Censorship on usenet/indexing sites?

[spliff99]

Hello,

I've been reading the legal news posts on newzbins homepage over the last few months with much trepidation.

It seems that best case we can expect newzbin to be heavily filtered in the coming months...

Just a few weeks ago as a matter of fact I was able to download a retail dvd rip of Inglorious Basterds, now searching newzbin for it returns only a 200 day old CAM, has the filtering begun already?

NZBs.org and NZBMatrix don't have good copies of it either bad cams or hardcoded dutch subs are all I can find!

Is content now effectively being censored from usenet? (I wish I still had the old nzb file to see if it still existed on my newsserver)

Or have I missed something really obvious and overreacted?

Thanks for any thoughts...

[inpheaux]

Blame Tarantino's spelling.

Inglourious Basterds.

[spliff99]

*Slaps self in face*

Wow, thanks.

On a related note, does anyone here have recomendations for software that can download and search headers manually - removing dependance on sites like newzbin?

[inpheaux]

*Slaps self in face*

Wow, thanks.

On a related note, does anyone here have recomendations for software that can download and search headers manually - removing dependance on sites like newzbin?

No, they all suck. Dealing with headers has become an intractable problem thanks to the volume of content being posted to usenet and the amount of retention hosts offer these days. By the time you finish downloading the headers for a high-traffic group you'll have another several hours worth of new headers to download. You'll never get to the point of actually DOWNLOADING something because you'll be doing nothing but downloading headers all the time. Plus, many apps that handle manual header-based downloading were never designed to deal with this much header data, so they crap out if you try to search through a large group.

Just don't worry about newzbin. If newzbin goes down something else will pop up.