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Wow, Nzbmatrix is closed forever.

2,110 368 December 9, 2012 at 06:54 AM in Chat
The End...

It is with our regret to announce that NZBMATRIX has closed.

We have had to make this decision due to a very large takedown request from a company called Wiggin LLC. These represent the following: Federation Against Copyright Theft Limited ("FACT"), Paramount Home Entertainment International Limited; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Limited; The Walt Disney Company Limited; Twentieth Century Fox Film Company Limited; Universal Pictures (UK) Limited; Warner Bros. Entertainment UK Limited.

As everyone is aware we are DMCA/Takedown notice compliant, and always have been.
Once this notice is completed we are left with an impossible task of policing our indexing bots. Even then it won't stop there, there will be follow-up notices etc.

Coupled with this is problems with payment providers, we have been through pretty much everyone out there, in the end they all pull out.
There are massive server/bandwidth costs to pay, with the payments in-stability this is a very hard task.

NZBMATRIX has never been the subject of any legal issues or threats.

Also the Usenet Indexing scene is going through some changes, with content being removed from pretty much every provider its making the existence of an indexer irrelevant if the content does not even exists anymore.

So it's time for us to bow out...

I paid $10 vip member fee for it. oh well, I got what it's worth...

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chevvy
12-09-2012 at 05:00 PM.
12-09-2012 at 05:00 PM.
Quote from TigerStar :
Okay, I'll be the one.


I am familiar with torrents (legal ones of course). I have no clue what nzb files are. No clue what nbzmatrix is.


Can someone enlighten me?

The best way I know to put it is that torrents are for all of the world to share. NZBs are for newsgroups to share. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
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thizsukz
12-09-2012 at 05:04 PM.
12-09-2012 at 05:04 PM.
Quote from chewspam :
The best way I know to put it is that torrents are for all of the world to share. NZBs are for newsgroups to share. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
Yeah, also you download the files from dedicated servers. There is no sharing (uploading) no ratios etc. Simply pay monthly fee and download away. The deal is that your DL speed is most likely capped by your internet connection rather than by the usenet server.
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dzap
12-09-2012 at 05:10 PM.
12-09-2012 at 05:10 PM.
Quote from thizsukz :
Yeah, also you download the files from dedicated servers. There is no sharing (uploading) no ratios etc. Simply pay monthly fee and download away. The deal is that your DL speed is most likely capped by your internet connection rather than by the usenet server.
How is this a bad thing? I hated torrents for some older stuff because I would only be able to download it with that one guy in Romania at 3 kb/s.

Ratios also annoyed the crap out of me.
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marg_fan
12-09-2012 at 05:15 PM.
12-09-2012 at 05:15 PM.
Quote from TigerStar :
Okay, I'll be the one.


I am familiar with torrents (legal ones of course). I have no clue what nzb files are. No clue what nbzmatrix is.


Can someone enlighten me?
News groups (usenet) files are a series of articles (posts) that need to be downloaded together to complete the download. Instead of manually searching for each article by hand, nzb files index the articles needed to complete a download for you.

Or so I'm told. Wink
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PaintTheSkyGrey
12-09-2012 at 05:39 PM.
12-09-2012 at 05:39 PM.
Quote from dzap :
How is this a bad thing? I hated torrents for some older stuff because I would only be able to download it with that one guy in Romania at 3 kb/s.

Ratios also annoyed the crap out of me.
Where did he say it's a bad thing?
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thizsukz
12-09-2012 at 05:43 PM.
12-09-2012 at 05:43 PM.
Quote from dzap :
How is this a bad thing? I hated torrents for some older stuff because I would only be able to download it with that one guy in Romania at 3 kb/s.

Ratios also annoyed the crap out of me.
Sorry if it sounded like that, but I meant it as a good thing.laugh out loud
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lifexpert
12-09-2012 at 05:46 PM.
12-09-2012 at 05:46 PM.
anyone getting the homeland dexter nzb today?
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Albort
12-09-2012 at 06:00 PM.
12-09-2012 at 06:00 PM.
Quote from chewspam :
Oh I have no problem finding what I need, but I can't just browse by what's new based on source. Newzbin was so much nicer.
oh, i just use torrent sites for a list... Stick Out Tongue easier that way...
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dzap
12-09-2012 at 06:40 PM.
12-09-2012 at 06:40 PM.
Quote from PaintTheSkyGrey :
Where did he say it's a bad thing?
I just thought when he said "the deal is..": etc. that he was saying it was a trade-off. Guess I misinterpreted it.
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slickfree
12-09-2012 at 06:43 PM.
12-09-2012 at 06:43 PM.
Quote from lifexpert :
anyone getting the homeland dexter nzb today?

Doubt its going be up today.
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BDeck
12-09-2012 at 07:33 PM.
12-09-2012 at 07:33 PM.
Just found out about this when my Dexter episode didn't auto-download laugh out loud

Shit. Gotta find an alternative. Sub'd - hope we can help each other out here.

Eta: I've got an NZB for Dexter, PM me if you need it. I don't think it's allowed to be attached here.
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Last edited by BDeck December 9, 2012 at 07:36 PM.
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lifexpert
12-09-2012 at 07:35 PM.
12-09-2012 at 07:35 PM.
Quote from slickfree :
Doubt its going be up today.
Homeland was up for 3 hours now.
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robertsm
12-09-2012 at 07:47 PM.
12-09-2012 at 07:47 PM.
Anyone here rolling your own indexer with newznab?

I'm starting to think that independence may be the way of the future.
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Schemerte
12-09-2012 at 08:05 PM.
12-09-2012 at 08:05 PM.
:::Nothing to see here::::
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12-09-2012 at 08:22 PM.
12-09-2012 at 08:22 PM.
Quote from Allilew :
Where? I just tried to get it from Binsearch and got errors. Thanks!
I was too late. too many missing files.
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