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Wow, Nzbmatrix is closed forever.
December 9, 2012 at
06:54 AM
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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...
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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(Kickasstorrents)
Two major indexers went down. And guess what? I'm seeing longer retention of files as a result. Something I've been looking for for the past few weeks was constantly getting taken down because of DMCA requests, almost automatically. Now that there isn't a convenient "Recently added" list on two of the most high profile sites, things are sticking around longer.
Usenet just got better.
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Because the only way out of this situation with DMCA takedowns is to go deeper under.
Newznab [newznab.com] is a usenet indexing application.
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there are several free indexers still alive and running fine, and i'm guessing they will continue to do so since nobody's getting rich off them (probably) and there's no formal organization/user list to act as a target. they might not offer all the features of nzbmatrix/newzbin, but they do the job just fine, and as was mentioned earlier, it might actually make things better for users by making it slightly harder for content rights holders to identify offending content.
Because the only way out of this situation with DMCA takedowns is to go deeper under.
Newznab [newznab.com] is a usenet indexing application.
there are several free indexers still alive and running fine, and i'm guessing they will continue to do so since nobody's getting rich off them (probably) and there's no formal organization/user list to act as a target. they might not offer all the features of nzbmatrix/newzbin, but they do the job just fine, and as was mentioned earlier, it might actually make things better for users by making it slightly harder for content rights holders to identify offending content.
Might wanna let waffles, what.cd, and a few others know. This is very similar to what I said earlier in the thread. Not as public != down.
Might wanna let waffles, what.cd, and a few others know. This is very similar to what I said earlier in the thread. Not as public != down.
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