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Re: [Newsgroups] 20th Century Fox & Others v Newzbin This can be bad for Usenet! NZBs are beneficial to Usenet. This case is just like "Piratebay" all over again. |
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 imtim83Premium
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Kenner, LA | said by crese24:This can be bad for Usenet! NZBs are beneficial to Usenet. This case is just like "Piratebay" all over again. Who cares we can live without nzbs |
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 RyanPremium
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Quincy, MA | reply to crese24
said by crese24:This can be bad for Usenet! NZBs are beneficial to Usenet. This case is just like "Piratebay" all over again. Ahhhh nzb's are great and all, but I could manage perfectly fine without them.. |
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| perfectly fine? unabated ease of access?
cmon, you're not giving nzb's any credit at all. |
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imtim83Premium
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Kenner, LA
1 edit | said by jimboe:perfectly fine? unabated ease of access? cmon, you're not giving nzb's any credit at all. I use to refuse to try nzbs but one day decided to see what the fuss is about. Yeah they are nice but you still need to not use nzbs sometimes. Depending on how quick you want something. It can take a while for stuff to be indexed as a nzb. Not everything but it does happen. Like 70 to 200 days + |
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| I know but the point was:
Do you really want to go back to the days of downing headers, translating obfuscated postnames.
I come from the days when there was "nothing" on usenet, and then posts had to be uuencoded/decoded.
Big pain in the ass.. I sure don't want to have to go back to that.
Sheesh, that'd be like going back to the horse and buggy practically.
Could I/we do it? Sure.
Do we want to? Fck no!
I'm sure you feel the same. |
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 chucky5150Divers do it Deeper
join:2001-11-03
New Iberia, LA | Ohh downloading 400+ days of headers would be soooooo much fun.
Nah. I like my NZB files. |
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| reply to Ryan
It seems most here forgot or never experienced the days of searching for posting in the groups and manually UUencoding files in a txt editor. |
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| I remember using Trumpet Winsock and Forte Agent back in the day. |
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said by margaf77:It seems most here forgot or never experienced the days of searching for posting in the groups and manually UUencoding files in a txt editor. Maybe not forgotten, but to be honest, in my opinion those methods are not a feasible method anymore for many users and the groups they use. There is simply to much traffic to go through manually for what may or may not interest you. You would almost have to update and sort every hour to keep up.
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| reply to JohnQPublic
God and I thought *I* was old.  |
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| reply to swintec
The manual uuencoding is of course not feasible but a simple search can get you what you need without the use of newzbin and other indexing sites. |
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| said by margaf77:but a simple search can get you what you need without the use of newzbin and other indexing sites. Simple search of what? Raw header data in your newsreader? Have you tried managing the popular groups headers in a newsreader? Just the thought makes my head and eyes hurt! 
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| i didnt say it would be fun :P |
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RyanPremium
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Quincy, MA | reply to swintec
said by swintec:said by margaf77:but a simple search can get you what you need without the use of newzbin and other indexing sites. Simple search of what? Raw header data in your newsreader? Have you tried managing the popular groups headers in a newsreader? Just the thought makes my head and eyes hurt! I have to say though, newsbin pro does it really well and is pretty quick at it also. Pretty much instant searches which is nice. Only reason I dont do it that way is just a way to save space, but if it came down to it I dont think I would mind that much going back to downloading headers. |
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| said by Ryan:said by swintec:said by margaf77:but a simple search can get you what you need without the use of newzbin and other indexing sites. Simple search of what? Raw header data in your newsreader? Have you tried managing the popular groups headers in a newsreader? Just the thought makes my head and eyes hurt! I have to say though, newsbin pro does it really well and is pretty quick at it also. The new(er) 64 bit version right?
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RyanPremium
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Quincy, MA | said by swintec:The new(er) 64 bit version right? Yup. I tried it not too long ago because I wanted to test out Astraweb's header compression which newsbin pro also supports. Its really pretty fast granted I do have a quad core. |
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vasta
join:2003-04-07
Orlando, FL | I can suddenly download from the site now, I wasn't able to before, Also noticed how in Movies the last time something was posted was 6 days ago, 9 for TV...what is that? and why does it say Your account has 24 hours of Premium Credit left. Click here to buy some more.
at the top? |
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| Probably just a nag for being allowed on the site for free. Mine's been stuck at 409 days for quite a while now. I think they are still accepting top offs so that might be why. I'm thinking of topping mine off some more just to donate a few bucks to them. Right now they are the tip of the spear against MPA and RIA. |
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kudos:4 | reply to vasta
No reports are being created for Movies and TV shows, since that was the basis of the lawsuit. A few got through a bit ago, but they've stopped again. |
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