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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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PiratePenguin
12-11-2012 at 09:50 AM.
12-11-2012 at 09:50 AM.
Quote from chewspam :
p2p sucks. I hate depending on the speed of someone else and putting myself at risk.
Then buy from amazon nod
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square_one
12-11-2012 at 10:12 AM.
12-11-2012 at 10:12 AM.
limewire 4 lyfe!
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Kolto
12-11-2012 at 11:46 AM.
12-11-2012 at 11:46 AM.
Quote from Frogstar :
Shhhhh!

I haven't used it in years, but it's starting to seem appealing again.
MIRC is old skool
DC++ is new gen XDCC
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jk1joel
12-11-2012 at 12:52 PM.
12-11-2012 at 12:52 PM.
Quote from 420 :
I don't even know what that is. Confused I was referring to the privately owned FTP servers from which 99.9% of all of this stuff originates from and to which the public has no access to. If these were the ONLY place you could find this stuff, it wouldn't be an RIAA priority to see it all shutdown.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fastlink

That was 2004.
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PaintTheSkyGrey
12-11-2012 at 12:56 PM.
12-11-2012 at 12:56 PM.
Quote from 420 :
I'd like to see an end to all torrents and newsgroups as they draw unwanted attention on the real scene.
Wouldn't it make more sense to keep usenet and p2p and torrents because they take up so much of the MPAA and RIAA's time that they don't have the resources to pursue stuff like FTP and IRC servers?
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dealsalways
12-11-2012 at 03:17 PM.
12-11-2012 at 03:17 PM.
How secure/snoop free is say

Navi-x/1channel/icefilms

compared to
1) usenet

2) torrents

I have an idea, but want to see others' analysis of it.
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Demosthenes9
12-11-2012 at 07:46 PM.
12-11-2012 at 07:46 PM.
Quote from jk1joel :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fastlink

That was 2004.

Go back further to Operation Buccaneer in 2001.

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


I cried that day. The servers at RIT were stupidly nice Smilie
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dzap
12-11-2012 at 08:19 PM.
12-11-2012 at 08:19 PM.
Quote from Demosthenes9 :
Go back further to Operation Buccaneer in 2001.

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


I cried that day. The servers at RIT were stupidly nice Smilie
Damn US govt..always trying to ruin everything. However, I still would rather have our govt. police the Internet than all the other totalitarian dictatorships in the rest of the world wanting to have more absolute control over their people.
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BDeck
12-11-2012 at 08:20 PM.
12-11-2012 at 08:20 PM.
laugh out loud we used WASTE at my college (maybe they still use it? Dontknow). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WASTE 128bit encryption, it's pretty nice!
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dzap
12-11-2012 at 08:24 PM.
12-11-2012 at 08:24 PM.
Quote from BDeck :
laugh out loud we used WASTE at my college (maybe they still use it? Dontknow). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WASTE 128bit encryption, it's pretty nice!
Quote :
By default, WASTE listens to incoming connections on port 1337
HA! Roll
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BDeck
12-11-2012 at 08:26 PM.
12-11-2012 at 08:26 PM.
Quote from dzap :
HA! Roll
Oh yeahhhhh :koolaid man:
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Demosthenes9
12-11-2012 at 08:32 PM.
12-11-2012 at 08:32 PM.
Damn, I must have been asleep or drunk that year Smilie
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lifexpert
12-11-2012 at 08:59 PM.
12-11-2012 at 08:59 PM.
anyone knows a nzb index IRC channel?
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lifexpert
12-11-2012 at 09:28 PM.
12-11-2012 at 09:28 PM.
Paypal Bans Usenet Providers Over Piracy Concerns

Wow, this shit is getting real.
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thizsukz
12-11-2012 at 09:42 PM.
12-11-2012 at 09:42 PM.
nzbsrus uses bitcoin now
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