Why do people like Newzbin so much?
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Newzbin is great for n00bs if you don't know how to find files and for browsing. Everything is nicely categorised and there are lots of filters and search options. The big downside is a lot of good stuff gets missed plus you have to wait hours for reports to be confirmed by Editor Admins. With indexing sites you get updates usually under 15 mins and access to nzbs right away. If you stick solely to human edited sites you may get a bad impression of usenet as they only let you search a fraction of it.
So an idea is start off with a human edited site like newzbin, nzbmatrix, merlins-portal then go on to automated indexing sites like binsearch, newzleech once you know what you're doing.
So an idea is start off with a human edited site like newzbin, nzbmatrix, merlins-portal then go on to automated indexing sites like binsearch, newzleech once you know what you're doing.
A few years ago, I would have said OK.
Now there are great binaries search engines like newzleech that eliminate the need for a service like Newzbin. There certainly is no longer any justification in paying for them if your reasoning is that "it's the best". They don't have a single file that I can't get without their service. I can get files faster without it as a matter of fact.
Why do you say it's the best?
As far as I can tell, nothing has changed over there and there are no new features to get in a huff about. If it's still simply just an indexing site, that is.
Billet -Doux [Harps]
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The second thought always follows the first. An opinion on something before even trying it. :dabs:
Usenet is not for everyone. Some people, even after experimenting with it find that they would rather download content for free, but those are few and far between.
Usenet was around way before private BT trackers. It predates them by some twenty years and releases of apps, TV programs, and the latest films traditionally go to Usenet first. It's always been that way. Usenet and its numerous groups, has many, many more uploaders than any private torrent site.
Now I'm not saying that some BT trackers don't have uploaders that cap TV shows or crack programs and release them exclusively to the site but Usenet is the place for getting releases first. You have to know the right groups, of course, but once you've got your favorite groups entrenched in your newsreader of choice, you'll find everything you need and will be able to download it sooner and faster than if you relied on your private tracker.
There really is no comparison.
The existence of so many users shilling out much more cash than a news server would cost, for seedboxes is just plain foolish and a waste of money.
Anyhow, Newzbin is an indexing site, which a few years ago was a nice place (and still is), but now there are several great indexing sites and great search engines to boot, but people are still forking over money for Newzbin. I was just wondering if they had added some new features that I didn't know about and didn't have access to seeing as I don't pay.
piglet28266
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i am not so lucky 
mackiegirl12
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Searching for... what? By filename? Certainly, if you already know the filename, then any search engine will retrieve it for you.
But what if the filename doesn't match what you think? Say, looking for Season 1 Disc 5 of some tv program dvd. Now, if the thing was posted as 'xxxxS1D5' or something like that, pretty darn simple. But what if the poster called it 'yyyyydiscxseasonk' then you're pretty much hosed. The Newzbin editor *hopefully* will have sucked it down, figured out what it was, and indexed it properly as 'Silly TV program, season 1, disc 5'.
That's what makes all the difference. Not every poster posts the 'proper' (whatever that is) title, in fact, a great number of them are pretty darned obtuse.
So, unless one wants to spend the time d/l'ing tons of junk trying to find out what the *heck* it is (I sure used to), it's a good resource. In fact, since they tightend up things with v3 and started requiring the editors to identify the video format of the listed files, one can really do some excellent searches slicing and dicing the listings.
I note a couple others echoed what I just said, and others kinda blew it off. But there is no 'standard' naming convention, far from it. And folks don't post in the most obvious of newsgroups for the material they are uploading.
It's a crapshoot. Newsbin narrows the odds down, sometimes a bit, sometimes a lot. They do miss a lot, and the other indexing sites miss the same (if not more) amount. That's why I d/l headers on a few 'select' newsgroups I've found to have a high incidence of (unindexed)'good stuff' to make it worthwhile.
Next time try to use your brain when reading something. I know that you are right in your statement. But because I don't really know anything about usenet (hence: 'never used usenet') I was under the false impression usenet and Newzbin were alike (the same).
I turns out they aren't and I now know the difference between the 2. I'm even trying out usenet as we speak.
It looks promising indeed :yup:
admiralsfrk30
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I do know what usenet is. I know it has been around much longer and I know a lot of things I look for in my native language is never or hardly released on any private BT-tracker, but is commonly released on usenet.
I have never payed a dime for a seedbox, and I would never do so. I have the misfortune my ISP has very shitty newsgroup-servers and I can't use it. Free servers exist but suck and as I said I believe I pay more than enough /month to my ISP (about
I have found stuff there that I didn't even know ever existed on some really strange named groups ... they have stuff there that you cant find anywhere else...:yup:
like what?:blink:
Mars Turrez
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I don't pay anything either, I'm a Usenet cheapskate:
Browse Newzbin on a free account to see what's available, get the free NZB elsewhere.
I use SABnzbd, a free downloader program.
Then download at my linespeed from my ISP's less than perfect news server, and there are a few free servers that fill in the missing pieces automatically, I don't notice this happening. Would my ISP care about excessive bandwidth use? I don't see how, it's in-network bandwidth from their own news server and I'd be a fool not to be resourceful and take advantage of files that are technically hosted by my own ISP, on their network.
Browse Newzbin on a free account to see what's available, get the free NZB elsewhere.
I use SABnzbd, a free downloader program.
Then download at my linespeed from my ISP's less than perfect news server, and there are a few free servers that fill in the missing pieces automatically, I don't notice this happening. Would my ISP care about excessive bandwidth use? I don't see how, it's in-network bandwidth from their own news server and I'd be a fool not to be resourceful and take advantage of files that are technically hosted by my own ISP, on their network.
Aphrodite_Mermaid
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I used it before there was the supersearch feature in NewsLeecher
That's just silly. If it's on Usenet, search engines will have it. :mellow:
Blue Fashion
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Documentaries ... can't find them on other sites except for NZBMatrix.com
The problem with that is that some posters change the name of the files like a.k.j.y.b.b. ecc... unless you know the name of the movie or file you can't always find it buy dewing a search...!
Sometimes they post in a group that I have never herd of before...
of course I am talking about hard to find stuff here...
Simon Woroniecki
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Well, actually it has better and more search options than the free sites and has no advertisements. You said a lot of good stuff gets missed, well, yeah some good stuff is missed but that's in the reports. There is still a search option named Usenet where it searches a raw Usenet index, like other free sites, and its also updated every 15 minutes or so.. the reports are just an added benefit to make it easier. Also, you only have to wait for your reports to be verified when you first start reporting, after a while you don't. In my opinion, NewzBin is like the GigaNews of indexing sites.
So an idea is to get your information straight before you make a post like that.
Michael Jackson Lover
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It's just another tool in the toolkit; I always buy a year at a time, during the holidays at the end of the year, at half price. So the total cost is pretty minimal.
A lot of it has to do with how much aggravation one is willing to tolerate. Kinda like dealing with news-servers other than Giganews, or paying the 'man' (Giganews) and being done with it. For years, I dealt with other providers (including ISP's) and spent time chasing fills and files all over the place; still have pieces of block accounts at various places that I'll probably never use, now that I 'bit the bullet' and pay Giganews.
It's about the same as the argument between torrents and newsgroups. Yep, most of the content anyones looking for is on the torrents. But after you've wasted your time digging for what you're looking for, had multiple attempts aborted due to the prime source you're d/l'ing from go off line, patching parts together, and MAYBE ending up with what you're chasing, you find that you could have gotten the same thing (or probably even better) simply by searching Usenet.
It comes down to how much, again, aggravation, one is willing to tolerate. I've been on Usenet for just about 15 years, tried torrents in the early days, and came back to Usenet. Simply, low aggravation.
That and Netflix. But heck, I still d/l headers, so that's how 'old school' I am, and I get lots of things that newzbin and all the indexing sites miss, period. So there's lots of stuff out there to be mined...
Now you're just pulling my leg. I certainly hope you don't believe that. :lol:
Those are abbreviations. The name will be in the file names and can be found will search engines.
The problem with that is that some posters change the name of the files like a.k.j.y.b.b. ecc... unless you know the name of the movie or file you can't always find it buy dewing a search...!
Sometimes they post in a group that I have never herd of before...
of course I am talking about hard to find stuff here...
Those are abbreviations. The name will be in the file names and can be found will search engines.