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Newzbin (paid usenet search engine) closes due to legal action
- Hates_ 16y agoVery sad day indeed. One of the few online services I was more then happy to pay for.
- mistermann 16y agonzbmatrix is excellent.
- emehrkay 16y agoFuck. I love usnet, I hope this isn't the start of a trend
- ellisd 16y agothe first rule of usenet... don't talk about usenet
- ebtalley 16y agothe second rule of usenet... don't talk about usenet. Thats what killed the big H...
- aiurtourist 16y agoThe Big Red H? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotline_Communications http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotline_Communications
- baskinghobo 16y agoThis is stupid. People don't use Usenet because it's too hard to use and costs money, not because people don't talk about it.
- cmars232 16y agoNah, usnet is overrated, themnet is where it's at!
- Batsu 16y agoSince details seem very lacking between the link and the post in the link, here's a short summary Newzbin via Wikiepdia: "One of the main technologies produced is an XML-based file format called NZB files, which contain a list of messageIDs that are related to specific postings on Usenet. Through the use of these files, Usenet clients are able to directly download material from Usenet without having to pre-fetch the headers for the target group. Thus, the main benefit of the direct link is improving the efficiency of Usenet binaries. It is technologies such as these that are increasing the popularity of Usenet for file sharing." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewzBin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewzBin It seems their crime is indexing binaries. This does nothing to stop file sharing through Usenet, just ever so slightly impedes access.
- cookiecaper 16y agoI don't know how they get away with this. Google links almost exclusively to copyrighted content, but they're not shut down. Why is Google allowed to exist and other indexes aren't?
- jsz0 16y agoA few big differences. Newzbin was charging for access to this catalog of NZB files that overwhelmingly pointed to copyrighted material. Newzbin is located in the UK under the jurisdiction of different copyright enforcement laws. My understanding is, in the UK, the standard is simply knowingly profiting from copyright infringement. Newzbin was making over £1 Million/year. Apparently they also failed to act on take down requests. Seems like a pretty clear cut case to me. It appears the operators of the site did basically nothing to protect themselves and mounted a very weak defense when they were caught.
- devicenull 16y agoGoogle has enough money to pay for lawyers.
- benologist 16y agoGoogle linking to illegally distributed material is incidental - the only similarity is that TPB/etc linking to legally distributable material is also incidental.
- zenocon 16y agohttp://newzleech.com http://newzleech.com - I've always used newzleech. They were also shut down for a while but they are back now.