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Think of it like Pirate Bay, but for newsgroups. Newsgroups are massive with some providers archiving binary groups for up to 4 years (and growing). Sites lik
by tallanvor 14y ago
Think of it like Pirate Bay, but for newsgroups. Newsgroups are massive with some providers archiving binary groups for up to 4 years (and growing). Sites like NZBMatrix index the content and provide nzb files which tell your client what to download so that you don't have to constantly download the headers for a bunch of sites and search through them. Sites like NZBMatrix were also somewhat curated to help keep passworded files out of the results.
- tibbon 14y agoAnd combined with a private usenet server, it was non-P2P and relatively secure file downloading at exceedingly high speeds.
- aes256 14y agoThe usenet servers live on, and all the files (minus a small percentage that are the subject of takedown requests) are still there. NZBMatrix was just one of dozens of indexing sites.