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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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lifexpert
12-15-2012 at 12:41 PM.
12-15-2012 at 12:41 PM.
Quote from serp07 :
It would be nice to have an indexer built just for the SD community.
Because the only way out of this situation with DMCA takedowns is to go deeper under.

Newznab [newznab.com] is a usenet indexing application.
Second this.
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chi
12-15-2012 at 06:44 PM.
12-15-2012 at 06:44 PM.
Usenet via nzbmatrix was my sanctuary after being caught by my ISP downloading torrents.

Hope I don't have to go back to torrents, going to try this binsearch.info and see if it's any good. Sadwalk
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LordOfChaos
12-20-2012 at 01:02 PM.
12-20-2012 at 01:02 PM.
Quote from dagadu :
Nzbgrabit is open for registration right now, but i need an invitation. Is there anyone willing to invite me? Please PM. TIA
Is this a decent site? If so I would like an invite too please!
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jephtastic
12-20-2012 at 02:16 PM.
12-20-2012 at 02:16 PM.
Quote from LordOfChaos :
Is this a decent site? If so I would like an invite too please!
I'd like an invite too if someone here has one. Just found out right now that nzbmatrix is down, and I bought a membership there too x.x
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RumbleTheBison
12-20-2012 at 02:27 PM.
12-20-2012 at 02:27 PM.
I can't offer any trades.....but yea....anyone have an invite they wanna throw my way?

Maybe a Chi-sox fan?!?!?
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hoog23
12-21-2012 at 06:52 PM.
12-21-2012 at 06:52 PM.
They just cancelled my Astraweb now.
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dzap
12-21-2012 at 07:17 PM.
12-21-2012 at 07:17 PM.
Quote from hoog23 :
They just cancelled my Astraweb now.
What? Why? Does Astraweb keep logs? My usenet provider doesn't keep logs at all.
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lifexpert
12-21-2012 at 07:27 PM.
12-21-2012 at 07:27 PM.
Quote from hoog23 :
They just cancelled my Astraweb now.
What the fark have you done? Were you the one who sold nzbmatrix out?
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absolute42
12-21-2012 at 08:04 PM.
12-21-2012 at 08:04 PM.
in for solutions
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dzap
12-21-2012 at 08:05 PM.
12-21-2012 at 08:05 PM.
Quote from absolute42 :
in for solutions
Buy all your media legally. Problem solved. LMAO
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sprintuser
12-21-2012 at 09:11 PM.
12-21-2012 at 09:11 PM.
The next best index after nzbmatrix is www.nzbsrus.com. The problem is that you need to pay for a $12 a year subscription. If anyone purchases it, I'll chip in so we can share an account. Just PM me!
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marg_fan
12-21-2012 at 10:04 PM.
12-21-2012 at 10:04 PM.
Quote from hoog23 :
They just cancelled my Astraweb now.
Astraweb changed payment processors. You should have received an email letting you know how to reactivate your account. I'm taking the opportunity to switch from unlimited to a block plan.
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we-was
12-22-2012 at 12:09 AM.
12-22-2012 at 12:09 AM.
Quote from sprintuser :
The next best index after nzbmatrix is www.nzbsrus.com. The problem is that you need to pay for a $12 a year subscription. If anyone purchases it, I'll chip in so we can share an account. Just PM me!
Can someone pm an invite for nzbrus.com? Would really, really be grateful if someone could help out. Thanks.
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hoog23
12-22-2012 at 05:57 AM.
12-22-2012 at 05:57 AM.
Ya unlimited does not make too much sense. I'm just worried I will be downloading a lot more crap with missing pars.
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sprintuser
12-22-2012 at 12:52 PM.
12-22-2012 at 12:52 PM.
Quote from we-was :
Can someone pm an invite for nzbrus.com? Would really, really be grateful if someone could help out. Thanks.

You can actually just sign up here: http://nzbsrus.com/signup.php. No invite required.
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