send a PM if you want one

12/24/2009 1:22:10 PM

I also have a few invites and their holiday sale is going on so you can get 52 weeks of premium service for half off.

12/24/2009 9:12:02 PM

stop wasting your money

12/24/2009 9:20:17 PM

on what?

12/24/2009 10:23:09 PM

lol it is like 15 bucks a year for a damn good usenet index.

12/24/2009 10:53:56 PM

I sent a pm but got no reply.

12/24/2009 11:19:55 PM

yeah me too. maybe he hasnt checked his PMs yet

12/25/2009 12:35:47 AM

I know there's threads on this, but fuck it.
Straight up, is newzbin one of the good ones? If so, I'll take an invite

12/25/2009 2:39:14 AM

PM your email address to one of us if you want an invite. Yes, newzbin is one of the best.

12/25/2009 11:57:54 AM

i think it's unnecessary if you have IRC or even an RSS feed reader, which most of you probably do.

12/25/2009 11:59:13 AM

I've become accustomed to the service and have no problem paying for it.

12/25/2009 4:56:47 PM

i just sent an invite to anyone that sent their email addresses

12/25/2009 5:19:25 PM

The thing that turns me away from newsgroups (and downloading in general) is the shear number of viruses and trojans hidden in a lot of the files. Nearly every damn comment on newzbin is about a file being infected with a virus.

12/26/2009 11:22:12 AM

Most of those are probably false positives for a keygen or crack. If you use them to get the scene releases for movies/music/television it's practically a non issue. It's just the applications and suspicious other files that you have to look out for.

12/26/2009 11:47:02 AM

^is correct. most of them aren't really "viruses" in the sense that they'll actually do anything to hurt your computer..but they're picked up and deleted anyways just bc of what they are. it's kind of bs imo but whateverrr

12/26/2009 12:28:13 PM

there are still a lot of fuckers who take scene releases and repack them with trojans/loggers/passwords that you have to sign up on various sites to retrieve/etc. and you never know which ones are which because they keep the file names the same. you need to get only stuff uploaded by people from a trustworthy IRC channel, imo.

12/26/2009 1:09:50 PM

^In 4 years and after countless terabytes of data, I have never once had that happen to me.

Then again, I don't often use raw binary searches.

[Edited on December 26, 2009 at 1:47 PM. Reason : .]

12/26/2009 1:45:07 PM

^^I download about 300 gigs a month and have been using the newsgroups for ~8 years and I've never once had any issue with viruses, keyloggers, anything of the sort. I download about 98% media and only 2% applications and with newzbin it's really easy to find the application you need, look at the comments and see if it's a good download or not.

Don't send me anymore PMs for invites. I just ran out of the 10 I had. If I get some more I'll let you guys know.

12/26/2009 5:34:35 PM

I have a few left.

Does everyone know that it's a pay service and not some super secret torrent site? I'd rather not waste them.

[Edited on December 26, 2009 at 5:36 PM. Reason : ]

12/26/2009 5:35:42 PM

I hope so, I would like to think everyone I invited knew what it was.

12/26/2009 5:41:08 PM

well worth the money though....after using it for a day it has really impressed me. Cant imagine going back to the old search methods

12/26/2009 6:35:10 PM

lol what did you people use before that makes you think this service is so much better?

someone told me they created the concept of the NZB file but in my opinion, they're like AOL was to the internet after i got my cable modem

12/26/2009 8:50:34 PM

HUUUUR IRC

12/26/2009 10:54:34 PM

Quote :

"NZB is an XML-based file format for retrieving posts from NNTP (Usenet) servers. The format was conceived by the developers of the Newzbin.com Usenet Index."

Source


NZB Specifications

newzleech.com and binsearch.info work alright if you know exactly what you are looking for. Newzbin is the only site I know of that offers browsing by newsgroup or category (or make your own grouplist). Newzbin's information is also given in a much more coherent and cohesive format.

12/26/2009 11:16:21 PM

Before usenet I had ftp dumps and traded on a few bullshit topsites.

12/27/2009 11:53:19 AM

nzbmatrix is also very similar to newzbin

12/27/2009 2:58:11 PM

jesus these things are fast

i've maxed out every connection i've tried using them from

[Edited on December 28, 2009 at 7:15 PM. Reason : and damn i forgot how sharp blueray's are..jesus]

12/28/2009 7:14:11 PM

k

downloading an entire 720p movie then the last file having one piece that it can't find is really getting annoying. i've had it happen 3 times now

anyway to check this before i start dl'ing or something??

1/9/2010 11:39:22 AM

http://www.quickpar.org.uk/

1/9/2010 12:51:26 PM

well shit, that program worked!

how does it work?

1/9/2010 2:14:27 PM

http://tinyurl.com/ycbrmef

1/9/2010 4:49:56 PM

thank you for that insight, sir

1/9/2010 5:39:38 PM

quickpar ftw. I wish Grabit's auto repair/auto extract worked as well as newsleecher's.

1/9/2010 6:29:28 PM

alt.binz ftw

You can even link it to your Newzbin account and search through there.

1/9/2010 7:32:24 PM

Quote :

"Newsflash for all those ppl that have started various "cracked" versions of Alt.Binz floating on the usenet: They are ALL trojan infected. All firefox, IE, IM, steam passwords are collected and uploaded to attackers site. "

lol

1/9/2010 7:55:17 PM

^^pretty sweet freeware, thanks. Did you mean link it to Newsleecher's supersearch though? I can't find where to enter my Newzbin credentials.

1/9/2010 8:37:09 PM

Quote :

"However we not that bright so we left our cpanel login data in our leet script so our server got pwned with all logins and some zerosec stuff. "

1/9/2010 8:37:15 PM