Welcome to the NZBMatrix.
I don't care who you are, if you see an agent, you do what the rest of us do. You run. You run your ass off.
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#102Never 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.
Automation is allot easier on a pre-indexed, pre-QAd, pre-tagged and pre-filtered data than it is on the raw underlying data itself.
Almost all the automation tools spoke newzbin and nzbmatrix.
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#103Question for those with Usenet know how. When downloading raw headers, I have observed a convention where the title is a random string of letters and numbers, and within the post are for example 50 rars and 10 pars. How are consumers 'decoding' the title so they know what they are getting? Does the uploader provide a translation? Or can the 'real title' be recovered programmatically? Many thanks.
Can you give an example?
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#104This is a major blow to usenet. But more importantly this could be the start fo something very very bad for usenet. It, and it's users of who I am sure there are plenty on HN, have so far been able to fly under the anti-piracy radar of the big media companies. This clearly demonstrates that they know exactly what is going on, and may be on the war path to shut down more indexes and search engines.
Nauseating. Piracy killed the real Usenet, and now pirates are upset that enforcement is killing the goofy little playground they built inside its corpse. When I was 18, I ran a competitive (on the Freenix leaderboard) full-feed Usenet server for the ISP I worked at. Every ISP in the world could have provided full-feed Usenet access, but for the assholes who loaded the system down with ASCII-encoded binaries. Even wh…
I was also running a news server for my school and an ISP around the same time (1994-1996). The alt.binaries hierarchy was a constant headache. The total data flow and storage requirements were already about 10X the rest of Usenet. We had to manually tweak refuse lists when the disk drives filled up.
I wasn't still around, but I expect the second wave of automated binary posting/retrieval tools in the late 90's probably created the surge that changed Usenet access into a separate paid service, no longer something that came with an ISP account like email.
However, it wasn't just warez and porn that killed Usenet. Spam took off there before email, and it wasn't until email spam became untenable that modern automated filtering tools were created.
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nauseating. Piracy killed the real Usenet, and now pirates are upset that enforcement is killing the goofy little playground they built inside its corpse. When I was 18, I ran a competitive (on the Freenix leaderboard) full-feed Usenet server for the ISP I worked at. Every ISP in the world could have provided full-feed Usenet access, but for the assholes who loaded the system down with ASCII-encoded binaries. Even wh…
I like the imagery. So I am chuckling at the idea that some young guns who want to be "free" to do what ever they want in their network of computers to come up with a scheme where they are will use telephones to call up one computer to the next, and addressing will be free form a series of "hops" where you tell the computer what sequence of machines will have to be called in order to get your message from you to your…
Honeydanber + Node.js. Ugh, can't wait.
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#106I had noticed almost everything had been failing over the past few weeks with NZBMatrix... Back to torrents / DC++
> DC++
Wow, a blast from the past - AND a comment asking what it is.
Is it weird to feel old at 29?
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#107Move the site to TOR and let digital copyright enforcement cops try to figure that one out. All they can do it push it completely underground and once the site is on TOR they have zero recourse or means to track down the operator.
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#108I'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?)
Torrents aren't really safe or unsafe, it's mostly about the quality of the trackers you use. There are some OK cultivated communities out there, but the worry over ratio and constant leech on one's upload stream is a real bummer when you can just purchasing blocks from a news server and not have to worry about it. A seedbox is way more expensive than a news account and usually comes with quotas which one must mind.…
Wouldn't connecting via a VPN sufficiently hide your tracks from the secret squirrels?
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nauseating. Piracy killed the real Usenet, and now pirates are upset that enforcement is killing the goofy little playground they built inside its corpse. When I was 18, I ran a competitive (on the Freenix leaderboard) full-feed Usenet server for the ISP I worked at. Every ISP in the world could have provided full-feed Usenet access, but for the assholes who loaded the system down with ASCII-encoded binaries. Even wh…
I like the imagery. So I am chuckling at the idea that some young guns who want to be "free" to do what ever they want in their network of computers to come up with a scheme where they are will use telephones to call up one computer to the next, and addressing will be free form a series of "hops" where you tell the computer what sequence of machines will have to be called in order to get your message from you to your…
We'll also need something to deal with these high-latency links. A piece of hardware which generates the ACKs locally so our computers will send faster will sell like gangbusters! It'll really pep up the connections.
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#110I guess in this era of Bitcoins and Tor hidden services, it's inevitable that a site using credit card funding and a public IP address for piracy is being shut down. Low-hanging fruit.