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Anyone here download NZBs?
Seems like a s**t has hit the fan over the past few of months!
I relied on NZB matrix quite a lot but now that's gone and a load of almost identical/rubbish sites have sprang up.
Does anyone have any recommendations ?
I'm a member of NZBsRUs which is half decent but I'm still on the hunt.
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A lot of attention has turned away from torrents over the last year they are still a huge focus and the main public torrent trackers are easy pickings for the various agencies or groups (RIAA/MPAA/BPI, etc.), but NZB sites have really come under fire both with direct lawsuits and masses of DMCA take-down requests. Following Newsbin2 being blocked in the UK and shutting down shortly after a large number of other sites have followed suit. I guess the owners thought they were more secure as newsgroups had typically been ignored by copyright holders, but now as you say, shit has hit the fan for a number of them and others are jumping ship too.
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You don't hear about that many torrent sites being taken down, several have been blocked but if anything that has increased their popularity.
I wonder why those sites remain open but the news groups close down?
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Bang on the money Scott. This is the way its going only set to get worse. I've been using private trackers. And irc for the last 10+ years
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I meant a steady stream of torrent sites, NZB indexing sites have only been going down for the last year or so.