which shut recently mention that BitCoin is too complicated for most people. I never used it so can't say...

I agree with the premise that Bitcoin is too hard to use for all but the most technically minded people.

The fundamentals may be, but the implementation doesn't have to. One could easily just make do with "send" and "receive" functionality. Blockchain has a very nice android app.

Re: The End: NZBMatrix closes

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Post by kinnison »

aes256 wrote: post #19

Never understood the appeal of NZBMatrix. Just use a search engine like Binsearch, NZBIndex.nl, etc. In any case, with more and more takedown requests being directed at usenet providers, I think usenet's days as a safe haven for piracy are numbered.

I don't think usenet itself will be taken down - it actually pre-dates the world wide web - but the battle lines are now drawn.

Re: The End: NZBMatrix closes

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Post by shelf »

cookiecaper wrote: post #34
shelf wrote: post #23

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

I was getting a good amount of missing blocks on Astraweb only; I bought a backup news account from blocknews and haven't had any missing block issues since. It helps if people put big pars out.

I'll not jump ship until my downloads are frequently disrupted at the block level, across multiple providers. Pretty difficult to achieve, given the architecture.

Indices come and go... Much of the Usenet crowd know how to set up an indexer if need be. Perhaps a hidden service is warranted?

Re: The End: NZBMatrix closes

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Post by kinnison »

tvdw wrote: post #24

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?

Similar position.. but I was waiting a week or two before committing to actual money :) Glad I did. Going a bit old school at the mo, downloading headers from a.b.mm for example. Get some retention up myself, might take a while!

Re: The End: NZBMatrix closes

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Post by daniel777 »

you can bet your bottom this fact''Federation Against Copyright Theft Limited''will be into all nzb providers now by attacking the index list making sites like nzb matrix take down massive amounts of copyrighted movies and other copyrighted items, changes in the usenet indexing this looks bad all round for us downloading they cant get the server providers so they will go after the next best thing the index system that list content.

Re: The End: NZBMatrix closes

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Post by nwh »

asdfaoeu wrote: post #39
nwh wrote: post #20

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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…

You can always just upload the nzb file to Usenet and reference that.

That's usually where the indexing sites get them from in the first place. The issue comes when you're a client that's not indexing continuously; downloading billions of headers to try and find a particular NZB is a mammoth task.

Re: The End: NZBMatrix closes

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Post by ComputerGuru »

StavrosK wrote: post #42
hackerboos wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree with the premise that Bitcoin is too hard to use for all but the most technically minded people.

The fundamentals may be, but the implementation doesn't have to. One could easily just make do with "send" and "receive" functionality. Blockchain has a very nice android app.

The problem isn't in the payment part, it's with obtaining bitcoins from dollars.
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