Newzbin gossip May 18, 2010
Posted by deepsharer in usenet.trackback
Things are moving fast at everyones favourite Usenet indexer Newzbin. A Newzbin Editor let slip some interesting gossip to me on IRC. Apparently Newzbin has been put into administration yesterday because it couldn’t pay its debts. Word is that they owe the MPA £230,000 just in interim costs, and that’s without a full costs ruling or a decision on damages. Apparently they also owe a software development house over £500k. They also stopped taking payments a few weeks back. Fucking ouch.
I predict Newzbin is toast.
Does it mean the end of the service for users? Maybe not. While I can’t see how Newzbin can dig themselves out of this hole or carry on, there have been odd developments. Users have been pressing Newzbin to Opensource the site code but they’ve refused. However the rumour is that someone hacked their servers and grabbed the code and several databases. I PM’d a Newzbin guy and he denied knowing anything about this but the rumours are strong. Added to which Newzbin have been hacked before: about 5 years ago a database of their Paypal transactions ended up on Usenet! (Oh the irony) And another Usenet indexer also turned up running, ahem, similar looking code.
If that is right I’m guessing a clone site will spring up soon, or maybe several.
Update:
Wow. Slightly freaked that Newzbin has both closed AND linked to this blogpost to give an explanation. Just to say, I am nothing to do with Newzbin but I am (OK, was, it would seem) an editor and I knew the original guys fairly well via IRC.
I’ll see if I can get answers to questions asked below and post the replies in new blogposts.
As someone in comments said, there is a newzbin users group on irc.freenode.net #newzbin
Update 2 – 19th May
New story: privacy, source code refunds.
Update 3 – 19th May
The original site owners have confirmed that, based on source code fragments examined by them, and supplied by a third party, the site source code does appear to have been stolen and is in the hands of unknown parties. An Attack of the Clones imminent?
update 4 – 28th May
Mr White – code ‘thief’ interview
update 4 – 1 June
Newzbin is back
Revoltingfilesharers Blog 
rediculous!!! F U C K I N G stupid!!! :@:@
To the guys at newzbin:
“So long and thanks for the fish.”
PS: Let the Open Source folk have yer code lads.
Oh, and FUCK the MPAA parasites.
Free the code so 100’s of 1000’s of newzbin sites can be made 😉
This is terrible news as Newzbin changed my life for the better!
Okay, the alternatives now:
1. Where do we go for alternative newzbin sites; can any of you guys recommend us one which packed the same punch as newzbin?
2. Or, do I start making regular trips to my local HMV store and pay full-price for multi media products?
nzbmatrix
nzbmatrix is a very poor mans newzbin, but it does the job( without the superb community most are newbs)
U are rite. matrix FOR NOW. The mpaa has kicked a sleeping giant.. They wont have enough money or lawyers to stop what is about to happen with file sharing. CAN YOU SAY THE CODE IS OUT
Merlin’s Portal.net
This is a sad sad day indeed, How is it that the MPAA can get away with this ? All newzbin did was to show you where the files was to download, im sorry but i can use google to do that, just takes me a little longer, google any film title and it will come up with a torrent for it, wich we all know, is it that the MPAA only take on the ppl that do not have the financial muscle to defend themselves. What the MPAA and other film company’s have to understand is, slash your profit’s dont make as much give it to the people cheaper and you’ll make more. Good luck to the newzbin lad’s hope it all work’s out for you, as for the 300 day’s worth of credit i had left hope you got your hand’s on it befor the administraters do !!!!!!!! thank’s for evrything.
They can get away with it because the unavoidable fact is that Newzbin was very clearly, deliberately and precisely indexing copyrighted material for download and charging for that service. It served no other purpose at all, other than to provide an easy means for you and I to search for and download copyrighted material without paying the owner of the work. But then I knew all that when I downloaded Adobe Master Collection CS3 with a keygen.
The guys that ran the show didn’t have a leg to stand on in court, and frankly their defense was non-existant. Why? Because they were running an operation that’s sole purpose was to provide the means for you and I to commit digital theft. Fact. Period. You know it. I know it. They knew it. You think you could convince a judge it wasn’t? Take him the list of non-copyright files you downloaded in the whole duration of your membership. Might be bigger than mine. Probably about the same.
That all came out in the court judgement, which I assume you read?
Newzbin were crooks like us and they got banged to rights. It’s a fair cop.
The MPAA do take on companies like Google, in fact their greed isn’t limiting them to targetting sites like Newzbin and Pirate Bay. Neither are they the only publisher out there trying to stop you getting your shit for free(ish).
Check out http://www.chillingeffects.org/notice.cgi for a list of who’s hitting Google with demands to remove links from their search result. Only their compliance with these notices exempts them from legal action.
What next shut down the whole internet?
You sound like acknowledgeable person but the problem is not Newzbin or peer to peer it’s the foundation of the net, free information flow.
Usenet ran since the start of the net & the source of all communications that root the sharing of information inc. software
don’t be absurd. if i show you a place that has a shiny diamond that belongs to someone else, then tell you that your hands are able to grasp that diamond and take it for yourself, and you go take it, how the fu*k does that make me the criminal. retard. have a think before you write this sh!t.
To A Friend:
BluRay rips of Terminator Salvation aren’t really classed as ‘information’.
To Jamie A:
Perhaps it is you who should think a little before passing on the Torch Of Retardicus?
To use your own analogy, so you’ll understand, they were in fact showing you lots of shiny diamonds that they knew you might like to steal. They knew you’d like to steal them because that’s what their business was set up to assist with, diamond theft specialists if you will, and you joined up and paid a fee to be able to search for and steal the shiniest diamonds available because you are a diamond thief (for the purposes of this explanation).
They were then casing the joint for you (the joint being usenet ), putting the little diamonds into little easy to carry diamond shaped swag bags that were easier for you to carry on your merry way.
This does in fact make them a party to the crime, by entering what is known as ‘common design’. This was made quite clear by a judge in a court of law, after having heard all of the evidence available. Even the guys who ran the site could offer no defense to the contrary in court.
So really, if you were actually helping me to steal said diamond in some way in your wonderful story, you may be guilty of a crime. You should check that out with a legal professional before you show any diamonds to strangers..
However, I suspect if you actually just showed me a diamond and said I could nick it quite easily, you’d be safe enough. Too bad your rather poor analogy doesn’t fit the case of Newzbin.
http://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/markup.cgi?doc=/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2010/608.html&query=newzbin&method=boolean#disp1
You’ll want to go to 111 and 112 respectively for the judge’s decision.
Yea, the whole thing is crazy. Questions: What are the courts and mpaa going to do now that the code is out? Do you think they have enough combined staff and resource to go after all of the sites, I MEAN ALL OF THE NEW SITES THAT WILL PROSPER FROM THE RESULTS OF THIS GREED? Yes, thier greed created a monster that will devour their appetite and ambition for this fight. The HUNTER HAS BEEN HUNTED!
To Mark Maword! There are some of us who used this service for legal perposes.Also,many of us legally bought games and programs ,because we had the chance to try them out to see if it was what we wanted.Im being open minded about both sides of this topic on newzbin.There is a catch to all this copie right stuff.Most people are not aware of some things about copie rights.The MPA could also be taken to court.I wouldnt lol about this either.Some of us online gamers made a discovery about most copie rights.There is a major mistake being made by almost all companies that sell programs,games and even movies.Heres a hint to everyone…..where are most copie rights places at?Im hopeing some of you will catch on!And what happens if you try to return the movie,game or programs because you didnt like it,and was not able to read the user agreement? Are you now catching on to what im saying? Class-A legal suit! $$CHA CHING$$
You sir are a fucking moron. Learn to write in the English language (or whatever language you actually can read/write/speak) before you attempt to voice your opinion.
I want my money back!!!
Your money is the least of the worries. Given what they provided, consider your few pounds going to a good cause. They got fucked, and you are worrying about a few lousy pounds?
Why is no one asking the question.. ” what happens to the users of newzbin.com
Is the MPAA going to come after them
Hear hear! STFU scammed
Nothing should happen to the users…
If I remember correctly, in one of the updates during the court hearing, legal team mentioned that they don’t keep any log files. So, nobody has a way to find out what you’ve downloaded.
Plus, I could be wrong of course but, mainly companies are after seeders, not leechers.
Couldn’t agree more, I would happily have paid the same for newzbin, as I did for my usenet sub, and the 300+ days I had left, screw that.
Saddest thing is that there are no alternatives even offering remotely the same featureset as newzbin did 😦
nzbmatrix is pretty close…
You can achieve similar RSS features by using Yahoo! Pipes.
They can have all the money they had in my account, they need what was there, I got my moneys worth in the first month I was a member there… over 5 years ago
stop complaining about what little money they had from you.
Stop whining, dude….
You got more than your money’s worth – as we all did. I couldn’t agree more with Havoc.
– Happy customer since 2002
We’ll miss ya Newzbin!
greedy bastard!!!!
best money spend for the last (7 or 8?) years…
for what this site charged you ………GET A LIFE
@Scammed
Seriously? You want you £2.50 back? If money is that short, you have more things to worry about than now Newzbin access. Idiot!
scammed said:
“I want my money back!!!”
Yup same thing here, I signed up for a fucking year and they assured us it would stay open no matter whty the outcome of the trial was. UNBELIEVEABLE!!!
Pissed , are you pissed off or pissed up?
you cannot surely expect it to stay open after that onslaught?
wake up an smell the coffee!
shutup, stupid.
OMG NO!
05-18-10
Was using the site and when refreshed the page got this announcement:
Regrettably the Newzbin website has to close as a result of the legal action against us. More details here:
sad, sad, sad
awwww mannnn this is really sad…..did not expect it to happen so soon…..hope to see you back cos usenet will not be the same no more without newzbin usenetindexsite from the first hour…..r.ip. for now…
Its back to basics… poor buggers who dont know how to sort out usenet manually will go to torrents. Too many stupiid noobs with stupiid comments… I wish you all the best Newzbin… you rocked!
“poor buggers who dont know how to sort out usenet manually will go to torrents”
I know you’re not saying that like it’s a bad thing LOL
fuck the MPAA
R.I.P. Newzbin
Alas. Good times.
Fuck!
An incredibly sad day. So sorry to see you go!
booooo… can’t believe it’s gone!!! I’ve been a customer for years, best site i’ve ever used, and didn’t mind paying for. I still have a year of credit, but don’t really care about it, since i’ve had nothing but good come from that site!
Sad, very sad
I was in the middle of searching and… BAM! – Newsbin closed
Well, R.I.P.
😦
How do I get in touch with someone at Newzbin to refund the credit I hadn’t used?
how about you just think of the money you have saved and thank newzbin
I agree. I’ve been a member for years and thought it was pretty cool that they froze everyone’s credits despite what they were going through.
Think of your “lost” credit as a contribution to the cause.
For crying out loud! Why are you people concerned about a few dollars? Something much worse than losing a little money is going on here.
seriously your that broke?
You are really going to worry about some $5 or whatever they owe you? Get a job. Loser.
Stick your head up your ass and see if the refund desk is there…
They’re in administration. That means you get zip.
he could always go ask the mpaa for his $5… rofl!
dial 1-800-EATSHIT you fuckin’ lame.
you got your money’s worth just to have known about it.
Dude stop and think about what your saying?Some complain about the loss of a few$$ because newzbin shut down.Lets see here what dont sound right? You downloaded how much stuff? You only paid what for the service?Lets get real and stick with whats more important to us.Backing the people up ,that gave us this service!NEWZBIN
damn 😦 its was very good site, hope see something same else this
grtz
Well I kinda suspected this may happen but it’s still a shock and a huge shame for all serious usenet users. Damn… I’m pissed 😦
Many thanks to all the staff for the years of great service you provided and offering the best indexer bar none for so long. The usenet scene also was transformed by your pioneering NZB technology and implementation – you will not be forgotten.
Shame on the MPA and the legal system for providing support to their ridiculous lawsuit.
All I can say is bring on the clones.
I agree 100% And this is just one more reason I will not buy movies on DVD. If the MPAA had taken all the costs they used to take down this site and just dropped the price of their ridiculously high moves, this would not be a problem in the first place. But the greedy bastards with their VERY high 6 and 7 digit salaries need their fix, and they have no idea how to license to other countries, so they price things so high, that downloading becomes the only solution for many. I hope the MPAA chokes on their win.
Who’s next MPAA, Google? Newzbin was nothing more than a search engine like Google (withuot the ads), and if you know how to use Google, you can find the same things there. Strange the MPAA is not suing Google. Fucking Cowards!
The Big Picture/
While I totally agree with the sentiment, have no love for the MPAA or the RIAA,and I am just as guilty as the next of taking, do keep in mind that we were all taking. Sure, just a little bit in the grand scheme, but taking just the same. Remember it’s not just the 6 and 7 digit ‘salary’ earners that your sticking. Those high earners are the ones who put up the money, always multi-millions, to create these major motion pictures. Remember that it is not just the stars who are paid. Sure they are paid a lot, but that’s because no one would buy a DVD/BluRay or movie tickets to see films with no actors they’ve ever heard of – much less pirate a film. Remember the supporting players, i.e., extras. costume designers, makeup artists, hair stylists, gaffers, caterers, drivers, runners, lighting technicians, audio technicians, camera operators, jig operators, boom operators, foley artists, post production houses, voice-over studios, graphic artists, marketing. legal & insurance (those are people, too), filming permits (local tax revenue), etc, ad nauseum. Look at the credits on any major film. Everyone in those credits are paid before the first dime of profit comes is made. And those payouts are made by those 6 and 7 digit earners. By the way, those aren’t salaries – merely profit made from very big risks. A chasm of difference between.
Now then, if you want to seriously look at a price outrage it’s the movie theater ticket price – not the DVD. Seriously, is it better to pay $8.50 to watch a movie once versus $20 or so to keep it forever?
This soapbox makes me tired. Thanks for listening and please remember the little folks.
🙂
blucat makes a somewhat valid point, however, I have no regrets about what I’ve gotten on Newzbin. Why? Well, blucat mentioned going to the cinema for 8.50 for one time viewing or 20.00 or so to “keep it forever”! Not true according to the MPAA, RIAA, PDQEXP, LSMFT whatevers! They say even though we pay real money for these DVD’s, we DO NOT OWN THEM, the production companies still own the movies, you may watch them on your licensed copy but MAY NOT back it up in case of damage, you may purchase the viewing rights to another DVD if it gets damaged. If I pay for it I’m going to protect it to the point of a backup and screw them if they think I, and thousands more, won’t back it up to protect my investment. Purchasing the DVD has made me a non compensated partial owner of the film!
I don’t agree with you blucat. These companies are ripping people off. If you want to watch ONE movie you’re sometimes paying up to three times or more for the same movie. Remember that according to these companies you pay for the rights to watch the movie, you don’t own it (ownership remains with the recording company). But why do you have to pay multiple times for the right to watch a single movie? First, if you want to see it in cinema you have to pay 8.50. Afterwards if you buy the DVD you have to pay the full price again for the rights to watch it (20-25 depending on movie and retailer) and then you have to pay the license fee again if you want to see it on blu-ray! If you happened to lose your DVD they’d simply tell you to buy it again (i.e. you’re paying for the license again since you don’t own the movie itself). So in a case like this you’d be paying three times or more for the same rights to watch a single movie (each time on a different medium, but that’s not the point). If you go to the supermarket you don’t pay three times for the same product. That’s like saying that you have to pay a license fee each time you want to drive your car. Nobody would accept that, right?
If it were up to them they’d charge you each time you watched the DVD or blu-ray. It’s ridiculous.
Good points all, maybe. My main point is that no one forces you to buy DVD’s or go to the cinema. It’s your choice. If you don’t like the price, don’t buy. That does not justify taking for nothing.
Again, I LOVED newzbin and still LOVE usenet and will keep using.
Double standard?
Absolutely, but I can admit it 🙂
Wow – Bad news for the site owners and everyone using the service. I guess it just made everything so easy as opposed to the old way of searching.
The thing is, with sites such as nzbsrus and similar the authorities are fighting a losing battle anyway. And to take Usenet down = never going to happen.
[Sigh]
When will the record, movie and software industries learn that having their libraries available online for a fair price will mean that people will use their services legitimately?! I mean seriously, look at the costs for a Newsbin / Newzbin / Giganews user:
1. Giganews account: $34.99 p/m
2. Newsbin Client: $29.99 one-off purchase
3. Newzbin.com subscription: $3 pm
So it’s not like it’s cheap anyway!! People just want digital media really quickly, so get the infrastructure in place now and GET ON WITH IT!
I think more than ever, there are alternative. Currently, newsgroupservers has two specials – one for thundernews –
http://www.newsgroupservers.com/thundernews-498-unlimited-special.html
which is only $5.00 for the first month
and one for newsdemon:
http://www.newsgroupservers.com/newsdemon-lifetime.html
that gives a lifetime 50% off any of the plans
both come with a free version of newsrover, so you save on that too. there’s still a cost, but there are deals out there to keep it sane.
Even cheaper:
1. Astraweb account: $11.99 p/m
2. Newsbin Client: srsly? just d/l it
3. Newzbin.con sub: $3 p/m
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| Duke To Shut Down Usenet Server
| posted by kdawson on Wednesday May 19, @04:55 (The Internet) |
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/05/18/2342241/Duke-To-Shut-Down-Usenet-Server |
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DukeTech writes “This week marks the end of an era for one of the earliest pieces of Internet history, which got its start at Duke
University more than 30 years ago. On May 20, [0]Duke will shut down its Usenet server, which provides access to a worldwide electronic discussion network of newsgroups started in 1979 by two Duke graduate students, Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis.” Rantastic and other readers wrote about the [1]shutdown of the British Usenet indexer Newzbin today; the site sank under the weight of a lawsuit and outstanding debt. Combine these stories with the recent news of [2]Microsoft shuttering its newsgroups, along with [3]other [4]recent [5]stories, and the picture does not look bright for Usenet.
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/05/18/2342241
Links:
0. http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2010/05/usenet.html
1. http://www.newzbin.com/
2. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/05/05/1232253/Spam-Causes-Microsoft-To-Kill-Newsgroups
3. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/08/06/15/1258238/Verizon-Cutting-Access-To-Entire-Alt-Usenet-Hierarchy
4. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/08/07/12/0014200/Usenet-Blocking-Intensifies
5. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/07/01/1332215/RIAA-Victory-Over-Usenetcom-In-Copyright-Case
Idiots! Thats what you get for being cocky!
Cocky? No.. just too big and too good
RIP Newz You Will Be Missed
Well, lets see if any clones pop up fast, because im really gonna mis newzbin.
Guess newzbin is shut for good now. The site links directly to this page. A moment of silence is in order.
just fix it now
Let me know
This sucks. I love newzbin and I am very saddened by its closure.
I have long wished that newzbin would have charged more for a subscription. Long ago, I feared they wouldn’t last long because of the pittance they charged for their site/service.
If they had more money in the back, perhaps they could have survived this situation. Not saying it’s so, just that it might have been possible.
And it is gone! 😦
Wonder what the people who have purchased credit leftover are going to think.
I had credit left over, and I happily donate it to the guys at Newzbin. They busted their ass and fought hard. I am happy to consider it a donation to their cause.
/Agree and everyone wanting their few bucks back should STFU. They never allowed more than X days payment in advance, just so there wouldn’t be anyone with really high credit “in the bank” — in case of such an occurrence .
I literally can’t believe people are worried about their credit! Given the guys did tons to help everyone I’m sure you can all cope with losing a few quid?! FFS.
I had 358 days, if it had’ve been a lot more I still wouldn’t be crying. I also donated when the case started, just wish I couldn’ve given more.
Been using newzbin for about 5 years and loved it.
The good times are over for the time being.
Best of luck to all the admins and editors, you’ve all done an excellent job over the years.
I agree 50 cents a week. give me a break grow up everyone you dont need any money back they saved you 10’s of thousands of dollars and man hours. long live newzbin you will always be the king of NZB’s
I agree, they took all the risk and got roasted unfortunately. I was hoping they’d come out alive. I am surprised they lost. The price was so low, I’m not worried about my losses, but theirs.
On another note, does this mean all other NZB sites are going down next? Will anyone else be too scared to put up a site as good as Newzbin was? Only time will tell…
I am worried about my Credit!! Worried it is going to the MPAA. I hope they have some assets hidden. I don’t mind the guys at Newzbin having a few pints on me… just don’t want it paid to the MPAA.
STFU, they saved you alot of money… assuming you didnt sign up just before they cut off payments
I did happen to buy a years worth of credit 2 days before the cut off. To be honest I wish i had known I would have bought two or three years worth of credit just so these guys could have that money too.
The fight between rights holders and end users is a stupid fight; why anyone would want to attack their fan base is beyond my. I just hope the MPAA, RIAA and others can figure this out before it’s too late for them.
… cause, I mean, we arn’t going anywhere, that’s for damn sure! 😉
I had over 3,000 days of credit. Man that stacks up when you’re an editor.
OMG…I had 48 weeks of credit left and I could care less about getting my $30 back, that was nothing for what Newzbin provided and in the end took on for US…the Usenet USERS!. They did for us what many of us could not do as easily and made it so foolproof that we could find what we were looking for in a matter of seconds. If you had any issues, it was looked after in a matter of minutes and with a very cheery response.
The MPAA should be destroyed anyway possible. These greedy bastards need to be brought down to the real world, calling your daily user ‘thieves’…. they are the thieves for what they expect people to pay for the product. If Usenet and other methods of obtaining Movies, music, etc disappeared today, they would still expect the price they ask now and soon enough even more!
Shame on you RIAA, MPAA all you other pieces of garbage & for the people who DO WANT A REFUND……. Get a life and be thankful you are not an operator of Newzbin with the £750,000 bill!
I would of gladly put in 5 years worth, just so they could of had some extra money in the bank. If they would of put it on the front page that they needed cash, I bet they would of gotten a huge responce.
At this moment credit isn’t of any inportance at all.
*sniff*
“Usenet indexer also turned up running, ahem, similar looking code.” can i get a link?
thanks!
sucks to your asmar MPAA
Sad to see them go. So… what’s a good alternative for free or nearly free (newzbin level pricing).
wtf!! what’s a good replacement for newzxxx?
FOR REAL. 😦 i need this fixed pleeeeeease
Oh shit, I completly forgot about newzxxx wow this is really a sad day.
How am I going to live without newzbin? This is awful I do hope somone has the code it would be such a shame to lose a site I have been using for years. May have to have a beer or 10 to drown my sorrows 😦
RIP Newzbin you will always be remembered
WTF !!!
Thanks Guys! It was good while it lasted.
can anyone give me another site to get my downloads it’s been 3 hours and i miss it?.
perhaps we need an IRC chat room to discuss other sites. i am sure the MPAA is watching this forum as well, so lets not give them any pointers please.
fuck the MPAA. come to my house.
MY GOD!!! NOOOOOOOOOO
Boo MPA
Oh noooooo!
Just clicked a link on newzbin.com on a browser window that had been sat idle for only a couple of hours, and got a “site closed” message, with a link here. Fucking ouch indeed!!
Here’s hoping they are back eventually.
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can anyone give me another site to use i’m having a panic attack HELP????????
I’m using:
http://nzbmatrix.com/
Not quite as good as Newzbin, but serving my needs pretty good until something better comes along.
How retarded are you?
do not mention other sites here, unless u want them closed too.
Nice. Put that site into the MPA’s crosshairs. Brilliant.
…aaaaand the server overloads.
you fucking tard!!
I’ll probably move to
http://www.nzbs-the-mpaa-can-bite-my-crank.com
The URL is a little cumbersome, but what can you do.
Like the mpaa can’t use google
This sucks! I have been using Newzbin for years now. I guess I go my moneys worth but what happens to those of us who prepaid for premium credit? Its only a few dollars… guess they need it now more than I do. I wish them the best of luck.
Is Newzbins site linking to this article which is largely about the source and database being “hacked” imply something. It seems like an odd article to link to. Why not put this information on their page?.
I don’t even care about the year of credits I lose, it’s the service I’m sad about. Down with the MPAA for infringing on my freedoms. Newzbin isn’t breaking the law, the user who downloads copyrighted material is breaking the law.
sad good luck to all for having a wonderfull site
Exploitation is the nature of capitalism. No surprises here. 500 pounds for a usenet indexing software seems a bit steep.
lets hope so
fok
ok… That sucks! What’s a good alternative site at this moment for a not-so-technical-dude like me?
zomg first
It’s closed now 😦 Was good while it lasted
another Usenet indexer also turned up running, ahem, similar looking code — >> WHICH ONE??
Yea, bad news … those digits hurts like hell even in plain text …
clone’s are and will be available always, so grabbers will need to switch their homepages to someone else background.
cheers from ex NzbPlanet Team !!!
Unbelievable..I thought they would rise from the ashes likea Phoenix…but it doesn’t look like thats going to happen. Oh well, guess we’ll have to use Google from now on…at least they have a bit of a better chance of a fight against the MPA LOL
uh, what about my money? I paid you for the following one and a halve year to serve me with this particular informations!!! You regardlessly took my money…..
Get over it.
Can’t believe all the moaning tw@ts You knew they were in trouble when you resubscribed, they hid nothing from us and we all made a choice to do it. They were the best on the net by far and I have no complaints at all. Those asking about alternatives, try:
Merlins Portal – very good…… or. NZB Matrix
yea, really people… why are some of you worried about the credits you have left??? I had many months left. Pocket change for the service they provided and we’ve ALL been using it for free for a few months now anyways.
This is a sad day indeed, I made many friends on this site.
I agree.. STFU already. I lost over a years worth of credit and thats the least of my concerns.
no actually we didn’t know when we resubscribed , i subscribed in december…… and had 620 days left (2 year subscription)…..
so your out what $25-30? they saved you that with whatever you downloaded… STFU you whiny bitch
No they didnt, they have for a very long time said that this could happen and you shouldent pay to much in advance, and if you do there is no refound. You should read up on what you are paying for…
WOW Steve!! A year and a half!! You’re trying to take these people down in their worst time, especially when Newzbin only ever allowed up to 52 weeks of Credit total.
Why be such a thieving little piece of SHIT when Newzbin gave you thousands more than you ever paid. Get a God Damn Life,
Go complain to the MPA. They’re the ones who caused this.
@Steve
Some of us purposefully bought extra credit because it was an easy way to donate for their fight.
Considering the value for money you got from the Newzbin service, it might have been more appropriate to THANK them, instead of bitching over a few measly dollars.
They hoped to make money. As Google, IBM, Facebook, Blackwell Briggs or others do So, they just didn’t pull the right trigger…but my money ist in there pocket. I have the right to shout it out. If anyone try to pull out money off my wallet without any return…so wtf
They have to give me my money back. I payd you to brng me a service. They want to do in the future…give me my money back i payd you for the future.
Whats wrong with it?
Seriously? Yeah, Steve. This whole thing was a conspiracy to rob you. The MPAA took the Newzbin guys out drinking tonight, laughing at your expense (literally.)
Are you fucking serious?
Even if Newzbin wanted to pay back whiny ungrateful little bitches, they couldn’t- their assets are not under their control. Why don’t you moan to the MPAA about it, I’m sure they’ll be oh so sympathetic to your plight.
Furthermore, nobody is ever going to take your bitching seriously when you can’t even form coherent sentences. When it takes two or three reads to try deciphering the tripe you’re spewing, it just isn’t worth the effort; you could have made some profound breakthrough on the coevolutionary theory of black holes, and nobody would bother to read it because it would look like their cat got loose on the keyboard again.
Cliffs:
1. stfu
2. …
3. profit
you said it brother, fuckin’ ouch!
Ouch… I was just on an hour ago..and now this… Arrg… Maybe a Move to Russia is in order to give “relief”..
Long Live Newzbin!
So wtf do I use now?
NUU not my newzbin…man it feels like a good friend just passed on.
What happens to memebrs with credit left. I have over 200 days left, is it tough shit for me then?
YES….GET OVER IT!!!!!!
Tough shit it is for u.
Worrying about your few miserable bucks.
I’m sure you bought them at half price.
Nzbmatrix is down. Coincidence?
Anyway, this is one of the best apart from Newzbin.
RIP 😦 … need alternatives 😀
gingadaddy or nzb matrix
“another Usenet indexer also turned up running”
where? what?
These rumors are for fucking morons to believe. Anyone who wants any information can come to irc.freenode.net #newzbin.
-stfukthxbai
oh dear 😦
I smell an open-source newsgroup indexing API about to be born. 🙂
already did a while back, there’s http://sourceforge.net/projects/ikbin/ and http://www.newznab.com
…
Damnit, Newzbin! https://deepsharer.wordpress.com/2010/05/18/newzbin-gossip/…
Thanks for this report… Life without Newsbin is going to be tough unless a clone appears. The media industry is just so greedy and so out of touch when it comes to delivering a modern service. My gripes are that they pay top actors crazy sums like 20 – 40 million dollars to make often poor movies and then expect us to jump to their marketing plan… giving us a service I think oh, so not.
omg… thats poor!
So if newzbin has been forced to close, what about all the other nzb sites doing the same thing ?
damm
What? This can’t be happening! Where have all the cowboys gone?
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Now it is time to legally buy your products, instead of getting everything for free. The internet won’t be a Wild West forever.
that’s not what your mom said
I would never ever pay 50 dollar for a game thats not even good or fun for more than 2-3 hours. There are several titels i have been interesting in buying, but never for that price.
How about the companies coming down to earth and take resonable prices for the games and dvd’s, then it would be easyer to buy Legal copies instead of downloading them.
Imo its just greedy, i can understand that they want payed for their efforts and job, but selling 1000 cd’s for 49.00 or 5000 cd’s for say 25 dollar?
I like to try before I buy. I do buy what I use and like.
In fact I have bought many dollars worth of games, programs, movies, and music that I would not have bought had I not been able to TRY FOR FREE first. And many I never would have heard of was it not for the Usenet and I mean thousands of dollars. And If I do it there must be a lot of other people doing the same.
I would like to note that free trials of programs that are restricted by options or time frickin suck. buy the time I have a chance to use it it has expired, or works at 70%. so I try before I buy.
Some game companies shouldn’t be making games they suck so much, I wonder how the get the money to waste on such crap. so I try before I buy. Movies, if they are good enough to keep and watch again then they are good enough to buy.
As far as the music, I used to DJ (as a hobby) and did about about 15 gigs a year for 7 years. Because I could download and listen to the music out there on the web for free. I puchased over 1500 cds (yes even the one’s with only one good song… the bastards). They need the Usenet at least if they want my money.
According to ‘the’ companies stupid customers are only good enough to buy their trash. But they won’t say that loud.
opensource-newsgroup-indexing-API would be great 🙂
sux, but we all new it was coming from the last time it stopped indexing.
i started use this site ngindex.com
its an Ok site, not as good as Newzbin though.
R.I.P Newsbin
sad day for the normal folk
gay .
racist bigot , u need to grow up !!!
ha ha, are gay’s a different race now!
LOL. Hardman must be a fudgepacker, he took offense……
Great!
Anyone with a similar site to Newzbin?
FUCK
http://nzbmatrix.com
don’t tell stupid people so shit like this won’t happen
How stupid are you?
do not mention other sites here, unless u want them closed too.
ahem..
mention as many sites as you can think of. the mpaa/riaa have hired guns who will find them anyway. every site they take to court will cost ’em a piece of their pile. the more sites they find, the more expense they’ll have. at some point they’ll see that their cost/effect ratio has plummeted, and produced a motherfucker of a nosebleed. newzbin was targeted only after months of investigation and evaluation. because of their loyal following, reputation, and professionism, they were selected so to be made AN EXAMPLE which hopefully will frighten others into shutting down and prevent new start-ups from forming. it was a done deal before the first filing, everyone who needed to be paid off in order to secure a win was paid more than a year prior. that’s why all those greasy hollywood fucks arrived to court daily with the same condescending smirk on their faces; they knew the fix was in. targeting newzbin was an ECONOMIC choice made by a bunch of fat slobbering assholes who’s greed is surpassed only by their dishonesty. their every step is governed by economics and the never-ending fear that someone will steal their pile when they’re sleeping.. someone will steal. their pile.
who exactly are these guys? and where exactly are they?
these are the topics they fear we’ll discuss, more than anything else in the whole wide world. their anonymity (to them) is priceless.
holy christ, my worst nightmare.
People complaining about losing your money??! You lost like $6-8 at most and really they are getting sued in the arse for all that money. You invested money into them and they crashed and fell. I’m out 300+ days of credit myself, but yeah big deal it was a good service and I got my moneys worth and then some.
YACKER!…I totally agree… this is trub from the old #BH on IRC btw…
drop me an email sometime at my often spammed acct on yahoo.
trub_2006@yahoo.com… other indexers out there BTW… but the comments on newzbin were a big plus. Try nzbclub.com for shits and giggles.
L8R
trub
aka CAT DAVE
Newzbin said during the hearing that if it lost the case it would still operate its website, but might introduce filtering.
A Newzbin spokesman said earlier this month: “If (The MPA) win, then Newzbin will not be shut down.
“In all probability there will be an inquiry as to damages and a new mini-trial over the terms of an injunction compelling us to block material of the claimants.”
“1. Giganews account: $34.99 p/m
2. Newsbin Client: $29.99 one-off purchase
3. Newzbin.com subscription: $3 pm”
…more like:
1. Astraweb $11
2. Free news client
3. Take your pick of free services… LOL.
sure…but that stuff’s not as good. If it’s good enough for you fine…
Pikey! 😉
😦
I’m building a case against Newzbin, I’m going to sue them for all the credit they’ve kept from us users. Wish me luck 😉
Best of luck with that. Get in line behind the MPAA and wait for your check.
You’re a fucking idiot. Very few people will join you in a class action against Newzbin. None of us want to kick these boys while they are down. It was an awesome service and we all used the hell out of it. Stop being a money grubbing maggot and consider your remaining credit as a “thank you” tip for great service while it lasted.
Does anyone know of another NBZ site that offers SSL connections?
good luck with that you prick – be an army of one – fuck you
You’re a stupid asshole.
Good God you better be joking.
Stupid ass
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well at least we got rich, earning each 300k pound a year. the debt is on the limited company. haha screw mpaa.
thanks for your money 😉
so where else can i get my games
nzb matrix or gingadaddy
How imbecile are you?
do not mention other sites here, unless u want them closed too.
So this is what we all end up with: downruled. Orwell is history and things have advanced a many. Google is taking your wireless and cellphone, and the big money leaves you pissed off. No choice.
All you dickheads whining about a refund….go fuck your self….how many hundreds…or maybe thousands…or maybe tens of thousands of dollars of downloads did that website provide indexing for in the way of movies, music, software, games etc that you downloaded instead of buying at the store? You cheap mutherfuckers…waa waa waa, I lost a couple of pounds/dollars/euros…boo hoo ya bunch of ungrateful bastards. If all you sons of bitches would take 10 seconds out of your shitty little self absorbed lives, you would and could find alternatives for Newzbin, but there will NEVER be a replacement for it…they were the best, and always will be….full stop
well said timmy,i agree,fuck the whiners
I WANT MY MONEY
I WANT MY MONEY
I WANT MY MONEY
I WANT MY MONEY
I WANT MY MONEY
I WANT MY MONEY
THEY FUCKING SCREWED US!! DONT YOU SEE HOW F:::ING ANGRY I AM? I AM USING CAPSLOCK! CAPSLOCK
I NEVER USE CAPSLOCK
You don’t deserve any money.
show some respect.
STFU, go get an 2nd job if your that much of a broke loser.
YOUR A D*CKHEAD
YOUR A D*CKHEAD
YOUR A D*CKHEAD
YOUR A D*CKHEAD
YOUR A D*CKHEAD
YOUR A D*CKHEAD
DON’T YOU SEE WHAT A D*CKHEAD YOU ARE? GROW UP!
I NEVER USE CAPSLOCK EITHER!
where is the ‘rate this comment low’ button when you need it?
was that your last money in the world?
I guess the millions in costs they incurred count for shit?
WELL SAID, SIR.
I lost a year’s worth, it was well lost. Good bye, old friend.
Rot in hell you whiney bitch! I’m sure you got 10X your miney’s worth!
Very sad day for the free world.
I am SO SO SO SO sad… NZB did more than a awsome work! Industry is killing good innovation… they better start to get some.
Thanks a 1000000 to NZB work and dedication… it will never be the same anymore.
A wishky, a beer and a burbon
Cheers!!! (glass held high in memorium)
Seems lots of former newzbin members are heading over to NZBMatrix for their fix.
http://nzbmatrix.com
I don’t think they’re letting new members sign up unless you’re referred.
Even their porn index site, http://www.newzxxx.com, is unreachable and has the same message.
The site shutdowns are unfortunate, but won’t stop people from getting what they want. I use binsearch.info. Its not as tidy, but its free.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO damn that was my last vestage of hope… oh no it wasnt tube sites pretty much make up that now…
nzbmatrix seems a good site…£7 for vip membership..only been using it about a week but works well
100% agree with Timmy
Are you forgetting the fact that Newzbin was a commercial business and had a turnover of over 1 MILLION per year?
If a company is making that much, they can afford to give there customers the few quid back when they ceased all accounts.
But no, they were greedy. They pretended they couldn’t do it, and now they declared themselves bankrupt to riddle out of paying the people they owe money to (which includes servers, bandwidth, coders…)
Are you 12 or something Arnold? Angry because you lost your pocket money?
That’s £1M TURNOVER, not profit. You think they didn’t need to pay for the servers and bandwidth to host that site? And how much do you think they had to spend defending that site in court so that you could get a hell of a lot for virtually nothing?
If anyone is greedy it’s the idiots that are moaning about their lost credits. I very much doubt the owners have come out of this with any money left at all.
You’re a fucking idiot!
Go Fuck yourself! For how much you gained?? Get a life.
@ Arnold
You’re the one that’s “building” a case against Newzbin, and planning to sue. LOL!
Personally, I don’t have much faith is retards who can’t differentiate between “there”, “their” and “they’re”.
Go crawl back under that rock of yours.
I have not bought a CD since the RIAA started their lawsuits years ago. I can do the dame damn thing with DVD’s and BR’s. Screw ’em.
It really would make a difference when a lot of people did the same.
I blame the torys and their fucking cock slaves the libs, fuck! that the election happened way after the court case.
Put someone out of bussines just to prove a point, and make no fucking diffrence to piracy what ever.
THe owner will probably just setup another site under a diffrent name that does the same thing.
Torys and Liberals? This has little do do with ONE nations petty politics..
Get a grip..
This is Hollywood’s greedy entertainment corporations throwing their financial weight around.
Oh yes, timmy. you just hit the point about the whiners. No refund of a few cents is really hard and being braindead is a lethal crime *hehe*
Anyway I am concerned about the level of web control companies are trying to reach…
God for many years nzb use this service to me is bullshit rapides us about it many paying users were affected it that everything has to be in lawsuits which is the term of freedom in the network there is no soponia prestige that no services were sejuro newz and reliable is a shame to see a page that has been ordered closed and was well hopefully give us alternatives to this and a solution
Well they owe me over a year, but to be honest they can keep it, i’m very happy with the service i got from them so keep the cash and use it to pay any bills they need to very sad day IMO.
All1
I am/was 425 days in credit, but I’m not asking for that back. I’m glad it lasted as long as it did.
Would like to see what happens next, though. My first thought is a distributed service that nobody can take down, but it’s the control and order that newzbin.com imposed that gave it the quality. And god knows, nobody using usenet would want to use a p2p based service if they could help it.
So, what can we come up with that’s based on usenet itself?
The question is now, do the MPA get the user database?
Man you’re a fucking idiot….. If you had been an involved Newzbin user, you would know already that Newzbin does not, did not, will not keep records of your IP, or the NBZs you DL’d.
The user database only had usernames, no actual names and addresses attached. Once the payment was completed the account info was updated and then “real Info” destroyed.
Release the newzbin indexing and front end source code then let 1001 copy cat sites spring up. Keeps newzbin’s orginal purpose going plus sticking it to the MPAA etc
Those guys must have saved me thousands, I’m not fucking over a couple of quid. Fucking bummed though… lets hope something semi decent arises from the ashes.
I can’t believe how many idiots are demanding a refund, idiots!
RIP Newzbin
Shame , Shame , Shame ,,,, I am so disapointed in all the people that have downloaded and are now moaning about the funds that they have left , come on guys we have had it so good for a long time , its gone from a closed group to open access to all ,, how long did you think it would last being in the public domain ,,, good luck Newzbin you have gave me good sewrvice and alot of good D/L’s keep my money ,,,,,,, PS thanks to all the good guys who have posted over the years ,, dose anyone know of any other established indexing sites ????
Thanks all Steve’O
Good Question Arnold ,,, Will they have access to the user DB Newzbin staff please advise as I know you will be watching this Forum
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Any alternatives out there that have comments like newzbin? To avoid downloading something that isn’t any good. I’m gonna miss them. I wish there was some warning so I could have downloaded the nzb’s I had bookmarked. Only thing I’m upset about.
R.I.P newzbin! Thnx for everything!
And to all you greedy, cheap ass bastards…go F*CK yourselfs!
respect newzbin
yea they probably made money, but dont forget all the lawyers cost.
I for one dont need the refund, and wouldnt ask for it. They were a great site, that did something some countries would consider is illegal.
Think of all the stuff you downloaded from there site, and imagine paying for it instead.
who cares about the money, I agree with Arnold, what happens to there User Database?
-burn
-burn
i love you newzbin, you will of course be missed by many. may you rest in peace. im not worried about loosing a few quid in credit because i got one over the likes of bill gates, got to think of number ha ha ha i got loads of stuff from newzbin and i love it cant wait for the clones. fuck all the companys that want to charge hundreds for software i love fucking you up the arse. and as for the bloke in coment 80 what the fuck you wont get fuck all, newzbin are getting raped you think ur going to get anything out of them, you probably had hundreds of pounds of stuff. everyone stop moaning about credit loss. dick heads, go to trading standards ha ha .
im going to do my own site mr ginge bin.com
RIP Newzbin
MPA hope to see you join them soon
It was a great ride while it lasted.
i had like a year worth of credit left that i got at xmas pricing so like $12, not worth bitching about. if i could just get somthing that would do ratings on files in usernet that would be grate.
“GRABIT”
not the same but helpfull none the less
fuck that money,
I want my downloads.
this is really sad news guys, really fucking sad news
newzbin was the best
i hope that we get some replacements
back to FTD , fuck that
NZBMatrix has ALWAYS been better – & cheaper too. 😀
I disagree, newzbin was better looking,faster and it included titles for tv-episodes.
nzbmatrix also limits the amount of nzbs you can download over a 24 hour period, and yes, this has already affected me twice.
NZBMatrix is a turd. As well as being slow as hell to navigate (there’s like 25 entries per page, ffs), its terrible design makes the whole experience a total fucking chore.
Even though I’m a VIP there, I truly hope something better comes out so I can immediately jump ship. NZBMatrix appears to currently be the best nzb service at the moment, but that’s not exactly hard when the rest of them are gigantic steaming piles of shit.
Newzbin was the only indexing service not run by complete morons.
@NZBMatrix: Redesign your fucking mess of a site, for Christ’s sake! Copy Newzbin’s design if you have to. What you currently have belongs in the late 1990s on GeoCities.
That’s sooo funny, dude!!
NewzBin, you were a wonderful episode in my life and will always have a place in my heart. R.I.P
are we going to see any _refunds_ ?
What a bunch of BULLSHIT!!! I’ve been a Newsbin member for YEARS. I only use the site to tell me what’s been posted and where…Anyone know another good site that shows what’s been posted to alt.binarries newsgroups?
Thanks for any help or Info. Lets all PRAY that Newsbin can some-how make a comeback.
MPA ARE FAGSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSsssss
those retarted a@@@@@@@@@ I feel for the newzbin guys they should put a donation page up on newzbin.com
wouldn’t bring much in, but it would bring some in.
is there a way to sue them personally, i mean not the company, but the admins personally. i think they still have a lot of money.
we could get back our credits.
Man you’re a fucking idiot…..
Is there a way for the MPAA to sue you directly? I mean, not your household, but you personally. I think you still have a lot of downloaded data. The MPAA could get back their money.
Don’t be an idiot.
I’ve got over a year’s worth of credit with Newzbin. I gladly allow them to keep it for the superb service over the years.
Best post ever. PERIOD.DOT.
tbh, we all saw this coming, Newzbin have been posting updates quite frequently about its legal standings. If anyone had any sence, they would of cancelled subscriptions and asked for money back way before now! But no, everyone just wanted to keep downloading and hoped that this would never happen. Well now it has, you can hardly complain that you cant get your money back. I am probably owed a few quid to, but im not worried. I just think about all the money i saved by using this excellent site. There will be other like it, maybe not as good, but there will be others….. “you can’t stop the signal Mal”
oh shit… *sighs* …there, are, more nzb sites…
back in the day when we had to have an irc client running 24/7 to be eligible for access to such stuff, or belong to a group… we never had problems like this 😀
Cocky cocky cocky – Justice Kitchen is a Pillock – blah blah blah -…
Newzbin goes tits. Ohhhh Theres a shock. Funny as fuck. Dickheads.
Sounds like you have some inadequacy issues there “Norman”.
They were as cocky as fuck and the English judicial system crushed them. Why is that my problem? Why the fuck am I inadequate because Newzbin buried themselves you cunt?
I dont think anyone said it was your problem you Norman. I think he was just saying that youre a twat. Fair point I think.
STORMIN NORMAN HAS SPOKETH … Caps**
+1 for not getting it
lol, what a cunt. why are you here, you miserable bitch?
I’m sorry to see them go, very sad screw the mpa they have enough money greedy bastards. I had 166 days left I don’t care about the money.
themonkeymafia.info FTW
perhaps we need an IRC chat room to discuss other sites. i am sure the MPAA is watching this forum as well, so lets not give them any pointers please.
I’m sure they already know everything anyways but yea gotta love it when idiots post links to other indexers
Yeah like, Hey I got every movie ever made and you can get it at blah blah blah.
Again, MPAA, Newzbin was not providing these downloads. It was only a site that sorted information. That doesn’t delete the information from the internet, you idiots. Good luck ever getting rid of the internet.
A damn shame. A great site, a good community (on the whole). I lurked in the irc channel for a long time, had over 1,000 days of credit left.
Guys, thanks for a great ride. It’s been fun. Good luck in your future endeavours.
Just wish they’d given a day’s notice so I could back up my saved searches
noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
oooes noes!!!
the horror!
What’s the legal status of the source code? Would there be anything stopping them push it to somewhere like GitHub? 🙂
this is a sad sad day I was with them for like ever! Well worth the money, hope they win all other cases.
Soooo now where is that hacked code and what’s the IP ??? 🙂 🙂 😉
Timmy Gump said it best ,
we all have downloaded thousands of $$ worth of stuff.
And ppl are crying over a few $
Pathetic
I know. Those people must be short time users. Thanks for the money anyways.
I don’t care about the money, it was peanuts and definitely well worth the price compared to alternatives; what I care about is the site! How well it worked, how configurable it was and how quickly I could find what I want – there’s no comparison, and I’ve tried all the alternatives. This is terrible news.
how about making the software available for everyone? placing it under gnu/gpl license would be a fine move.
Agreed, would teach MPA just how hard to fuck themselves. REAL HARD BITCHES!
if they need money, plz make them set up a fund..
So sad pricks like you can fund them?
why are you such a fag? the guy set a site up and ppl like u are just worrying about the cash, grow a pair and think of others
You are such a fucking douche bag…
Leave Norman alone he is cleary going through some teenage angst. Funny.
re:reply no 1
It is spelled ridiculous. Who are you calling f-ing stupid.
I’m calling you fucking stupid Melvin. I’m doing it. What are ya gonna do about it?
Well, ilmoakw, I will see to it that you die within the next 150 years!
well this fucking sucks…fucking politicians … i hope they can get out of this cheap, or at least relatively cheap..
good luck fellas.. thanks for great service over the years! and whoever want their money back…well.. WTF? cmon…
I tell you… One minute I was just trying to find an episode of Oprah I missed and then all of sudden I get redirected here. Thanks Newzbin for all your years of service!!! Yes SERVICE!!! And that’s all they provided was a SERVICES. Not the Bootleggin operation that the bone headed judge found you guilty of.
R.I.P
Piracy is not one of Oprah’s favorite things! Now we know what really killed the site.
Gonna miss you newzbin. Keep the 2xx days i had left, would have gladly paid more!
OMG they are going to prosecute members based on their download NZB file download logs?
yeah thats EXACTLY what is going to happen you dumb fuck
where did you hear that?
I recall the Newzbin folks stating that they DID NOT log these transactions. So don’t believe that BS
Every business logs cc payments, and Newzbin was a business. It will start there.
I’ve seen it before.
Ignore that, its just Norman being a twat again. =)
Newzbin doesn’t log your IP or the NBZs you DL’d Fucking Relax….
RIP Newzbin
and FU Arnold
Keep my 40 days of nzb credit, use it to perhaps engage in a new innovative internet thing or retire 🙂
Good service for cheap money
Anywho, I am off to http://www.nzbs.org which I find is the best alternative to newzbin and what newzbin lite should have been.
Really digging nzbs.org
Does it require an invite? Or have they just stopped accepting new registrations during these crazy times?
They do not accept new members…
Unfortunately there is no way to check this site as they aren’t taking any new members.Bummers as like so many is looking for an alternative to Newzbin…
Too bad they are not accepting new memberships. Probably on the same path as Newzbin. Good luck to them though.
shame it had to come to this, really good site. i lost 66 weeks of credit, but ill get over it stop complaning about lost credit. they need it now they are 300k in debt. they provided a great service for 25p a week nzbmatrix is ok but it aint as good as newsbin.
Whats with all these moaning F***s going on about there lost credits?
So you lost a few £ or $ these guys who provided you with an excellent service are set to lose a lot more than that, get over it and quit your inconsiderate rambling.
Think how much you spent and downloaded compared with the costs of going to a shop/cinema and paying the full price.
RIP Newzbin
Y’all should be lucky they don’t pull them user logs and cc transactions and start suing the ever loving bejesus out of you. NEWZBIN LOGGED EVERYTHING and now they will be forced to turn them over.
IT’s true! They said it on IRC!
15:00:42 yes
15:00:44 yes
15:00:46 yes
That’s three admins agreeing all at once, therefore, it must be true!
You’re a fucking idiot…. Newzbin has never logged IPs or NBZ file DLs… Stop being a total Douche bag
logged what ? a disposable credit card number that i used to get on the site ? via greendot ? or wait , they have my user information which includes a nickname and a password…. ohhhh ouch….. oh wait i know they logged the nzb’s i downloaded ? so phucking what …… NOTHING that I ever used on newzbin ever will amount to anything or any privacy issues. No they didn’t log anything except transactions. in reality it wasn’t them directly but their CC processing page that did that. 3rd party. sorry buddy, try again… if your going to vent about things , at least make it something that makes sense. Sorry if you lost out , most all of us did on at least a few dollars. I myself had 255 days left of an account. Its a good thing i only signed up for a year., The last time i Topped up (around xmas time 2009) there was a link on there for top up for 2 and 3 years……..
NEWZBIN is still ‘playing’ people!
Bad news 😥
I just made a new account on another large nzb site.. but if they start a fund, I will gladly pay 10$ or so.. even if newzbni never again sees the light of day.. I just want to give something back to the creators.
People are such crybabies on this thread! Wasn’t NEWZBIN like $2.00 US per 3 months?
Do you stand on a corner BEGGIN for those $2? NO? Then write it off, what are you crying about?!
LOYAL FECKIN MEMBER FOR YEARS!!!!!!!!!! AND I MEAN YEARS!!!!!!
YOUR SERVICE WAS FANTASTIC 10/10, AVAILABILITY 10/10, USERABILITY 10/10!!! SNIFF SNIFF YOU WILL ALL BE MISSED!!!
What real alternatives is there to newsbin?
why don’t we have a boycott the cinema, video rental shop, put cable/sky and subs on hold month? Do you think that would create a message?
WOW, I am deeply sad by this whole situation…This was 1 of the best sites….I hope there will be more like this one soon..I hope that no one can get our info that would really suck for all of us…..
newzleech — http://www.newzleech.com
alt.binaries.nl — http://alt.binaries.nl
yabse — http://www.yabsearch.nl
binsearch — http://www.binsearch.info
nzbindex — http://nzbindex.nl
bintube — http://www.bintube.com
aeton — http://search.aeton.biz
nzbnova — http://www.nzbnova.com
nzbfile — http://www.nzbfile.com
newzsearch — http://newzsearch.com
nzb.to — http://nzb.to
eweka — http://usenetsearch.eweka.nl
Newzsearch.com is done
Thanks for all the editors and moderators…See ya all on the flip side…lol
To all you leeches it is still all out there but no one is willing to spoon feed you any more….
im fucking made up its been shut down. was a customer for about 5 years and when i asked on their IRC channel why i couldnt purchase more than 1 years worth of credit had lycos chat style abuse thrown my way by the idiotic cocksuckers of the site.
i asked them to delete my account and found another paying site within 10 minutes which i have found much better 😀
unlucky NZB Chris…..who personally joined in with the ‘banter’…he who laughs last and all that…
OMG Noooo!
I was a Newzbin user for like 5 years. It was the greatest usenet indexing site out there.
R.I.P.
You will be missed.
it was fun while it lasted eh? let’s all stop pretending that what were doing isn’t grossly immoral (think, Adobe CS 5 master collection downloaded in less than an hour for the low price of free). pirating is addicting, you checked newzbin once a day (probably more) with no real goal, just browsing to see what you can steal next. how many times did you hit the external link button for something to see what it was, and THEN download it. imagine how that looks to the judge trying the case… that you didn’t even think about stealing this game/movie/app until newzbin put it in it’s list o’ free shit for you to enjoy. kinda fucked up… you can say fuck the mpaa til your blue in the face, but know damn well that if you had a product or service that people were raping the shit out of daily, you’d be crying to the judge too. anyone that truly believes that pirating anything is justified is just fucking retarded (coming from someone who was been doing it since before cable modems came out).
furthermore, all the people that want their money back… now you know how the mpaa feels, lmao. i mean, are you fucking serious?? you’re worried about the 6 bucks you paid after stealing thousands of dollars worth of digital media? u so funny.
Lastly, although newzbin was the best, it certainly wasnt the only. i hope im not the only person that’s been registered with other nzb sites for years… and im not sure how many of you realize this, but the files are still on usenet, and will be for a loong time, even if nzbs went to heaven, you just have to try a little harder. would probably be for the best, eh? shit like this always goes awry when you stupid proof it for the masses.
p.s. whens the last time you guys stopped to thank all the people that bust their ass and risk their freedom to put this media on your computer? huge thanks to all the release groups: crackers, coders, distributors, insiders, AND the posters and editors on great sites like newzbin. without these sceners you’d be in line at redbox right now (perish the thought!)
btw i wonder how these other nzb sites are going to handle the increased traffic, lol,
Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to nzbmatrix.com
it would appear…not so well…
Good point !
RIP newzbin, you’ve been good to me.
Shame, but….
google search nzb downloads, click, click, and carry on as before.
I should have known something was up when they quit taking payments for topping up.
They should set up a donations page and let joe public make donations to clear some debts, that would really feck MPAA off and i would gladly make a donation to help the guys out, they provided a service to content that can also be found on any search engine if you took the time to look but as someone has already said They wont go after the big boys like Google……
😉
Howzabout everyone let us know who else to target?
I’ve had a few suggestions already from the previous posts….
Any more we can add to our list?
I have some others to target, how about all the JEWS, and more of the JEWS and some more JEWS. I could use some new lampshades and cheap help, yes target ALL THE JEWS.
I do not want a refund, I had 500+ days left of credit but I don’t want to make an already bad situation even worse, if possible I would donate to get the site back up and running again, like it was six months ago, before they were forced to limit their indexing services.
so come on! just let them keep the money, truth be told, newzbin was a really cheap service and I think they deserved more for that quality of content and the site design itself.
Good luck guys!
oh and btw, I should also mention, I will donate even if the site never comes back up, I wasn’t a long time member as many others here probably have been, but still like i mentioned in my previous post, the quality of newzbin was really over the top.
I’m boycotting DVD and music purchases for now.
GUTTED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“Users have been pressing Newzbin to Opensource the site code but they’ve refused.”
Why? I can understand while they were running a business, but due to legal action they wound up shutting down; how in any way does it benefit them to keep the source closed? I never understood the closed source mentality that will clutch source code into the grave. Like when almost completed games are never released and the source is locked in a vault, rather than given to the community to finish and release, or like here, where someone has a site or app that is either shut down, or about to be shut down by legal action from rightsholder groups. For Christ sake why NOT release the source at that time; there is just no better way to day FU to whoever is suing you!
dood, they will get raped harder by the MPA if they release the code, that’s why the site was conveniently “hacked” and the source code was “stolen” read between the lines you nub.
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!!
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!!
Damn, this site was so good, i’ll never find anotherone like this…..
Whre should i download now?????
Usenet is now in Jeopardy. Prepare for Internet 2.0. Further lock-down, suppressed freedom of speech, corporate media owned tubes. Drink your tap water, pay your taxes and STFU, slaves.
While I’m partially joking about it, Internet 2.0 does exist and is a serious threat to freedom of speech. Do a quick search on it.
To the tight fisted whingers bleating about their money.
Get a life, you penny pinching wankers
Newzbin saved so many of us thousands for the price of 1 dvd a year.
Newsbin was the best. Every NZB site owes it’s existence to them.
Thanks to the team that preovided us with so much over the years.
You will be missed.
The Horror, at least I downloaded mucho crapo in anticipation of this sad day.
So soon? This legal debate has been going on for over a year. Bottom line is if you want to pirate software and movies you will pay the price in the end. I only downloaded replacement disks for clients that lost theirs or grabbed tv shows. I only hope logs were given to the feds so end users will be slapped with fines as well.
Piracy kills the economy so your just as guilty as wallstreet for the collapse of our economy.
I only downloaded replacement disks for clients
Yeah and I don’t inhale.
and it was Banks not Wallstreet and if end users get fined , You will be right with the rest of the end users,
I can hear it now BUT I only downloaded replacement disks for clients haha what a joke
ohhh.. thats bad… mininova, newzbin… and others.. who ll be the next?
I hope newzbin team be ok…
Shame they have decided to close the site, however as it was tied as an asset to thier company then nothing else they can do.
I use http://www.nzbsrus.com anyway, pretty decent site and always has what I need.
I was a member of Newzbin for well over 4 – 5 years and it was in my opinion the best site on the net for doing what it did.
Im sad to of read this and many of us will be lost without you!
Lezenko
Thanks to everybody who was involved in newzbin – you ran a great service.
I’m just hoping that you don’t get stung too much by the courts – that’s if your appeal fails.
I can’t understand the people here whining about a few pounds/dollars when you stand to lose everything.
I’LL BE BACK
Remember everyone. Subscribing to the service and paying for access is not illegal in any country on earth. I could download every nzb ever created on Newzbin and still have never broken a single law.
Thanks to the Newzbin crew, and please take my credit and have a drink on me.
Cheers!
There are A LOT of programs that will allow you to find things on usenet. Simply look at http://www.freebsdsoftware.org/news/ will give you an idea of the variety of them
Well, we knew what was gonna happen really.
Once the ruling was passed they were screwed.
Anyway – this is what I’ve been using for the past couple of months and it’s pretty awesome:
https://www.gingadaddy.net/
No, this isn’t a promo – it’s just another cool service like Newzbin that you can use, that I’ve been using.
Good luck Newzbin – you provided an awesome service for years!
who’s to say anything on this blog is true? Newzbin could have run off to Spain with a big load of dosh for all we know.
Still the idea that i’ve finally paid the MPA for everything i’ve downloaded sounds quite nice.
Well, we knew what was gonna happen really.
Once the ruling was passed they were screwed.
Anyway – this is what I’ve been using for the past couple of months and it’s pretty awesome:
gingadaddy.net
No, this isn’t a promo – it’s just another cool service like Newzbin that you can use, that I’ve been using.
Good luck Newzbin – you provided an awesome service for years!
No way man
It’s a pure shame. 😦
But please could you keep us posted if you hear of similar clones popping up, cheers.
They can have everything I had left for credit: the cretainly deserve it for all they did. This site was the best for the years I needed to find something. Sad to see it go. Here’s hoping that they come back in some form.
Hi all,
Can I suggest you try http://www.nzbmatrix.com, quiet a good site.
Cheers
has 20 day retention for free too.
FUCK YOU ME Its not the money, It is the quality of life that they gave us. Im pretty sad, I do not know what I will do for now on. Mayne Work!!!! jajajja
Newzbin: ““Some people have speculated that if we lose we may be closed down, but even the MPA isn’t arguing for that: what’s being debated is the manner in which we operate not whether we operate,” said the company in an update.
“The message we want you to take away is that, win or lose, you can be confident that the site is here to stay in the long term.”
Sums it up really.
What other site are people using now? I can’t find anything close to what Newzbin offered.
[…] Usenet indexer is linking to a blog post which has additional details on Newzbin’s […]
Me too Bill, me too…
BLAME THE JEWS IN HOLLYWOOD, AND THEY WONDER WHY THE NAZI’S HATED THEM?????
Go away you moron
Could MPA track and sue us, newzbin users?
ouchhh… i hope not
I would like my money back too – but eh.. It’s only $11 loss. Newzbin has given us a lot so the money can be a loss.
This song is appropriate once again.
EVERYDAY IS A FIGHT TODAY WE LOOSE THIS ONE….
wE WiLL BACK SOON….
AND ALLWAYS FUCK THE LAW.
FIGHT.
Shame sad day.
Your all welcome over to http://www.nzbsrus.com though 😉
It was obvious that the Damages would wipe them out. They owe me a bit but they are welcome to it. I had fun out of the site. Worth every penny.
Lets hope a hundred sites open to replace them.
Anyone got an alternative??
Well, nothing to do but lift a glass and toast the Newzbin folks for their years of outstanding service. I’m going to sorely miss ’em.
It was fun while it lasted. Cheers!
Very sad to hear this. Newzbin was a work of wonder.
By the way, bookmarking something on there wouldn’t prove you ever did anything but… bookmark something on there. Fear not the logs.
i had 386 days of credit left and dont care it was the best sitei have used in years jus ta shame a bunch of money grabbing twats could bring it to its knees there are alot of other sites built along the same lines but not as good perhaps they will get as good you can never tell people should stop crying about loseing a few £/$ all who used the site saved alot more than they could have lost shame the companys who did this cant think like newzbin did sad to to them go btu i wish the guys the best of luck in future and for the ones saying they earned this that or the other they where the ones doing all the work sad to see ya go guys
ok guys i was pretty new to all this the money is no prblem as all said we all had moneys worth what id really like to know guys is what do i use now that works same as bin ty
NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
oh well it was good while it lasted.
RIP NEWZBIN………
So I could care less about my credits except that, all the money is going to the MPA now. Its not about leaving them with what little we gave for the service, I would be all for that. The site is shutdown because they are no longer in control of any of the monies and they are now essentially bankrupt. The people they owe money to are now fighting over your left over credits, the MPA.
So if you want your money back file a complaint with Paypal or your credit card company for failure to provide a service paid for. In the US they have to store this money in a separate account until they have completed providing of the service. This may be the case with them as well. That money will all go to the MPA to fund their next court case unless you file a complaint with your payment processor now.
That is your only hope for getting your monies back.
IT WAS GOOD WHILE IT LASTED BUT I AM SURE THEY WILL BE BACK WITH ANOTHER NAME OR SOMTHING
wow people are getting worried a nzb does not contain any copywrite material so its the same as getting a google search
Here’s the obvious one that no one seems to be talkin’ about. Are the members of Newzbin the next target for the MPAA? That’s a far bigger concern than getting your few dollars, pounds, pesos, euros etc. back
Will Newzbin be paying off the MPAA with “intellectual property”, their code and databases? If the site owners have big enough balls they would trash their databases and confidential information ASAP. They are done, they won’t be back. Trust me I worked in the online casino business and when the raids started, we rented shredders and wiped everything it’s the right thing to do.
Sad to see it happen, but with the paranoid world we live in where corporations are willing to spend millions to ferret out the people using services like Newzbin it will continue to happen. So be prepared for a bunch of scared service providers who scale back services to avoid the MPAA, and even more MPAA court actions. They have a fresh kill now and are looking for blood. They have yet to figure out there is only a few thousand on them, and billions of us wanting it for free. This is the Internet, were are inventive, we will adapt, and continue to get the materials we are looking for.
Good-Bye Newzbin
no ones takin’ about users being targeted as Nezbin have stated many times that no logs of what user’s download is kept. They might have your username and ip, but what good is that to anyone. Stop scaremongering.
Sorry to see Newzbin go. I hope you work out something because I cannot even imagine coping with the so called ‘fines’ (I call it legalised robbery) you guys owe now.
All the very best of luck to you and thanks for a great service. It was the best and great while it lasted. 🙂
http://www.nzb-magic.com works good for me 😉
Thanks for all the great years, guys. Let the members know what you go on to do; I’ll do anything I can to support your future endeavors. Peace and thanks from the USA!
i need a dump later bitches !
Oh dear does anyone really need a refund ffs. Maybe they could refund those who are bitching then pass on your db info for being a moaning bitch.
Well done MPA. Now I have to spend another 10/15min finding another site. Big congratulations. Hope the lawyers were value for money as they have made no difference to me. In fact they have saved me cash as I now use a free search tool
Newzbin has introduced me and others to many programs/music files that we would have never heard of other wise. If I see some thing I like, then I can and go spend money on it. Because of Newzbin I and people I know have spent more on DVDs than we would have otherwise.
MPAA, if you wanna stop losing money stop making crap.
http://nzbmatrix.com
Sure is sad, I’ve been using them for a couple of years now. It’s been great! BIG THANKS & BEST WISHES goes out to them!!!
Good luck newzbin staff, we’ve all been thinking of you guys through this difficult time and will continue to no doubt through the difficult times you’ve got ahead. “Stiff upper lip” is what they tell ya in Britain, hope this is good advice.
so is their anything like newzbin?
I think everybody needs to calm down. So, they closed. Big deal. There is already another site in place, and more to come for sure. It always happens. So, it is not the end of the world, not even a slight setback.
In my book, they are gone today, forgotten tomorrow.
And people who want their money back is full within their rights to demand it because nobody is supposed to pay for Newzbin’s legal problems but Newzbin. The victims should now complain to paypal and credit card companies for services not delivered.
After all, Newzbin’s proud announcement was they were here to stay regardless….
RIP Newzbin
Thank you for all the hard work and service you have provided over the years you will be sorely missed topped up for over a year please use it to help in whatever way needed as for the cry babies who want their money back if they are that hard up then maybe they need another job or get a job period too bad those cry babies were members this site was way too good for them Good Luck in whatever the future may bring!!!!!
R.I.P. Newzbin, sniffle, sniffle! It boggles the mind that gathering search engine can be held accountable for others posting’s. I remember this happen to another site that I was contributor to, http://www.dvderotica.net, it also was shut down due to a law suit from the fagots at MPAA. These do not host files of any kind, they do not post files as well, they’re are just mere pointers if you will, gatherers of information to whats already available. It goes to show the lengths at which the MPAA/RIAA and the rest will go and are allowed to go without due process.
hell man look at youtube. these bass turds have all kinds of movies on their site in 10 min parts why isnt you tube getting sued? this is stupid
What I don’t understand is why they are giving up so easily?
Register a LLC in the Russian Republic, http://www.newzbin.ru ftw. I’d sign right back up. If they keep the old database they can even give all the whiners their credit back.
Give them their credits back and then ban them from ever using the site again for being greedy, disloyal, selfish, small minded, douche bags.
Let the newsgroups fall within this decade. Raise a false flag and change the internet forever.
TO ALL THE GUYS AT NEWZBIN THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR A WOUNDERFUL SITE THAT I HAVE USED FOR YEARS,HATE TO SEE YOU GO.
LOL that’s exactly what I said when the lawsuit began… I guess its not that simple.
Who’s to say they aren’t planning something already? Maybe put the old site back up on new host… and wait for another lawsuit. Or maybe a clone under new name. Or not. We’ll see. There are plenty of other indexers I guess. Newzbin was probably the best, but sh!t happens. I’m using NZBsRUs right now. It’s great since the foldernames are listed instead of custom names.
I also wonder about that, base out of Russia or some less restrictive country. Problem is, perhaps if you live in the UK, you could still be caught up in their justice system even if you are not running the operation from there? I’m not sure about the specifics of that.
Too bad it’s gone though, first Halo 2 on X-Box live gets taken away, now a few months later Newzbin as well. What is the world coming to?
“What I don’t understand is why they are giving up so easily?”
huh? They are over £230,000 (USD $332,783) in the hole just defending themselves and you think they gave up easily? Idiot.
The LLC is that much in the hole, idiot. That means that company is, for all purposes, done. They, personally, owe nothing. That’s the whole fucking POINT of an LLC, idiot.
I imagine that “newzbin.com” is owned by Newzbin Ltd, which faced with massive debts and no income pretty much had no choice but to call in the administrators, otherwise it would be facing yet another charge of trading while insolvent.
As the debts and the court case was brought against the company rather than the individuals running it, they are indeed more or less free to wander off and set up a new enterprise. The better question is, will they actually want to, now?
a little warning woulda been nice: I had hundreds of bookmarks. Oh well, it’s been great. Next!
…
Damnit, Newzbin!…
WE ALL TOOK NEWZBIN FOR GRANTED AND NOW REALISE THAT WHAT WE HAD WAS SOOOOOOOOOOO GOOOOOD
http://www.newzbin.ru ftw i tryed that link nothing comes up you sure posted right one lol
if so tell us how please
[…] Usenet indexer is linking to a blog post which has additional details on Newzbin’s […]
[…] Usenet indexer is linking to a blog post which has additional details on Newzbin’s […]
Epic sad. That is all.
Loved newzbin in conjunction with SABnzbd+ best combo ever.
Never downloaded anything illegal but for me nntp speed is way better than http for some reason and downloading some huge linux/unix DVD images was always a lot faster via nntp.
Hope there is gonna be a new newzbin type site soon (I won’t mind paying for it) that has as good integration into SABnzbd+ (where I just had to bookmark posts and my server at home would start the downloads automatically).
Goodbye, newzbin…I salute you.
OMG I’m shocked, I knew it was going to happen after the court case it was just a matter of time and it seems its that time is now.
R.I.P Newzbin thanks for the many wonderful downloads which I would never have purchased without a preview.
Shame you can’t or won’t release your code for the site, I for 1 would certainly take the reins and step in with a new site just a few legal aspects to consider so the same thing can’t happen again.
p.s
Post 140. Elvis – May 18, 2010
WTF get a life mate, Everyone who had credit on the site should be entitled to a refund, The service they have signed up to has not been completed so Newzbin are liable to either refund payments or face legal action again.
Could be a mass legal action against newzbin for not completing there part of the contract that people signed up to.
After the latest press articles detailing the massive income created by this site I am not at all impressed at the blatancy this company sprouted as to the site staying open to gain more money from customers.
Due to this fact I will be seeking a full refund from them even if I have to take legal action, they claimed that no matter what happens the site will not close then it closes after I have paid my money so they have failed in the contract.
I have screen captures of these posts to the site so have more than enough evidence if it ever gets to court.
Tough luck guys not enough on the ball to stop the crappy UK legal system hope you made some cash.
At an income of 1,000,000 someone somewhere has gotten very very fat and customers should be paid back for credit purchased.
As far as I am concerned I will take legal action against all who were responsible for the site until I receive a full refund of premiums paid.
George
sorry
read that wrong
well by looks thing are no sites out ther that do same content if any one knows where can pleas post as sitting here lost lol
Anyone know of a NBZ site that has SSL encryption?
What is a good list of alternatives?
I have been a member of newzbin for a looooooong time so I don’t even know that many other sites.
I used Newzleech.com and Binsearch.info because they had longer retention, however what I really liked about newzbin was the categories section. If I was just bored I could search through movies/games etc. that were already posted and choose something if I had nothing in mind. With sites like newzleech and binsearch, you pretty much need to know exactly what you are looking for. To anyone who responds, thanks in advance.
I absolutly love this site. I still hope they going to recover. I was happy enough to pay for a full year even though I was aware of the rumors. Thanks to the guys for the great work.
Although this was a UK site, many American subscribers feel the loss.
I hope they will remember this the next time some self-righteous, pseudo-Christian uses the term “lawyered-up” or blames their woes on Mexican immigration and welfare recipients.
I hope that when a “true Amerikan” defends police who demand identification or “papers” they will remember the demands for presentation of a “Draft Card” and the courts’ decision that this was UNREASONABLE SEARCH.
I hope that they’ll remember this when computers are confiscated under the guise of “Homeland Security”.
I hope that they’ll remember this when people are imprisoned for decades for “possession” of pornography” and then branded “pedophile” upon release.
GOVERNMENT AND BIG BUSINESS (AKA MPAA) IS NOT YOUR FRIEND.
(Nor the “celebrities that flaunt YOUR money on red carpets)
In America, we once understood this and that’s why people from all over the world waited years to come here.
We forgot the admonishment of Ike and the freedoms we were fighting for.
I hoped the UK would have had more spine.
Bravo…..
Sad sad day!!! Newzbin was the BEST usenet indexer around…
Oh well, I was watching far too much porn anyway!
Good luck for the future guys
This is awful. Newzbin was an incredible site. I wish the site owners and administrators all the best. Newzbin will be very, very sadly missed.
Well It was good while it last..See Newzbin should have took their severs
and let someone take-over Like another Country It’s one thing MPAA
hate is spending more money.. Farewell NB Thanks for makin it
possible to enjoy your web site!!!!!!!
Down with the MPAA.
They are a bunch of idiots anyway, do they really think they can win this war?, keep pissing their money away on court cases that the defendant can never pay lol.
Try getting a proper job ffs (an that applies to the lawyers as well).
Very sad to see NewzBin closed!!! Was using it for 5 years and was very satisfied with it!!! Hope to see alternative of NewzBin soon))) Although there a few good usenet site that I use besides NewzBin but they not so good organized, categorized as NewzBin….
RIP NewzBin & Newzxxx!!!
I have … strike that .. had been using Newzbin for over 3 years and had a hefty number of paid days left on my membership. However, I’m amused by the amount of people who are so surprised Newzbin was shut down.
Really now, how can you not see that it was inevitable from the moment they started charging people for the service? It was such a flawed and risky business model that, to be honest, it is surprising (the only thing that is actually surprising) that they took so many years to make it happen … it was pretty swift when it happened, but late to my expectations nonetheless. I knew it would happen ever since i paid my 1st subscription (but hell, it was cheap and made my leeching easier).
The moment you start profiting based on a service that can be twisted to be used for illegal purposes is the moment you start going downhill, regardless of whether you’re actually targeting/condoning/supporting/enabling illegal activities or not. You may not like it, in which case you may continue barking at the MPAA, RIAA etc.
Yeah, the code could be released as open source but if I was Newzbin I wouldn’t do that. The codebase they built could be used for something more worthwhile for them, e.g. a profitable company (which does not smell illegal) rather than 100 nzb websites which would continue to “index” 99% illegal material … even though, as a user, I would much prefer the latter.
Why has no one asked ..” What happens to the users of newzbin..
With the MPAA come afte the users… ????
THIS SUCKS!! NEWZBIN WAS AWESOME!! IM GUNNA MISS YOU BUDDY : (
I had almost a year left on my account. I don’t really mind losing the money. Please tell them the best way to serve me (and at the same time screw the “industries”) is to release the source code.
RIP newzbin. We didn’t know each other for very long but DAMN it was a good ride. I wish I had topped my months more to help support these guys.
For all the years that Newsbin provided information to us we should be thankful. As far as payments that had gone to them I for one would be willing to send them a contribution to help them out of their debt. I for one got way more from them than what I gave them in money.
Good Luck guys from Newsbin, keep your head up for years just think you were on top. There are thousands that have tried and can’t say that, unfortunantly all things come to an end.
Sad, sad day. Thanks Newzbin for everything! I get a kick out of some of the assholes wanting their credits back! How much money has newzbin save you shitheads??
What happens to the users of NEwzbin.com
Will the MPAA come after them…
*** SORRY IF THIS POST COMES UP A FEW TIMES ***
Everytime I hit ‘say it’ it kicks me out and i dont see my post..
sorry in advanced
I’d say it would be far too complex and expensive to go after the users.
Really not worth worrying about.
It’s also impossible to prove that you downloaded anything other than an NZB file. The fact you have the NZB does not by any means prove you downloaded the content indexed in that file. They’d have no case.
Im back to the grand daddy of all indexing sites http://www.binnews.com
Also if you can find out, did they (are they) clear their logs? Are users protected?
Two points
1) The software Industry is certainly losing money from me now. Part of my daily routine was looking through the index of apps indexed on Newzbin and the amount of programs I downloaded that I had never heard of and found useful is endless. If they were useful and updated, I bought them – not anymore as their free advertisement has gone.
2) Anyone asking for their credit back needs to take stock of what complete and utter tw@ts they are. Bigger issues here than your measly couple of quid you f***wits
RIP newzbin. In the meanwhile we can all use
http://www.nzbsrus.com/
I guess is not exactly the same quality but you have 5 dwl a day free and is doing the job. Plus it has user comments. Give it a try or post here a better alternative!!
RE: Joe Moon – May 18, 2010
Y’all should be lucky they don’t pull them user logs and cc transactions and start suing the ever loving bejesus out of you. NEWZBIN LOGGED EVERYTHING and now they will be forced to turn them over.
I would hope they would not do that to us.
If you read the news section on Newzbin they said that they didn’t keep logs
Even if everything you said were true (which it isn’t), downloading NZB files isn’t illegal, you mouthbreathing trolling idiot.
NEWZBIN ADMINS!! Please open source your code. Let us run with it. You will not regret it.
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Sad day 😥
dont hit gingadaddys site thats going now
I’ve been with newzbin for just about 7 years now. Been really good to us… just too bad about symantics and junk. They’ve never hosted any content, only indexed the headers. Its a community that is being demolished here. Really too bad… RIP.
Paid my money to Newzbin for many years and was glad to do it. Now I guess it is back to updating the headers twice daily after I remember all the groups I dl from. Makes me want to dl as much copyrighted material as I can to show them IT IS STILL THERE AND CAN STILL BE SHARED regardless. Those idiots must be still using pagers to contact one another. It’s the 21st century, start evolving or ask your GOD to create a STOP button so we can’t do it anymore! Evolve that is!!!
Good bye sweet prince.
I don’t want to read one more douchebag asking for his money back….
By looking at the sites we’re left with its obvious why we paid for it in the first place. So don’t say you never got your money’s worth!
RIP Newzbin fun while it lasted.
Wow sad day indeed. I have been a customer since 2004 and will miss this site very much. I hope the credits go to good use. You have provioded years of enjoyment and fantastic service. Newzbin will be missed for sure. Yes take up a collection I will donate to them. Newzbin has been there for us and for years so lets help them out. If anyone see’s a fund for them post it here. They helped us lets help them.
I may be a noob compared to some of the veterans on the site however i use Newsleecher which i think most people do, im unsure. however is it possible to use any other sites while still implementing newzleecher to act as the downloading program? Cheers mate and this is a sad day for an Usenet users. Ive been a member for years now.
I knew I should have downloaded those bookmarks. Damn.
RIP Newzbin. You will be sorely missed.
who are you ass holes asking for your money back.
what we need is a good new place to screw MPAA and keep them from getting money give me movies and PROGRAMS!
That sucks! Sorry the got @#$!ed so bad. They were a great site!
RIP newzbin this site isn’t as good but it’s decent http://www.nzbsrus.com/
but I will certainly miss newzbin
It doesn’t take much thought reflecting on the days of loading headers, waiting and searching to realize that the first nzb file I used from newzbin was easily worth a year or more of their small fee. That’s just one nzb file. Many thanks newsbin.com, it was a great ride.
i cant believe all the people out there moaning about the loss of days and credit. when a company such as newzbin is being sued for hundreds of thousands of dollars. that provided everyone that has listed here with a service of such excellence. we should all turn our attentions to the mpa for infringing our rights to a freedom of infomation and also i am sure that over the years we have all had our monies worth of support and downloadable content of this site if anything we should now be helping newzbin to get back onto their feet and fight for thier right to stay online ….
Protip: making money off pirates makes you an even bigger target.
They never took more that $12 at a time it seemed. Considering all the free stuff I got still a bargain. Goddamn J$ws in hollywood. Fuck you whining shits. It was good while it was. Like Napster.
Jebus, everyone bitching about a few bucks. Seriously. I think I paid about $40 US over the last 4-5 years for a service I used daily. SFW if I had paid for another year in advance. It’s peanuts compared to what I got out of it. Stop farking whining.
That being said, I’d like to see Newzbin rise again in a different domain (and country). There are a ton of NZB sites that do the same things…but Newzbin was the easiest to use.
RIP Newzbin…you were great while you lasted.
The best thing about newzbin was they made it easy for two things….A computer dvr when using NZBTV, and for searching usenet either raw or condensed for the stuff that hadn’t been quite indexed yet. Plus I love how they were consistent with the naming of things.
Dang, even newzxxx.com is down too!
[I jest, I jest]
Seriously tho – we all saw this coming, but it still sucks and I’m gonna miss Newzbin! -I hope the guys come through okay!!
This Blows cocks!!!!!!! Newzbin should make a new site or something else. But where should we download Nzbs now??
America was stolen by some greedy c|_|nts. I am ashamed to live amongst the no brain zombies that believe in the crap they are spoon-fed in this nation.
WTF are these greedy corporations gonna do after they lay everyone off and no one can afford to consume their crap “entertainment”
people say they busted there ass to keep going? we don’t know what was actually said or done near the end. It seemed like they were restricted on listing items in the movie / TV section etc apparently?.
so why close completley, I noticed the admins never responded to any questions from users in the last 2 weeks?
It was a good service, and I used it alot for 6 years, but they made there £££ out of it, a million in the last year isn’t bad even with legal fees to be paid.
We don’t even know wether they were fined ? or if they had to keep quiet whilst any further judgements may of been made.
It would be nice to know exactly why they closed shop, especially the newzxxx.com domain?
Guys, who is Newzbin paying those huge sums of compensation for? They are supposed to make good for the loss of business for the industry, a loss that occurred because users, including those people like those indignantly demanding their few pence back, have used the service and downloaded material that the industry, as a result, sold less. So Newszin pays for their loss of projected income sue to such downloads, not for running the site as such. Now, in many contexts, fownloaders or commercial material have been put to court and fined, but in this caese, the only object of criminal proceedings was Newzbin, the site, as such. Newzbin have never given out names and anyway, the inductry naturally prefers bringing down a site more than its users. But what those punished paied for when they payed their legal team and what they now are supupose dto pay astronomical sums for, probaably for the rest of their lives, is not the site as such but how it was used by users: as a means to find and download content that they’d need to pay for in a shop. That includes users like those that now become indignant and want a few pennies back – what a bunch of cheap, narrowly, pathologically self-centered greedy, tunnel-vison, good-for-nothings! These are cases where I’d actually prefer people of that type of personality were to be tried as indivicuals, had to pay for their own defense, then go through all the trouble and, in the end, get fined and pay those compensations form their own pockets. Their share of the total could then be taken off the total compensation Newzbin’s expected required to pay. In return, they would of course, get their credits back, though I’m not sure it will get them far. Hell, it probably wouldn;’t cover for the Bus Fare to find a lawer…
Rather than thinking of getting or money back, we should rather try to see how thigns develop and offer to donate money so that, if it really remains so bad, the people who offered us this service for so long, may not have to pay the rest of their lives for offering us a service that might have lost the industry some money which they now want back from Newzbin. They lsot that money to us, of course, not Newzbin. So if anything, we should be thinking of supporting the guys to get out of the mess, rather than sticking the knife deeper by burdingine them with demands for micromanagement of tiny amounts of credict which, anyway, considering the amount of debt theyr’re in, they can in all likeliness illafford to justify paying back users, who are who costed the media industry money in the first place, rather than the industry who’ve won the legal confrontation.
Lets keep a minute of silence in remembrance of newzbin. Indeed it is a sad day, as it is another large oppressive move from the lawyers. It it worrisome what will be next.
As for all you guy complaining of the money you paid newzbin, SHUT UP. It wasn’t that much, and everyone knew of their circumstances. They still have a troubled road to follow.
Oh Men That Sukz!
Sucks that they’re gone.
Sucks that they ganked a lot of our dough.
Sun comes up tomorrow morning.!
use http://www.binsearch.info/, it’s free and works ok
All Welcome Here
http://www.nzb-forum.com
Im off to this site looks cool
http://www.nzb-forum.com
Im off to this site as it look pretty cool why not take look yourself …………www.nzb-forum.com
it is deffo a sad day
i stumbled accross another usenet index the other day while browsing, its no newzbin but it sure is good
the staff are friendly and theres no charges what so ever to sign up or download the nzb files indexed there and theres fresh content posted all the time
go visit i bet you`ll all be impressed http://www.nzb-forum.com
further to my last message about http://www.nzb-forum.com, they had a promo lastnight and i bagged free lifetime vip status
apparently these promos happen all the time there as a way to reward their members for sticking with them
Bart Simpson said it best: “This both sucks and blows.”
I had a year and some in credits left…so what the service paid for itself in the first few weeks as I found my old hard to find tv shows
but I would happily give a few more dollars to just ease their burden.
I was a member for years and will miss it greatly
sad, sad day…
back to 15 min to find and dload it insted of 15 sec….
either way ill still dload it…
losers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Ugh I’m so upset this has happened but seriously thanks so much to the newzbin mods for giving us this service for as long as they could. You guys are legends. Fuck the MPAA!
Oh no… they are going to pull the logs and come after me for downloading nzb files I have to go hide, oh wait thank god I live in a country where NZB files are legal!
The King is Dead! Long live the King!
Hats off to people at Newzbin, For years you gave me a great service at a great price!
My only regret is that I did not top up my account at the end… actually you guys won’t see a cent of whith those leaches attacking you so screw that and FUK the MPA, they don’t deserve my money!
So they did keep logs and will or have turned them over?
if they needed help to pay their debts id def chip in. I’ve been using the site for years and im pretty sad to see it go.
I am so sorry to hear that.. I guess they just happened to be out of luck. It is nothing new about pirate software online. Anyone with half a brain will NEVER EVER EVER need to purchase any software at all with the exception of businesses. Seeing them losing the case have proven absolutely NOTHING at all but providing an opportunity to pick up what they have left off.
Thanks again for providing us great service over the years
I am so sorry to hear that.. I guess they just happened to be out of luck. It is nothing new about pirate software online. Anyone with half a brain NEVER EVER EVER need to purchase any software at all with or without Newzbinz. Only difference is, it is much faster using their site. Seeing them losing the case have proven absolutely NOTHING at all but providing an opportunity for someone else to pick up what they have left off.
Thanks again for providing us great service over the years
some alternative?
SO many wankers worrying about their little pittance of an investment for the excellent service that newzbin provided for everyone for years asking how to get refund. Get a life losers.
I say everyone should gladly give up the little money they think is owed to them as a contribution to newzbin.
well, if the MPA thinks people are going to pay just because some indexing site is gone, think again.
one word…. FUCK!
What a shame, however I do see an opening in another big player!
Fuck the MPA!!!!!!!
A sad day today, now that the geeks are mad we will down load twice as much movie, same & software and last music. NEWZBIN best service ever.
Ahh shit. Man it was great. I started using other indexing sites.. but its not the same. WTF is wrong with people asking for refunds?? Are u fuck & mentals?
I wish they would let us log in just to export our saved search parameters.
you know whats so sad guys is that newzbin staff are now out of a job . and in this climate its just so damm wrong . and they are now facing a huge fine and a huge debt for something that was harmless to everyone . its not like they were actually putting the downloadable content all they were doing was listing was was on various servers including some that we actually pay for like out cable providers that actually we can download using any clilent if we are willing to surf through the various zips and rars etc. newzbin i am sorry to see you go its been real nice being a member of your site for many years now you guys have provided me with hours of fun and information and have really made a great impact on my knowledge of computers and also how i use my computer .dont let the sods keep you down and i am sure as every one here has stated if you need a a donation then we all would be gladly to help …. the goverment and rules suck ass. rich just get richer …and one last note for all the ppl out there moaning about the loss of credits . get a life will ya you got so much for free . let newzbin have something for nothing considering they have just lost everything they had .
LOL @ nzbmatrix servers overloaded right now
omg nooooo!!
Anyone else going to miss newzxxx.com?
Man that sucks. Give me the code. I can hosted securely. The government will never find the true hosting place. Go mod_rewrite, proxy apache, ssh tunnels. Contact me!
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Fagz!! WTF!!
It’s a shame. MPAA and their ilk are paying millions suing companies over copyright infringement and then charging their customers to cover those costs. I had 250 days left in my account and I could care less. I got that back in a week of downloads. So the people that are whining about their not getting a refund.. as others have said it far better than I could… STFU you miserable losers.
If the MPAA machine would make their content available online in the same way that Newsbin did I’d sign up if the price was reasonable. Look at NetFlix.. $8.95 for a ton of stuff each month. The only problem is, I don’t want to wait 6 months or a year later to see shows or have to sit through brain numbing idiot commercials. That was the reason Newsbin was so great.
Not to excuse the MPAA for this action (because we know they are a bunch of greedy bastards) but I believe it’s tough to find creative solutions when everyone from the actors and unions to the executives want a bigger piece of a shrinking pie. But for crying out loud.. this is the 21st century.. get with the program and work it out and make your customers happy instead of wasting time alienating them with actions that are not going to net you a single dime. Because if anyone at the MPAA thinks that by shutting down Newsbin, we’re all going to run out and buy your DVD’s.. then y’all are dumber than we ever imagined.
’nuff said
i know everyone loves to freak out and stuff but quit posting names of other halfway decent sites here. you ever heard of “stop snitching” ?
people are against this thing we like to do so everyone stfu, use the other outlets you know
bye
Newzbin Alternatives
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gingadaddy.net
merlins-portal.net
nzbsrus.com
nzbmatrix.com
http://www.nzb-magic.com
freedomtoshare.com/nzbeez/
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nzb-dogz[DOT]com
gingadaddy[DOT]net
merlins-portal[DOT]net
nzbsrus[DOT]com
nzbmatrix[DOT]com
nzb-magic[DOT]com
freedomtoshare[DOT]com/nzbeez/
Those cocky morons have only themselves to blame and their atrocious legal team. They were toast from the issuing of the judges verdict. What do expect with an inept reply by Caesium aka Mr. Elsworth such as this:
[quote]
# I am satisfied that Mr Elsworth well knew that these categories were primarily intended for new commercial films. The position was confirmed a little later when Mr Elsworth was asked about a post in January 2007 in these terms: “looks like were going to need Blu-Ray attributes as Blu-Ray has been cracked officially”. Mr Elsworth accepted that he suspected that it meant that a way to make a copy of a Blu-Ray had been developed and then the following interchange took place (on Day 2 at 134):
Q. Yes. And you need a category for Blu Ray, or we need a category for Blu Ray, because Blu Ray has been cracked so now people will be copying movies off of Blu Ray so you need to deal with those. That’s what this post means, doesn’t it?
A. That does look like what that post means, yes.
Q. So that person has copyright infringement in mind?
A. No, I would not say that person had copyright infringement in mind. I would say that person looks like he just wants to report Blu Rays. He cites a reason for adding the Blu Ray category as they are being cracked but he does not cite a specific intention to report copyrighted Blu Rays.
Q. Well, what else would it be?
A. I don’t know.
Q. Why would it be Blu Rays that would need cracking?
A. I don’t know.
Q. You can’t come up with any explanation other than a copyright-protected commercial movie, can you?
A. No.
# In short, Mr Elsworth was unable to provide any explanation other than copyright infringement. [/quote]
nzbmatrix is down…..
this is why i hate seeing forum posts about usenet. more and more people are using it, and it gets more exposure.
😦
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First off – everyone freaking out needs to chill about closing of Newsbin. Usenet and NNTP is not nor will ever die. The **AA just knocked over the biggest hornet’s nest it could find but if history teaches us anything in these matters, one goes down and several will be born from the ashes. You can be assured that where there is a will there will be a way. There will always be more of “us” than those who oppose us. Fair use was stripped away for most so pirates we became – so be it. If you really want to send a message back for these actions then I suggest the following: DO NOT supoort MPAA/RIAA lobbied industry. DO NOT buy bluray, DVD and CDs. Cancel your cable and satellite subscription. If you want to support your favorite content provider then find a way to do it directly. We want to be rid of these people. Finally, teach the noobs. Your brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, friends, everyone how to pirate digital content. Give them the power to “infringe” and send a clear message. We will stop pirating the second we die.
I loved the service and my hats off to these gents and ladies for their hard work. Screw the man
Unfrtuante loss,
Can the moderator please tell me why they have been deleting my list of alternative sites?! Why not share the love then, dont do what the MPIAA want and shut out all these people?
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WOOOHOOOOO
torrents
where am i going to get all my porn!
yeah, this is bullshit……also, nzbmatrix is down again…wtf
Is the NZBMATRIX 404 Error connected..wonder if they had thr frightners put on them too.
For those of you worried sick about the user database, here is Newzbin’s post a while back on this matter:
“Server logs and user activity Some subscribers are a little concerned about privacy in the light of the current litigation so to put their minds at rest we thought we would explain what the privacy implications are of our logs. We are currently keeping webserver logs for a period which is sufficient to allow us to defend ourselves against web attacks. However we cannot tell from our logs what NZBs you have downloaded. At all. If we can’t do this then neither can any complainant with access to our logs. Furthermore we rotate old logs so that they are deleted. No request has been made for our logs during the discovery phase of litigation and due to the nature of the legal process that request would have to have been made a long time ago: it wasn’t. They cannot now, legally, have it; and moreover they dont actually seem that interested either. The fact is this: they are gunning for Newzbin not you. Bottom line: We cannot tell anyone what NZBs you have been using whether those are for Linux distros, porn or just embarrassing lawful material. Don’t worry.”
Rest easy. Also, I did some research and see no indication of the RIAA or MPAA going after users with lawsuits en masse. Remember, Usenet is a download only medium, not an uploading one where content is distributed from users like P2P.
I’m sure the mpaa is celebrating like idiots. I just opened 6 more nzb index sites in my browser and found what I wanted without losing even 1 second of time.
The more you fight the more you’ll lose.
There will be 1000+ nzb index sites using open source code in the next week. 10000 by the week after.
It’s not about stealing your content, it’s about being able to use it when and how I want to. The days of having iron clad control over content are long gone. Wake up and join the rest of us in reality.
Server logs and user activity Some subscribers are a little concerned about privacy in the light of the current litigation so to put their minds at rest we thought we would explain what the privacy implications are of our logs. We are currently keeping webserver logs for a period which is sufficient to allow us to defend ourselves against web attacks. However we cannot tell from our logs what NZBs you have downloaded. At all. If we can’t do this then neither can any complainant with access to our logs. Furthermore we rotate old logs so that they are deleted. No request has been made for our logs during the discovery phase of litigation and due to the nature of the legal process that request would have to have been made a long time ago: it wasn’t. They cannot now, legally, have it; and moreover they dont actually seem that interested either. The fact is this: they are gunning for Newzbin not you. Bottom line: We cannot tell anyone what NZBs you have been using whether those are for Linux distros, porn or just embarrassing lawful material. Don’t worry.
fuckin tightwad crybabies crying for credit. what a bunch of pathetic losers. they think they paid real money and demand satisfaction. fuckin trailer trash ass fuck homos.
Long Live Newzbin! I dearly loved my Newzbin and gladly donate my remaining credits to their cause. I agree that the site was well designed but the secret sauce was the community of editors who kept the files tagged and categorized. I suggest that the same community needs to organize the exodus to a worthy successor. Any ideas?
Not only am I *not* upset about losing my “credit” with them, I wanted to “top up” after they stopped taking payments just to donate to the cause. Fortunately, in the Internet, a void doesn’t last for long. Someone will pick up the mantle. Hopefully they put their servers someplace that will tell the MPAA to go fuck themselves.
R.I.P Newzbin May 2010
I went ahead and paid for an extra year even though I knew they didnt have a good chance against the MPA. I am fine with Newzbini keeping my money.
However, I did suggest on the board that if the money is going to be paid to the MPAA that I would like a refund. I dont know mind putting money towards their council (which did a horrible job) but I dont want the money I paid going to the MPA.
The MPA is using extortion to get more money out of it’s biggest clients.
I own a large collection of VHS, Laserdisc, DVD, and Blu Ray but the Big Three Media companies keep coming out with different formats (3DTV now) and expects people to keep paying top dollar for the same product and yet feel that DRM is fine.
I am all for people purchasing (or renting via Netflix) but the MPA needs to get with the times and realize many people have a better experience in their living room with a nice home theater system and would be glad to pay for new releases if they could them legally.
The Netflix Streaming HD movies is a start but their selection is too limited due to the outrageous price Hollywood wants for the rights to the movies.
The MPA is in a situation they cannot win. They cannot sue everyone and need to look at their business model and adjust as the Record Indsutry did.
Charge people about $40 dollars a month to watch unlimited movies even if via streaming in HD with a godo choice and many people will be thrilled with that.
They cannot stop piracy so the best option is to compete with a superior product and a legal way for people to watch new releases at home.
This is the same company that tried to stop the VCR because they were worried people would record shows.
Time to get with the 20th century and then move into the 21st century like everyone else has.
its a shame usenet search engine fined…..whos next google for holding links to downloads of copyright material?
What gives the MPA the right to whine about what other countries do? I live in the USA. All i have to say is FUCK MPA AND ITS CRYBABY CRAP! NEWZBIN ROCKS! Hope my way of expressing myself didnt offend anyone.
Ok Let me get this straight…some of you want to sue the Newzbin guys for your money?? I would love to see that court case. “Illegal downloader sues company for $30 or less… Why don’t you write to the feds and just hand over your name too.
These guys provided us with a great service. They have been done and probably need every penny to pay their debts so please keep my subscription may it go to keeping your heads above water and out of jail..
To the whiners Legal copies are now available at your local store…now we talking big bucks!!!
RIP Newzbin
per “http://www.usenetshack.com/newzbin-reaches-end-its-hearing-court-verdict-expected-around-easter/”
The second point is user privacy. One thing the Claimants did complain about was that Newzbin “deliberately arranged it’s systems so that no user details were available: even if we got an Anton Pillar there would be nothing to seize as no logs were kept”. They were correct on that. No user needs worry about their privacy being violated by logs. Equally, since the site has lawful non-infringing use (our hunch is that the judge accepted our arguments on this: he seemed receptive to our submission that GPL, Creative Commons & non-copyright works were on the Indexes) a mere membership of Newzbin proves nothing against any user: the Claimants didn’t contend this anyway.
Until Newzbin comes back, if they do. You can use newsleecher to look for what you are looking for.
Thanks Newzbin staff, for supplying a proper index of the Usenet. I really appreciate all you did over the past years, and I hope that this deal with the MPA doesn’t fuck up your lives too badly. I gladly donate my remaining 700 days of credit to your legal costs, and wish I could do more.
Please note that you have a large group of supporters, and should you decide to re-establish Newzbin in another country, under a different domain, we will follow you. Thanks for everything.
R.I.P.
Claimants did complain about was that Newzbin “deliberately arranged it’s systems so that no user details were available: even if we got an Anton Pillar there would be nothing to seize as no logs were kept”. They were correct on that. No user needs worry about their privacy being violated by logs.
a mere membership of Newzbin proves nothing against any user: the Claimants didn’t contend this anyway.
Claimants did complain about was that Newzbin “deliberately arranged it’s systems so that no user details were available: even if we got an Anton Pillar there would be nothing to seize as no logs were kept”. They were correct on that. No user needs worry about their privacy being violated by logs.
a mere membership of Newzbin proves nothing against any user: the Claimants didn’t contend this anyway.
Claimants did complain about was that Newzbin “deliberately arranged it’s systems so that no user details were available: even if we got an Anton Pillar there would be nothing to seize as no logs were kept”. They were correct on that. No user needs worry about their privacy being violated by logs.
a mere membership of Newzbin proves nothing against any user: the Claimants didn’t contend this anyway.
FUCKKKKK they even had to shut down newzxxx. Now where do I get my smut from, they had it so nicely categorized.
Nzbnation.com is a clone but looks inactive the last item posted is 3 weeks ago, and the last comments from the webhost is from 2008. But it looks alot like newzbin maybe someone can hack thier source code and create a active clone.
LoL – about time this went down. Have been fighting for this in a long time. Complained and handwritten letters to MPAA for years. Now next site will be on my mind. Such as Nzbmatrix.
Btw. Cant be compared to google. Google doesnt make such list or such searchengine.
Glad this has come to an end. Bye
Your a ahole!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you would do something constructive Ya little girl.No one tells you to go to these sites!!!! Remember what comes around goes around YOU FREEKIN AHOLE SUCK WAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don’t feed the troll.
Claimants did complain about was that Newzbin “deliberately arranged it’s systems so that no user details were available: even if we got an Anton Pillar there would be nothing to seize as no logs were kept”. They were correct on that. No user needs worry about their privacy being violated by logs.
a mere membership of Newzbin proves nothing against any user: the Claimants didn’t contend this anyway.
Fuckin Rip off. I hope they sue these motherfuckers into bankruptcy. I just renewed for a year before they stopped renewals and when I messaged them they said all was ok.
Gonna contact my CC company and file a complaint as well.
its sad to see them shutdown. but i’ve been using NZBmatrix for awhile now. but the problem now is NZBmatrix is overloaded with people downloading from there. the server is down and i need my FIX soon.
I’ve google a few alternative to this problem of ours and found
https://www.gingadaddy.net/index.php
http://www.freedomtoshare.com/nzbeez/forumdisplay.php?f=23
and
http://www.nzbtvseeker.com/ which is free and no need to sign up for anything. but still needs a lot of work. i think this the future and we should support it.
Riaa mpaa are corrupt for ever
Some of you relate this to losing a good friend,
I agree… Today is a sad day…
If money is what it takes to get Newzbin back up, I’m sure it would have it’s supporters; I know I would try to help out a community that gave so much.
Anyone looking for their money back are idiots (and ingrates). The Payment Terms explicitly stated they kept no records of the payment information. This was touted as a good thing because, if they were hacked or lost a court case, they could not identify their customers. An obvious side effect is that they themselves have no way of knowing who their customers are either. Because of this it is technically impossible to refund any money because they don’t know who is owed anything. The only way yo get your money back, you whiners, is to in effect self-identify to the MPAA, you want that?
I’ll miss Newzbin, I never pay for anything additional, Newzbin was the exception.
sad sad day
Fight the new world order! Newzbin wasn’t offering files for download just indexes that shouldn’t be illegal. Corporations are using the united states government to get what they want. In this case exerting force on a British court. It’s called fascism. USA is the center of it all. Fight the police state!
thank you newzbin for everything , i dont mind loosin some bucks you guyz rock men
gudluck
I am going to CRY…
I always thought Newzbin would triumph over this bollocks, it’s a damn shame.
If they’d open source the site code things might not be so bleak for us. It’s not like it’s any use to them now anyway.
Sad times indeed 😦
whoever said they were giving up this easily?
i remember several years ago there was a NFO posting site called ISOnews (or something similar. its been a long time)
they were sued, and instead of dealing with the long drawn out process they closed their doors
magically within a few days a link to another site (nfohump) appeared, and was very similar to the isonews code.
a public display can be far different than whats happening behind the scenes.
Very sad. You guys were the best. You will be greatly missed. I can’t believe anyone is griping about a few dollars (in my case) lost. We know you guys tried your best at great personal cost (both financial and emotional). Thank you for the good years you were around. All the best in the future…
Sorry for the addtional post but I see people slamming on people who request a refund. I for one did not request a refund but would prefer one if the money is going straight to the MPA. I dont mind if it is going to council and operating expenses.
However, it is not a lot of money even if someone renewed for a year, I do think NEWZBIN SHOULD REFUND MONEY if requested.
I am sorry but this is just good business. Just because someone asked for a refund does not make them a jerk.
A lot of people were very dissapointed in the fact that Newzbin mocked the MPA on their website during the trial and told their attorneys how to argue the case instead of letting the attorney handle the legal battle in their way.
Newzbin can keep my money for about 1 year rrrmaining but lets not slam thosoe who request refunds.
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nzbmatrix down??
it was good while it lasted but i dont understand all the debt
i understand they now ow leagal fees and most likly a fine but a company that boasted 1/4 a million memebers world wide the sums dont add up as they must of been loaded
i was a memeber for 8 years
£17 member ship a year X 250,000 = £8,840,000 per year cash + there comision from giga news what a cash flow
with a 250,000 fine and half a million in debt they should be able to clear that with easy
i think some of that money must of been swifted away some ware
as like pirate bay they will be back or basking in the costa del in the sun from the proffits
nbzmatrix.com aint working… i wonder why hmm
A very disappointing, although not entirely unexpected, outcome.
A great service terminated by the greed of the movie industry.
But look at some of the posts, here – pathetic
‘I’ve been scammed’, ‘I want my money back’ – like a load of screaming babies albeit possibly with less intelligence!
Disgraceful…..
I am trying to get to Nzbmatrix.com it keep comming up address not there. Anyone else gettinng this?
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I had 255 days left, but man, I just don’t care, they took what little they asked for to try and fight for us, so they can keep whatever I didn’t use, it’s really not a thang for me or my friends who enjoyed using Newzbin. We will miss you greatly Newzbin, I just hope someone who stole your source code will share it as freely as you guys helped us, it’s the right thing to do, hehe.
RIP NEWSBIN… Where am i going to get all my crap from now! As for my credit, keep it. I feel i owe them for some reason. Fuck all you bottom feeders who want your 3$ of credit back. i hope your heads explode.
I agree, they didn’t ask for a lot and we all got WAY more, so please guys, let this go and not let Newzbin go down as some bad guys, they really aren’t.
I took advantage of the ‘Christmas sale’ to top-up another year, eyes wide open, I looked on the money then as I do now – a donation to the cause.
Very sad day but this is what the big corporations do, they don’t need to win legaly (?) – just bankrupt their targets – and THAT is supposed to be legal!!!
Makes me want to spit!
Many thanks to all involved with Newzbin, sorry for all our loss
L.
has nzb matrix gone down ?
Good luck to the newzbin creators. Hope everything works out for them. Sad to see the site go after so many years of working well.
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RIP Newzbin, and thank you for your amazing website!! It made life a whole lot easier.
Oh, and all those losers whining about their lost credit: go and cry to your mommy…..
I don’t understand how they ever got shut down.
First off they didn’t host nor supply any illegal downloads of any sort. All they did was provide a “visual road map” of Usenet. If you gave someone directions to a drug dealers house, that doesn’t make you a buyer or a seller just someone giving directions.
It’s obvious that someone “created” some new laws to give them the power they needed and it’s just a shame that type of control exist in this country.
As for the “logs” who give a shit. So I downloaded some “NZB’s”… Doesn’t mean I used them. Good luck proving that one in court Mr. Fed.
It’s rediculous because here in the US, piratebay.org is throwing up their middle fingers to the entertainment industry, and they actually make money off advertising. Newzbin was a collection of movie, music, and television lovers. I feel like an addict who’s detoxing. Sick.
sad sad day brought a tear to my eye ..
thanks to all the admin that made the site great
and to all the community that posted comments up to keep informed of viruses ..
the next best thing is newz r us .. google it register and its free
cheers
Fuck, fuck, FUCK THE POLICE!
While this is sad, it’s not like there aren’t a bunch of other sites doing the exact same thing. I realize a person gets attached to their community, but just move on. Newzbin has fought and lost. Just move on to another site, or a clone that pops up.
These days, you can get a lifetime VIP subscription to an NZB site for <$20 (one time fee). So move on and be happy you are now paying less money for better service.
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Good Luck to all the guys at newzbin HQ hope you provide another service like this again soon Hat off to you all 🙂 had a years Cred left but hey You did me proud over all the years i’ve been a member, everyone else who wants a refund should not be bothered about the price of a couple a packets a fags cos thats all it cost on a yearly basis. Once again GOOD LUCK GUYS :0)
very day day .thanks for all the good times guys
shame to see it go
I don’t want my money back, but Arnold sort of has a point
Newzbin wasn’t some sort small-time operation with a bloke in his bedroom doing the site out of the goodness of his heart.
The company made ****loads of money, the people running the company got a ****load of money and the chances are the MPAA won’t get their fine because the people running the company have taken it all (their accounts are in the publoc domain – just see how much they’ve had in the bank)
I loved Newzbin but please don’t make them out to be some sort of saint – they were a business that enjoyed the good times and now it’s all over
i had ayear of credit left and ffs guys how much free sh*t you got from there then you dare moan ya nake me sick!!!
i been using the new site http://www.nzblistings.com seems really good for phone apps and tv and still building so it seems
There can be no good without evil..No love without hate..No heaven without hell..No light without darkness..The harmony of the universe depends upon an eternal balance..Out of the struggle to maintain this balance comes the birth of ledgends…….rest in peace newzbin you will be missed
Newzbin is died but homie.in (http://www.homie.in) is still alive!
i was a editor for newzbin a few years back and they was a great bunch of guys dam shame it had to end like this
RIP newzbin
They are other decent nxb sites out there or raw searching is a option
but nothing like newzbin
cheers jay
They were turning over a million so pretty sure they can pay off what they owe and goto monte carlo for a few months.
Don’t believe all the bs, they are loaded and cut their losses with a lot left over.
they owe 500k to a software house! they got ripped off, we could write their site for 10k
Sad,
well this is what I am using now:
NzbMatrix & Nzbs.org
This is a damms shame our stupid english laws are surpressing the rights of the users of these type of sites.
This being the case i recommend people to sign up with another service that is not covered by english law like newzbin were as they were based in London i believe.
Heres a useful link to help you find a new usernet group
http://www.topnzbsites.com/
I cant believe so many people are talking about refunds?!
It was an incredible site and would have saved you the money otherwise, anyway, with the compmnay owing over 700k i dont think they are going to get around to refunding your money!
Just thank them and wish them good luck, it wasnt their fault users posted illegal content, why should they get the blame?
It is all lies.
The software doesn’t cost $700K.
There are other search engines with much higher retention (which is the main complexity factor here) written by couple of guys in their spare time.
They just took the loot and run away.
no newzxxx anymore? How do i get my computersex??? I need computersex!!!! I pay prostitute but she no Blu RAY
newzbin was the best and the biggest I have been with them for years and very sorry to see them go, I just hope the rest dont follow suit.
RIP newzbin you will always be rembered
Fermec
To everyone talking about refunds – get a life.
Sad day indeed. Thanks for everything guys and good luck…..
Everyone deserve their money back.
Other than regular users, newzbin ripped off a lot of people. They made big profits from the piracy and now they got what they deserve.
Good bye and good riddance newzbin, there are much better NZB sites available.
First Pirate Bay went down and now Newzbin, whats going down next? Your mum – coz that shit should be illegal OW OW OW OH NO HE DIDNT
Forget that money, i will no have refunds!
I want my downloads!
this is really sad news guys, really fucking sad news
newzbin was the best, and very easy
i hope that you come back! Good Luck!
And yes, i agree with newzxxx, it is very sadly… 😦
i will no alternatives, i will Newzbin!!!
Newzbin was the ugly, cluncky interface.. can’t even see name of NZB poster.. I am so glad that site gone from the net..
Good riddance. Newzbin fanboyz suck a lot of c*ck.
Tbh I had over 100 days worth left! They knew, looking back in the Rearview mirror. I regret that i even payed them money, and is sad that Over those years i have used so much time, and they end up like fuckin Lolitas!
Live long and prosper… TomFresh
A lot of faker’s posting I would guess. Net lives and thrives regardless. F…Get your dresses ready ladies and your feet wet there are groups to explore.
RIP Newzbin. Thanks for all the fish.. It was fun while it lasted… The only thing that is left is to change my daily routine..
I Predict a influx of users for torrents , good as always for piratebay
Wah wah, my precious credits, STFU. I knew what was coming and kept maxing out my topups anyway so they’d have something at least, even if it wasn’t much. All the best newzbin, and thanks for all the fish.
I’m sad, but (as editor) will simply follow the forums to keep my NZBs actualized… if you stop some minutes to review the subjects, you will find some of them…
I just joined Newzbin about a year ago, and all I can say is, “Thanks.” I think I’ve gotten more than just files from this site. Using this every single day has made me more aware of my computer and, as a result, I’m know so much more about my comp. It’s stupid but, it meant a lot to me. I’m such a newbie to all of this I don’t even know where to turn to now……Such a sad sad day 😦
So many misinformed or ignorant posts here today…
Just to clear up some misconceptions; if as has been reported Nezbin has declared itself insolvent (or has been put into bankruptcy by a third paty), then they *cannot* refund any money, it’s illegal. A reciever will be appointed and they will take over the running of the company, pay creditors (assuming there is money in the bank etc.) and decide what to do from there.
As for records being public, well to a degree they are, but you will have to pay for a report from companies house. You can see a list of reports and names of directors and company secretaries etc. just with a lookup though (http://tinyurl.com/2cko6rd and enter “Newzbin Limited”).
Finally, while I was a subsciber myself and really appreciated the effort and work the guys put in, don’t kid yourselves into thinkng Newzbin was in some way a benevolent charity. Newzbin was a profit making business which aimed to make money (not that there is anything wrong with that, we all deserve to get paid for our work).
I got my money’s worth and didn’t pay a cent! Thanks Newzbin for running a great site!
Thanks to all at Newzbin for a great service over the years. You will be missed very much. Good luck
Wankers, you should say a sincere fuck you to copyright laws instead of closing it down. WHERE ARE MIRRORZ?
Losers at newzbin!
Proud member for 5 years.
I suppose we all knew it was bound to happen at some point. Still don’t take the sting out of it though!
We ALL got much more than our money’s worth out of them many times over I’m sure. The price we paid was a pittance compared to the money we saved. If you wanna be angry with anyone, be angry at the MPA! We all knew what a bargain we were getting for those measly few pounds we spent over the years! Lets just hope that they get reincarnated as s similar site (with similar costs!), and we will all be happy.
So long guys, thanks for everything & good luck with the bastards, don’t let them get you down!
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You have no idea how many wanks i owe Newzxxx .. my wife is now gunna have to step up !!!
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stop bitchin about refunds, you aint going to get anything.Im sure those of you that used it for the perpose it was set up for, arnt to bothered.The others that did use it for other perposes are the ones that must be bitchin. As for those that say there should have been some warning “well come on they been in court how long”. Need i say anymore the writing was on the cards when they started was just a big egg timer waiting to run out. So give your thanks to newzbin for top service and for not releasing there db, as im sure this would twitch some arses in a big way.As i work a lot newzbin was the easiest way for me to catch up on what i missed tv/documentries ect…Have my credit in fact if i could get on the site i bloody donate them something by buying 1years credit, if we all had done this maybe they would have used the extra to fight longer.It has been said time and time again this wasn’t a little man in a hut, it was a company and they need to be earning money.
Man, the sites founders are in a good place right now. Stop the whining, bitching and lame heads up to alternatives. It was good while it lasted, and was one battle in a war that the “man” simply can’t win. Power to the fucking people.
guys,
stop moaning about the money you “lost”.
we all had our moneys worth, and if you dont think you did, then you’re thicker than the MPA who think this is going to go away.
there atre hundreds of sites out there, granted not as many as good as newzbin, but they are never going to stop it.
this wouldnt be necessary if people weren’t so greedy.
why would you pay someone 20 million to act in a film??? you then have to recoup that money from joe public, along with the cost of making the film etc. try bringin the costs down, then you might not have to charge us so much, and then we may stop filesharing.
sad to see newzbin go, it was simple to use, and i will miss it, but there are always alternatives.
Shit!! Newzbin made me popular at work and with my friends. I will miss friends. Good luck and God speed in your nest endeavor.
Sad sad sad. Newzbin was the best.
To you guys that are moaning about money lost…’try stickin’ you head up your arse…..se if it fits!!!’
OMG !
No
[…] The announcement links to a blog post that contains additional information about the case. Things are moving fast at everyones favourite Usenet indexer Newzbin. A Newzbin Editor let slip some interesting gossip to me on IRC. Apparently Newzbin has been put into administration yesterday because it couldn’t pay its debts. Word is that they owe the MPA £230,000 just in interim costs, and that’s without a full costs ruling or a decision on damages. Apparently they also owe a software development house over £500k. They also stopped taking payments a few weeks back. […]
ad sad sad. Newzbin was the best.
To you guys that are moaning about money lost…’try stickin’ you head up your arse…..see if it fits!!!’
Good luck to all the newzbin staff i truly hope they come thru this saga and thrive after all is done and dusted.
I cant believe how callous and self centred some ppl can be to be complaining about the loss of subscription money at a time like this beggars belief,
These ppl gave us excellent service for a trivial amount of money and i for one thank them all for what they did.
Here is a site for all you kind ppl not as good as newzbin but very helpful for us lazy ones.
http://www.merlins-portal.net
Once again good luck newzbin and thank you all.
someone who has other pages that we can find the movies then?
will there be another site popping up for us minnows to get files if so where can we find it
those cunts (MPAA, et al) can lick my anus.
where am I going to download my Debian isos from now? Bittorrent?
Seriously.. I don’t understand how they could deem the indexing service illegal.. probably just too much of a cunt to go after the individuals posting, so just take down the site indexing it.
Kill the big beast, you kill the scene.
maybe they should try suing carriers for allowing the protocol through their network?
now they can start serving up infringement notices on isp subscribers exposing themselves via bittorrent, as opposed to the one-way retrieval from usenet.
the MPAA can seriously go and suck some cum/shit-drizzled cock.
MOTHER FUCKEEEEEERSS!!!!!
On a side note.. what sort of impact will this have on the news hosting companies? If I can’t get my shit from an alternate source, I’m shutting down my $300 USD/year account.
CUNT CUNT CUNT CUNT CUNT!
Looks like the whole situation has got others who provide NZB info to think twice about their current status as theres a lot of sites that have disappeared overnight or who have now closed there registration process…..
You brought hours and hours of film and tv into my life. R.I.P Newsbin. u will always be loved. 😉
NZBMATRIX
is this where we go now?
Don’t worry guys, I’m sure a legal version of Newzbin is sure to pop up! With DRM’d copies of music and video that are so protected we’ll never get to view them! Along with the fact that the newzbin site will be used to sell penis enlargements, give away 10 free nintendo wii’s per second, offer to teach you to work from home, all while listening to a MC Hammer Too Legit to Quit mp3 that he hasn’t received a royalty on in twenty years!
Free Enterprise guys it’s awesome right?!
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WHY DOESNT THE MPA GO AFTER GOOGLE OR OTHER BIG COMPANIES?? FUCKING COWARDS! YOU CAN FIND THE SAME THING USING THOSE SEARCH ENGINES! Newzbin just made it easier. Either they are too intimidated or they have no backbone. You know…. It’s just like when a big movie star gets a DWI (Driving while intoxicated) YOU DONT SEE THEM GO TO JAIL LIKE THE AVERAGE JOE BLOW… Screw you political system and your flawed practices! If the DVD/BLUERAY movies were not 30/40.00 fucking dollars brand new MAYBE the masses would buy them? OH WAIT YOU NEED 4 PORCHES AND 3 SUMMER HOUSES I FORGOT!! SILLY ME
I REALLY, REALLY, wish idiots would stop posting alternative sites. It’s douches like you that helped get this started. Usenet is like Fight Club…first rule: You don’t talk about it! Asses.
What he said ^^^^^
Do u Honestly Think the MPAA dont know about other NZB sites.Just Google NZB & see what happens .Fight Club My Arse u DUMB FUCK.
What he said ^^^^^
I’m from Canada eh and I used this shit all the time…now what I gona do PAY FOR MOVIES! this is an OUTRAGE!
I have no regrets.. Instead of a DVR I watched my shows the next day via usenet using NZBs I got from Newzbin. Technically illegal I guess because I don’t have to press FF to skip the lame ass commercials most of us hate.
And oh yeah I am guilty of downloading mp3s of albums I do own because grabbing them at 40Mbit was easier than reripping the cds, having to swap discs etc for the sake of time.
RIP NEWZBIN, hope the site is the only thing that really took a hit.
As a frequent contributor to newsgroups, I won’t miss the extra attention sites like this provided my material. I feel a little safer now. Good Riddance.
RIP newzbin, best usenet site ever…
and will all you cheap idiots stop complaining about getting your money back… the amount they charged is like 2 hamburgers a year, or a beer at a pub… I’m not rich, but 10 bucks wont make or break me, and I KNOW that it wont break any of you either. Take a SINGLE nzb from them, and I guarantee you SAVED that much money, making the rest of the year pay for itself.
Tried to keep the swears out of that, it was hard, you ‘money back’ people really are getting on my nerves
That being said, I am all for opensource, there is a great community of fellow computer nerds out there that i have full confidence in. And as much as I would like not paying for the service, I hope whoever hosts it ends up charging like newzbin does, to weed out all the 13 year old kids who will end up ruining an otherwise amazing community.
I was 5x less sad when the original napster went down, and then again when oink.cd went down (the only other two that I actually cared about). sad day in internet history 😦
Thanks Newzbin…..you will be missed. I topped off early and often trying to help the cause. Can we donate to get them out of debt?
Well it is really stupid posting any links here!
Stop it, you JERKS!
And, thanks to the NewsBin team, u did great!
I’m A Brit, used to pay A fortune for a private site moved to Newzbin four years ago. Cheap was an understatement service brilliant.
Can’t believe some of the guys on hear moaning about money, Quite sad really. To the guys at Newzbin thanks for letting me keep up with the times from the usa and crating my own Tv station, instead of watching the rubbish over here – guess I’m a frustrated yank at heart lol. Good times sure you will rise again wink wink.
Court documents give a perhaps surprising insight into the size of the Newzbin business. Its accounts for 2009 reveal that it turned over in excess of £1 million, yielded a profit of more than £360,000 and paid dividends on ordinary shares of £415,000. It has around 700,000 members.
Newzbin will be sorely missed.
I’ve just spent all afternoon downloading headers 😦
Why don’t the MPA shut down Giganews and Astraweb instead?
You were the best Usenet indexing site ever & I hope you rise from the flames one day!
As another poster said: “So long and thanks for all the fish!”
Keep my credits might buy you a pint!
Giganews and Astraweb are providers, and we DO NOT want those shut down.
My sentiments entirely, but why attack the indexing sites and not the providers who host the filez?
I don’t think providers can be brought down due to the nature of the posts they receive. Someone who knows the ins and outs of the law should be able to weigh in.
really sad to see you go 😦 so long…
so what are the alternatives now?
always look on the bright side of life
(Come on guys, cheer up!)
Please, let poor Newzbin use that (seriously NOMINAL) fee to combat whatever legal fees they are accruing. They have taken a bullet for all of us. It’s so sad that it had to go this way.
However you can never discount the Hydra effect. Cut off one head, and two more pop up in its place. We have seen this same thing when sites like Supernova or Oink went down.
Newzbin: you have been excellent, comprehensive, and progressive. It’s a shame that the MPAA didn’t like what was written in the book but was too illiterate to bother to read it, so they had to take it out on the Table of Contents.
PS: As I’m sure someone from Newzbin will be reading these, as they linked to it… Open Source that code. Information wants to be free. There are some incredibly smart legal-minds and programming-powers out there who could really use your research and code as a head start. When Bush shut down stem cell research did the US just throw it all in the trash and say, “my bad?” Nah, we outsourced it to brilliant European scientists until there was a regime change and a smarter, more intelligent figure was in power. Even if they’ve got it in a legal quagmire at the moment, there’s always the possibility that that code could… I dunno… leak out somewhere. Thanks for everything. I’m sure we’ll see you again soon. ❤
PPS: I’m sure some of us would be willing to donate what little we can to help too. Set up a paypal fund and there are plenty of us would donate at least the cost of a beer, or a sandwich.
i hope they get held personally resposible – “Caesium”, “Freaky” and “Kalente”
i would honor there great work, but they just were all about the money. this site could be easily run for free but there wouldnt be ONE MILLION POUND turnover a year either.
they used the editors as free labour, and let the money come in.
the main work for NZB was done by JOERG BITTERMAN (google him) a german software engineer. he left newZbin very early after developing the NZB system. the scum “Caesium”, “Freaky” and “Kalente” used it to make PROFITS.
I know you guys loved the site, but dont defend them, its them who fucked you.
No google results for “JOERG BITTERMAN”
fuck Caesium, fuck mpaa
fuck your mother
Rlslog irfree scenereleases and i willsearch4u are the sites which should be getting closed down, blatant pirates.
Thank you for Usenet.net!
Poland is with you!
In Poland it is a hunt on Usenet: http://di.com.pl/news/27717, 0, Pobieraczek_wykorzystuje_zapominalstwo_internautow.html – Use Google Translate
Thanks for all the NZB’s, good service and great price!
Ohh! My! Good! noooooo!!!! 😦
Shame lads, declare your selves bankrupt and laugh your fucking arse off. Me personally I’d restart the company under a slightly different name with different company heads, just to piss off the MPAA.
That said though, Newzbin is just an indexing site, all the content is still on usenet!!! It’s just a matter of finding it.The Newsleecher software does a decent “super search” tool which I often use.
Think about it, it’s the user’s who make the site, they do all the hard work.
When will the MPAA realise they simply cannot win because real shit doesn’t die, it multiplies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cough, cough…. NAPSTER!!!
RIP newzbin, it was great while it lasted
Let’s not kid ourselves. This was bound to happen sooner or later. The main point of Newzbin was so that we could all get copyrighted material easily and for free. It stands to reason that the owners of such material would try and put a stop to it. I don’t blame them. But I will miss Newzbin.
[…] of the day is also the shutdown of the British Usenet indexer Newzbin today; the site sank under the weight of a lawsuit and […]
Like some have said stop asking or posting similar site names on here,at least let em google bin sites there are toins.
None as good as the legend that was Newzbin, sadly bye bye to the best. for now.
I work for MPA and you guys are busted, soon 2 be no more usenet, next 2 go nzbmatrix, and nzbrus – bye bye free stuff
What about google?
search for anything you want & add .nzb after… twat
Been saying that about music for a decade now, can still get free music instantly.
Difference is the music industry actually got involved and created legitimate and competitive means to obtain music legally.
The movie industy needs to follow suit, £20 for a blue ray movie is a rip off and when they give people a genuinely competitive product they will sell more.
can’t stop the signal.
You’ll never win.
you sir should eat lead based paint and multiply so future generations of your retarded gene can suffer. KTHNX
I have been a member of Newzbin for about 9 years. To be honest, the quality and quantity of posts had deteriorated a lot over the past 2 years or so… maybe it was time for them to go. The one thing I will absolutely miss is the “files” search. RIP Newzbin.
PS to the above . You guys were the best, thats why they went after you, a sad compliment but one nevertheless. See ya in another life.
damn man damn damn damn I need and want my Newzbin. After two hours of crying I just want to know where can I get nzb from now?
Well they did’nt owe me much and i cant grumble, i got my moneys worth.
Good luck to the guys and hopefully the other NZB sites remain open……
the admins are getting drunk and fucking prostitues with our money. i had 2000d left. i hope they end up in jail
The bastards! they never offered us editors company hookers
koko, the max top-up was 365 days and if you had more than 100 days (can’t be sure of this number) you could not do another top-up, so there’s no way in hell you had 2000d. Epic fail.
Hmmn, so you paid money to be able to download illegal content and now are complaining about it ?
Only an Idiot would up to that amount knowing thier situation! You deserve to be shafted LMAO
Koko could it be possible that you got your top up days and how many guys gave it to you up the ass confused?
You are a high-order moron.
Why the hell were you 2000days in credit???
Probably can’t Open Source the software whilst the (reportedly) owe 0.5M to their software devshop…
[…] Newzbin has been put into administration yesterday because it couldn’t pay its debts,” reads a blog post linked to the […]
fuck u koko u fucking CLOWN!
Thanks old friend I knew you well!
I did donate to the court fund. Would it help if we ALL pitched in and
donated if for no other reason, but to help with the court cost and say thanks for the ride?
A Southern Yank
[…] Newzbin has been put into administration yesterday because it couldn’t pay its debts,” reads a blog post linked to the […]
Chins up guys!! FFS you owe the guys at Newzbin that much ,the MPAA fucked them dont let them do the same to us!
Fire up the Virus Checkers (coz it gonna be a bumpy ride)
Going Old School muahahahahahaha
RIP Newzbin!!
good while it lasted folks i have been a member for many years and they are welcome to my unused credit it has saved me a fortune 🙂 just sorry it had to end 😦
lol… I use super search.
anyone who relies on newzbin for their fix is a fool.
If you say something like that it shows you don’t understand some of the reasons for Newzbin.
It allowed cryptically titled uploads to be identified – you cannot identify them using Super Search unless you want to download EVERYTHING and identify it yourself. Totally impractical to do that. Further, passwords were provided by users for passworded files. Movies with incorrect NFO;s were updated with corrected user input. Fakes were identified. Propers were linked to defectives. Languages were listed properly. Results of virus multi-scans listed on warez. And dozens of other functions were supported. None of this can be done with a bare bones search! The loss of NewZbin will not be made up for soon – not with NZBmatrix, or any of the others.
I only know of one site which seems to be trying to duplicate the full functionality of Newzbin and that is NGindex.com, but they are small and it is uncertain how successful they will be. But take a look at it, at least.
Fair comment Barbara, but I’m sticking with my point, ‘but’ I’ll rephrase my ‘fools’ comment.
The majority of newzbin users were people who were ‘technically lazy’ and did not take the time to search in the places where ‘legit’ group release posts originated from, they simply used newzbin and the xxx sister site for their extremely well organised newsgroup post listings and the accompanying NZB files.
If you use supersearch the right way, sure it may take all of 5 seconds to track down ‘what’ you want in an IRC channel or from a free, well organised website (I use three, two of which have been around for well over 10 years), but then you get exactly what you are looking for, and can even message the actual person who posted what you download if there is a problem! Also, you don’t get viruses, you don’t get fake posts, and you don’t get movies with hardcoded subs (unless you want them)! Also supersearch finds exactly what you want, and lists nothing else (if used correctly with an index code)(although some groups are now using the same index codes but again they are clearly marked so as to not download an incorrect item), so there’s no downloading whole group indexes, ie alt.bins.mm for example, lol, last time I remember looking at an index listing for that group the index files was something like 4gb! (and that was a long time ago) I dread to think how big an index file for that group is now, especially with 600+ days retention!
Newzbin was good but certainly not perfect! I also know for a fact they didn’t list everything that was posted, so it was not the best at listing what was available (but then no site is ‘that’ perfect) and I also know many people grabbed NZB’s, thinking they were being ‘safe’ only to have their PC infected with a trojan or worm, or got a movie with no audio or the most common problem, they got a film with hardcoded ‘dutch subs’ lol… all courtesy of newzbins lack of awareness, which, was solely left to admins (who worked for ‘free’) to report (and who often didn’t, as comments were often posted by downloaders)! But I suppose when you download warez, pre release movies and mp3s off a site aimed at offering cracked software and pre-release media what does one really expect! 😀
I took a look at your site recommendation and it does look good, but I now refuse to pay to such sites, when I know the information required is out there and it’s ‘free’, sticking to my original point… an indexing site charging for NZB files is a bit like going to a supermarket to do your weekly shopping and then giving your list to some guy at the door and waiting for him to get your groceries, paying him for doing what you could have done yourself, and then going home!
I was a member of newzbin from w-a-y back and have been using newsgroups since the early 1990’s … back in the day man, as they say… so maybe I’m just an old timer and stuck in my ways?
peace…
Newzbin is not dead. It is starting over again small and hidden. They want to get back to their grassroots and keep a strong small loyal user base away from the mass conglomerate of petty people it has turned into.
I find this realy unfortunate, as Newzbin was one off the best out there if not the Best! I never had to search another Site to get what I wanted.. I just hope they’ll be back someday, you never know! If not please Open op your Source and let someone else run it with you or something. And as for as far as “Illigal” can go.. That wasn’t Illigal as it was just an “Index” site as some said.
Greetings,
Hope to find a site just like Newzbin ( Or come back to it! )
If anyone has a great site as in the style off Newzbin, please Mail me @ Nodrulez@hotmail.com / Thank you!
nzbmatrix
Very sad day for the .NZB users one of the best usenet sites around. Remain be of how a few years back the closed the old suprnova.org site
You frugal cheapskate b*tches, be happy with the service you all had! They were great, stop crying you seeking refunds P.O.S
The writing has been on the wall for a few months now, so I figured this was coming, and the Newzbin guys were honest and up front as can be, while also doing right by users in freezing all accounts, and taking no further money from anyone, so those that begrudge them the odd handful of dollars that each of us lost are, in a word, pricks. Truth is I’ve never seen a site crisis and possible impending shutdown handles with as much thought for the users than what happened here.
I would like someone to come out and say that none of our user records or financials have been retained or passed on to anyone else though, just to put everyone’s minds at ease on that particular subject.
Thank you anonymous people of newzbin for all you added to the scene, and may all involved at least walk away clean at the end of the day.
hi all try http://www.newzleech.com/
I Have 3 Great Words :
Newsleecher SuperSearch Service…..
lol, I concur.. so that’s two of us… see my post 481
we should try to collect donations for newzbin… so they dont have their lives ruined..
Goodbye Newzbin…R.I.P….. Get a life you muppets asking for your money back! Have a think about how much you’ve saved yourselves over the last few years…dicks!
Can’t they relocate where laws are more “friendly”?
“To be honest, the quality and quantity of posts had deteriorated a lot over the past 2 years or so… maybe it was time for them to go”
Totally agreed. Very very very useful site but not all of the editors were doing a great job cataloging and that was getting annoying.
I agree too. Coverage of specialty groups, like manga, had ceased when key specialists went on to form boutique sites elsewhere. 0-day scene had fallen to a trickle, much of it being faked by virus planters. Obviously, it was the editors who were responsible for much of the quality and many had already left.
the groups are still out there, thankfully… but they are not as public as they used to be… I don’t know whether that’s the groups personal choice, or that they lost followers due to lack of interest, but with a little ‘fun’ digging they can be found.
the editors only got free access to the site and not a penny more… If they had been payed on a commission based rule, then I guarantee lot more would have been listed! Plus not all the editors were accurate with their postings!
I’m (better, I was) Editor, and I’ve done 100s Bluray reports… I think my job has be accurate (posting passwords for more than 200 posts too…). Sometimes some post may be wrong, but that doesn’t mean that the job is inaccurate.
Yes, I subscribe to that they used editors to do the job, but I knew it…
Based on my experience I think that it should be possible to do the same site whit not very much effort… The layout was very similar to TikiWiki, and TikiWiki (up to version 3, I think) had a module to connect to usenet…
I send some request to develop some new features, but they never close the ticket (don’t know if They read it)…
One interesting feature they didn’t want to develop was a module to upload NZB (founded in some forum) to generate reports… some posts are with multiples files, each one renamed to something… It keep lot of time to generate reports…. Why did they have not spent a little bit of money to do that?
‘comn.. someone(else) want to make it free? just implement tikiwiki! 😉
Just to make it clear… I DON’T LIKE TIKIWIKI!
I just sayd that it should be possible… The code looks like Windows code 😉
N.B. Drupal can do same job with a not very much added effort.
Open Source. It’s on it’s way and will allow for many Newzbin clones to setup quickly. The existing NZB’s should be included, but not sure how much of the site was able to be grabbed. Either way, these can be re-generated.
A collaborative approach would be best (many sites, different tld’s working together sharing sub’s) and allow for this type of closure never to happen again.
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
thanks for all your work guys, great job done, please pass on the code.
ok where do we go now ?
Noooooooo, oh well theres always http://binsearch.info/ is not as good but it does the job.
i had 99 days left on my account so did’t get stung that badly.
im not bothered about the money iv been using the site since
2002 so i got my moneys worth over the years.
oh well R.I.P. Newzbin thanks to all the people how worked on
the site over the years. the site will be missed but life goes on.
I’m looking into http://www.ngindex.com/. From what I can tell their servers are in Malaysa. Good luck to the MPAA coordinate a lawsuit that crosses jurisdictions with that country. A US/UK combo was easy. I just discovered this site and a visual trace route says they are in Malasia. I don’t know how good they are so this isn’t an endorsement or an advertisement.
was inevitable! but a sad day for all involved. R.I.P newzbin the best usenet indexer that the web will ever see!
Damm… Will miss ya.. R.I.P.
Its a Shame, for what its worth many thanks to the people who worked on the site your efforts have given many access to stuff that would other wise be unobtainable for what ever reasons.
And to ask for money back seems a bit ironic considering how much u have saved by using newzbin !!! numptys
Typical, I finally get in and it closes… Typical, but I have been using other sites mentioned above and many more out there…
Cold ….. Very Cold…
Terrorist prevail again! “USA Lawyers”
Can some Brit “Please Call ” Her Highness ” up on the telly and reverse the charges, PLEASE!
Weapon of Mass Disruption … now who … farted.
This STINKS to high heaven.
Sad day indeed, I also had more then my monies worth and am not worried about what was left in my account.
Thanx Newzbin for everything.
I am sad now 😦
At 1.5 mill /year it’s coming back with a different strategy! It would be easier to shut down than to pay the fine
So long Newzbin. It was sweet while it lasted.
[…] more info on the closing of newzbin here: https://deepsharer.wordpress.com/2010/05/18/newzbin-gossip/ […]
I just deleted my browser bookmark for Newzbin. Sad day, indeed. I don’t care about the money coming back to me, I got a lot out of Newzbin and I’m grateful (which everyone reading this should be). I simply hate that their code has disappeared because it was the most vital, in-depth indexer of its kind. I hope they pass the technology onto others so that it stays alive in some form.
Had more than my fair share from them and am perfectly content to waiver any refund and I am more than 400 days in credit.Your site rocked,well done and start again in North Korea / China / Ukraine,etc.
scammed? buncha crap, i been a member since 2004 and have always found the guys there to be honest and run a good service, its not their fault the mpa decided to make an example out of them, so stop whinging because you think you were scammed and now cant use their site to download illegal games and movies, we all used it for that.
good luck to the guys at newzbin, i had a great service from you for 6 years 😉
I considered topping up to be a donation as we all knew this was going to happen.
Of course it just makes other sites richer. The MPA probably will have no problem with sites in USA/UK/CA but will run into major problems wit sites in other countries with not as favorable of laws.
I am not sure the MPA really wants to stop piracy. I think they simply want to sue every indexing site and get as much cash as they can.
This just seems to be their new business model.
The Movie Industry is making RECORD PROFITS yet still keep showing the anti-piracy commericals.
Why dont they show a FAT Producer in his 40 million dollar house saying he only made 80 million dollars last year
The MPA only has Sequels and cheap 3D added after the movie is made as an excuse to raise ticket prices.
Sad Sad day Thanks for all the Files i have downloaded!.
Never again will they be a site like Newzbin.
Been a customer for 4 years never once had a problem.
Damn the lawsuits.
They may take this one but how much longer they think it will take b4 they are more and more.
They should just sit down and chill because the MPAA are in a loosing battle.
As for my remaining Credit Newzbin Staff Earned it.
Well Done guys Thanks For Every Thing
R.I.P Newzbin
a) quit snitching
b) quit flapping at people who are mad. i paid money because they’re supposed to stay “UP” by using my $
c) they waited just enough time for me personally to not be able to dispute the charge. 118 days is the maximum time you have to dispute through VISA. Probably it is the same for the rest of the credit cards. Pretty much everyone who was taking advantage of the “holiday” pricing got hit by this. I pay them on December 28th and they stop indexing around the end of January I think? or was it February…
STOP LISTING THE NAMES OF THE FREE SITES UNLESS YOU ARE SOME KIND OF COP
LMAO – You think your l33t skills can find these sites but the MPA can’t? Topsites get taken down without a great deal of hastle… so finding a website really isn’t that tricky. Also… Can’t believe you and all these others bean counters bitchin about lost subs! Newzbin made money out of warez, you paid for this service, you new that it was illegal… Accept that fact that Newzbin provided us all with a great service for years (2nd to none in fact) and you got lots of cool stuff for next to nothing! throughout the whole process newzbin has protectected your privicay! I lost almost a years worth of subs, when i purchased those i new what the outcome of the case would be… and if i met any of guys who ran the site in the pub… i’d buy em drinks all night and still feel like i’d got the better end of the deal…
Your types are the scum of the scene, best get your arse down to the nearest car boot sale and flog some warez to recover your lost subs!
For the rest who appreciate what we’ve got and remember how things were back in the BBS days… Look out for invite only clones pooping up soon! ;o) Just got to track down a copy of the code…
Well that sux
i would just like to say thanx to whoever created that awesome site, i am hugely grateful for the media you have provided me with, as should everyone else be.
i have been using newzbin since i first discovered usenet more than 5 years ago, in a time when i had to download the headers and search through huge lists of articles (couldnt afford to pay wen i was 14).
I have jumped to and from NZB download sites but always ended up back at newzbin, there was just no beating it, it was perfect and i will be lost without it.
im just sorry it had to end like this.
Lol @ Whatever.. The price you pay is a measly sum anyway so quit your fucking whinging. Just think of all the shit you’ve downloaded with the help of that site over the years.
Long live the Newzbin creators and fans, it was a blast while it lasted; for now I’ve found another indexer site. Enjoy it while it lasts.
Personally, I would pay more to the guys @ newzbin to help them with their debts, simply because of the great service they’ve provided over the years. That kind of site builds a community, and the fact that you’re here bitching about your £12 or so just shows that the real place you should be looking for your downloads is on google, searching for fuckin mp3s. You n00b!
Sorry to see you go.Thanks guys many happy downloads from you-)))
oh no
R I P
The best is gone
I for 1 am not worried about my cash but worry for the nzb team
now lets see a site step up
Peace to all of you
Sad day…..FUCK all of you asking for your money back!!! It’s not like you didn’t get your money’s worth from the site!
To those that want refunds, contact your credit card company. I’ve contested charges after 6 months, and was refunded.
These were my boyz, my homies and part of my history……
LONG LIVE NEWZBIN……..R.I.P
Forget about the money for now.
Here is one question that people need to ask:
What is the goal of the MPA?
Are they really trying to stop piracy or are they just trying to make as much money as possible by extorting money from websites like Newzbin?
Will the MPA go after the Usenet providers?
The only thing the MPA has done is to get more publicity on the usenet (which most people know nothing about) and prove that indexing specific parts of the usenet is illegal in the UK when you bring in a whole legal team to fight a small company.
just got newzbin account 2 days b4 it was froze paid for a year and a half now im fed in the a hopefully they refund there customers
Loved the site..still had 350 days left…But got the full year for half price so we are even on that.Missed the site over the last few weeks when nothing much was posted. But it wasn’t a surprise it went.
Thanks guys for a great ride.We will miss you and the ease of use.
Its all still out there if you know where to look tho. Good hunting.
446 days of credit down the shitter
so long thanks for a top knotch service and it was worth every penny i payed but can people stop saying they want there money back this is not about money its about internet freedom we have been denied,
RIP NEWZBIN ! THANX FOR THE MEMORIES ! FUCK THE AUTHORITIES YOU ARE A BUNCH OF COMMUNIST FUCKERS !!!!!
WHY DO YOU MAKE ME SWEAR !!!!!!! MY BLOOD IS BOILING !!!!!!!
Sad, but hey, it happens.
12 pounds to use the service, when I consider how little 12 pounds is, I have no capacity to whine. Those whining are indeed cheap bastards. We’ve all seen your kind online. No one likes you.
But I have lived by the belief nothing is forever online. If you get more than 5 years out of ANY aspect of online activity, consider it a fluke.
I’ve lost track of how many things have been all the rage, only to disappear replaced by something else.
Newzbin is gone. I will live.
There WILL be something to replace it.
Damn .
What can i say we have used newzbin over and over again and now there is no newzbin left.
I hope the script will appear on the binaries so others can contineu the best way ever.
I’m sure some of us remember what happened when Supernova closed. A dozen more sites opened up (You would think they’d learn their lesson). Every crisis is an opportunity for growth, so I’m told.
As far as make-up artists and hair stylists and special effects guys go, they get paid whether the movie or show is a hit or not. The mpaa isn’t losing money! I’d never, ever, pay money to see the garbage Hollywood is putting out these days, and I’m sure I’m not alone. At least, when we watch movies/shows or try programs, our opinions aren’t tainted by having spent a lot of money to see it or experience it to begin with.
Thanks for providing Newzbin so long guys! Much appreciated!
usenetscene dot com is a new nzb site starting soon ive heard 1 of the admins from newzbin has part of it
What is with the creditcard-number?
tell me where to sign up for my new newzbin like site …
thanks to everyone that has provided links to new nzb sites, ill check them out tomorrow
@ Caterpillar
Its like that court case involving Rapidshate, i think it was, cos they just host they could get done
Newzbin: you will be missed:-(
Thanks for the memories 🙂
So long and thanks for all the fish, dont worry about the 300+ days that was left. It was wonderfull while it lasted.
The old definition of “chutzpah” was this: a man murders his mother and father and then begs for mercy from the court on the grounds that he is an orphan.
The NEW definition of chutzpah is the thief who stole thousands of dollars worth of intellectual property and then complained that his pusher ripped off his bus money.
Just an example: “c) they waited just enough time for me personally to not be able to dispute the charge. 118 days is the maximum time you have to dispute through VISA. Probably it is the same for the rest of the credit cards. Pretty much everyone who was taking advantage of the “holiday” pricing got hit by this. I pay them on December 28th and they stop indexing around the end of January I think? or was it February…
[…] immediate reason for the closure was administration, which is sorta like bankruptcy here in the U.S. The court case against the Motion Picture […]
Thank You
i topped up 200 days but so what.
Thanks you Newzbin again
Thanks for everything newzbin.
I wish you guys all the best. Keep your heads up lads.
Tykes born an bred: strong int’arm an strong int’ head.
Have a pint of Sam’s XXXX on what’s left of my credits.
Gi m’luv to Taddy, m’grate-gran wor from thar. Eee oop!
MPA needs to test their might against the bigs guys that could afford great legal representation Ahem giganews! When are they shutting limewire down?
I wish all of you would just STFU. Gather headers yourself and quit fucking whining. There are many “pay-for” and “free” indexing sites to choose from. Nothing lasts forever so get over it. Who cares what the MPAA is trying to do. I really don’t give a flying fuck. News servers around the world aren’t going to go away any time soon so enjoy it like I have been since 1996. Reading these posts proves to me that the majority of you have no clue WTF you’re even talking about. Piss off and set yourself on fire, please.
nailed it
Will miss newzbin.
Hope Another site comes up!!
You think Newzbin didn’t give up the logs in order to strike a deal? They will not protect criminal activities and if found guilty will be punished to fullest extent of the law. MPA will have to set an example with certain individuals to send a message to public that this sort of behaviour is unacceptable.
There were no logs, dumbass. You can still view the court documents in pdf.
The MPA can eat out my asshole. I WISH they’d come after me using the Newzbin rolls. Seriously. All this does is make me absolutely more committed to circumventing their bullshit BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY. The money I’ve poured into DVDs, Netflix, Pay-per-views, theaters, subscriptions and so on is incredible. These types of actions cause me to want to cancel ALL legal forms of delivery and focus all my efforts on free downloading. All the MPA is doing is alienating the public and creating a legion of anarchist-minded individuals that are doggedly committed to shumping them up the ass. If they think bringing down Newzbin is going to stop P2P they have a very rude awakening coming. They have already gone after Usenet companies and been roundly and completely drubbed. They have won this battle, but the war will be ours and their comeuppance will be epic.
Wow.. Newzbin shut down 4 years after i signed on the first time, to the date.
“This email was delivered to you by:
Automated newzBin Mailer (Time: 17/May/06 20:22:49 GMT)”
Must be a conspiracy… 🙂
To the owners; thanks for a great site.
Been a member here for about 5 years..Will miss it.Thanks newzbin.
newzbin xxx great any links to the same please?
usenetscene.com launches this tuesday gunna be a big nzb site no adverts no nzb download limit
MPAA still doesnt get it… well the music and video industry doesnt get it. Whos not willing to pay for music and video online? See how many users Newzbin had, how many have paying usenet providers. They just dont have a good business model and want u to pay f*cking 15 euro (or something i dont know the last time i bought an) album or DVD. Make it cheaper, lots more users will start using ur service…
RIP Newzbin and i wish u good luck in court!!!!
Sad to see Newzbin go. Made indexing so easy, no trawling. ahh man back to mIrc and bots. Was a mod at packetnews, now I see thats gone. How times have changed. So the code is out there…..pity because there will be a lot of crap sites will pop up looking for £….what project is he working on?
Fuckers fuckers fuckers, when will the MPA assholes ever realize they are not losing money to someone who can’t afford to pay for there nazi priced bullshit!
If I can’t afford it and can’t buy it, but download it how the fuck are they loosing money to that?
Maybe to others who can afford it, but chose to download instead ya, but that does not give a rats ass, we have no rights and what happens when you push someone to a corner? They get back and that is what we pirates and non pirates are doing; you have that money, because of us; without us you would be none!
Now, you have money to win in any court battle; you have your DMCA and our money and what left have you left us with?
The most powerful tool in the world. The internet!
Fuckers, you pushed the last consumers in the corner for the last time you pieces of shit. I hope this breeds more pirates then they can shake money at!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I never used newzbin, it was down for open registration before I got usenet. However, I can’t see their system being out of the ordinary extraordinary. Other sites offer categories, filtering, etc. Hell I’m a programmer I would be happy to write the functions it offers for another site but I don’t know what it did. Try out nzbmatrix, gingadaddy, nzbsrus, etc. The nzb format is open so what else is so great about it.
Hi, My friend downloaded some automotive software from Newzbin and would never show me what i need to download and make those files work. You say that you use Usenet? Any chance you can tell me if i need anything special to download files. I am not comuter savy that much but good advice and i can find my way though it. TU I was just starting to learn my way around Newzbin, im sick that they left now. I wish i knew this techie stuff like a programmer.
Lol sniper. Thanks for the heads-up.
OMG! this blows. ohh well was fun while it lasted there will be more!!!
O.K. – one (nice) source less… so what? The MPAA did for sure not fix their problem, juts made it slightly more inconvenient – most likely for a short while until a comparable server will be operated out of Russia, Rumania or Nigeria…
Hope they spent my 52 weeks+ on a good beer…
man! that’s fucked up!
[…] […]
R.I.P. Newzbin
How I loved thee
sniper is this the site LOL
http://www.usenetscene.org/
Can’t you guys just move the servers to a country the mpaa can’t get to?
This was a great indexing service and saved lazy me all the time it’s now taking me to manually sort through my news server.
You did nothing wrong in indexing publically available information and you save me tons of time manually sorting through the internet pile of crap.
Bless you guys and hope to see you up and running elsewhere soon.
Does someone need to rent a place in Denmark and help you out?
I’m sure someone out here would do that for you
Very much appreciate all you did for us as the other sites look childish compared to how your search engines worked !!
http://usenetscene.com/
Is this real….or an MPAA Honeypot
that *looks* like a clone … somehow 🙂
OK, on a second look this looks more like a clone of NZBMatrix …
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domain: usenetscene.com
created: 05-Apr-2010
last-changed: 02-May-2010
registration-expiration: 05-Apr-2011
nserver: ns1.usenetscene.com 174.121.198.129
nserver: ns2.usenetscene.com 174.121.198.130
status: CLIENT-TRANSFER-PROHIBITED
registrant-firstname: Mark
registrant-lastname: Williams
registrant-organization: gb metals and alloys 2009
registrant-street1: 173 Causeway Green Road
registrant-pcode: B68 8LQ
registrant-state: WMD
registrant-city: Oldbury
registrant-ccode: GB
tech-c-firstname: Hostmaster
tech-c-lastname: ONEANDONE
tech-c-organization: 1&1 Internet Ltd.
tech-c-street1: 10-14 Bath Road
tech-c-street2: Aquasulis House
tech-c-pcode: SL1 3SA
tech-c-state: BRK
tech-c-city: Slough
tech-c-ccode: GB
Would MPAA register with these details?
—>>> http://usenetsxxxe.com/
Might be worth being cautious.Rumours about a founder of Newzbin being behind it have not been proved.
Also, the site is in the USA, so it’s either there to avoid Newzbin type problems or for a more sinister reason.
Just think twice before you sign up. After all, there are plenty of other sites around.
we will never forget newzbin. we will all wait for your comeback
to all the people complaining about the money take me for example i registered to the site 6 months back and i like it so much in the trial that i payed for a 2 year subscription and they can have the money for all i care cause it was well worth it
stopping fucking crying and lets look at some alternatives to get us back.What’s out there that provides of a similar service.
RIP Newzbin
but… they would have had more than a couple of hours notice of being shut down – dodgy cunts!
http://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/markup.cgi?doc=/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2010/608.html&query=newzbin&method=boolean
Interesting read
I AM that broke and I wish I could have done more. Newzbin was a great site with great people behind it. It was stated that they didn’t keep any records of users and only kept the payment records long enough to process the payments. The MPAA doesn’t really give two shits about us at this point anyway. I got my moneys worth in the first week of using them. That was one bill I never leg lag and never minded paying. They did a great service for a great number of people.
I can’t believe that people are pissed that they lost money when they “previewed” a lot of content thanks to this wonderful site. How sad.
One Blu-Ray disc costs more than a year’s membership.
Why would the MAA set up fake NZB sites? I dont put it past them but downloading NZB files is not illegal.
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just a tip for anyone shitting themselves out there – if anyone from the MPAA or the feds comes knocking to your door as a result of this, just state that u have an unsecured wireless connection. They can’t prove it was u so they cant touch u.
heard it from the horses mouth and makes sense 🙂
I am deeply saddened by the loss. Newzbin was a great service — no one deserves to go down the way these guys did.
http://www.topnzbsites.com/
Fucking eh been a member for about 3-4 years and greatly supported the site. RIP NewzBin.
[…] immediate reason for the closure was administration, which is sorta like bankruptcy here in the U.S. The court case against the Motion Picture […]
I’m bummed about the site closing.. though not shocked.. When I first heard about the legal issues I topped up to 3 years.. I did that just because I wanted to give my fair share knowing there was a good chance the site would be shut down all together.
I feel like their service was worth it, and worth my support.
Unlike many on here, I’ve actually purchased more DVD’s and software since I started using Newzbin as I wont buy something I can’t try or return. Put a return policy on movies so we can return them if they are crap and maybe i’d buy them first instead of download them.. but instead I download, and buy the ones I really loved.. Deleted the shitty ones that wasted my time watching them..
Thats funny dloading NZB is not illegal…tell that to Newzbin…seems the courts disagree!!
The reasons why Newzbin was closed down are definately a bit more complex. There are other Usenet-Searchengines, but most of them cannot do more than just finding files. Newzbin had those “Reports”, ready-made packages of files, that made it possible for everyone to download all kinds of copyrighted stuff with a single click. The download of the NZB-File is not an illegal procedure, but the court considered the provision of those “packages” as illegal.
I think nzb files would be legal but to index and comment about it might be questionable.
I wonder why didn’t they moved their servers to some third world country or Bahamas….
Thanks newzbin.com
Absolutely right, I also wonder why they didn’t just move it all to Russia for example. Now it’s too late, they can’t pull such a stunt… But I guess in a few days clone sites will appear, located in “safe” countries since the latest rumour is that the code was “stolen” 🙂
Haha…quit whining, it’s done…we all knew it was coming…
No big deal…just go back to sorting out manually like the old days…
not as fast, but ez peazy.
U can bet the hackers will have the last word on this, as always…
stupid suits will never learn, lmao
viva la revolution!
I miss the porn section of the site. Is there any other site like that that offers a decent porn selection.
xnzb
Thats the end of an era. This was my favorite site for years. Strange things happen these days. Yesterday my google account was hacked. Going back to MS Hotmail? One thing i must say: It was all becoming too easy these days. I know lots of guys with automated download queques, 1 click download movie sites etc. This could’nt last. The rest of the sites will be down soon, but there will be something else. There will always be something else…
This is such a sad day.
For the amount of users they had, i’m sure theyll be able to pay the fine. Good luck to them, they definitely raised the bar for downloading, and technology in general. If only the industry offered something as good as newzbin to download their content cheaply, rather than charging $40/50 for a friggin bluray movie or $30 for a dvd.
they scammed us. 1 dollar here 2 here and 5 there. newzbin has 700.000 members. they stole like 2,5 dollar average. this makes mor than 1.5 MILLION POUND.
they fucking scammed us!!
they are laughing their asses off about us stupid users and how they fucking scammed us.
THEY MADE A MILLION POUND A YEAR, for some years. the site should have been for free.
What and the site didn’t cost anything to run? Server space, bandwidth… all free right? I doubt it! A site with so many users and so much bandwidth usage would cost a fair bit to run. Their turnover may have been ~ £1million a year but their profit wasn’t.
Besides, individually, if we were scammed, it would have been for about £2 each. You had the choice not to pay too…
I got what I paid for, as did everyone else. Quit your complaining or follow the instructions on requesting your refund.
everyone knows this is pointless, you wouldn’t get any penny back.
this is the point about being SCAMMED, they took ‘r money and we never gonna get it back!
do you know what traffic costs nowadays? nearly nothing. servers etc can easily been paid with the ads that newzbin run. (giganews, newsleecher)
if you charge you user you have to provide also a service worth its money, and not whining that you cant increase retention above 240d because you lack server resources.
every fucking free site in the web got 600d and the only site that is charging is not able to do that? FUCK THAT.
joerg, what’s your paypal email address? I’ll personally send you £2 for your refund if it means so much to you!
And you weren’t scammed. If you really believe you were then take it up with the authorities… I’m sure they would have a field day when they examine the evidence (i.e. your PC)
They did not MAKE a million pounds in a year
They had a turnover of a million pounds!
They had a great service. If they made millions of pounds, they were worth it. Nothing stops you from making a new newzbin and make millions of dollars.
And yes. I had a year worth of credits.
Well there is still nzbmatrix.com, merlins-portal.net, and nzbsrus.com, of course none of them have the same quality control and fantastic automation features of newzbin, but they are cheaper and still operational (for now!).
Sad new to hear Newsbin has finally gone now?
I hope all the guys who ran Newsbin are ok,…. their service was second to none.
From me,…Thankyou Newsbin for the best service ever you will be missed.
ReplayUk
that is just funny, the people that constantly steal other people’s ideas (seen a movie lately that wasn’t a ripoff of a movie book song or epic poem?) get upset over people stealing their intellectual property? irony would show it’s face but it would get sued for looking too much like the mpaa’s complaint
R.I.P. Newzbins, sites like nzbsrus , binsearch , nzbmatrix will all slowly one by one get the same action… Courts/Law should concentrate on hitting real criminals… Oh yea… they cant cos they are fucking USELESS…… Why not spend the time and money and efforts busting child porn rings….. Oh , yea, cos its not as easy… fucking n00b c**ts…. Assholesz.
Thanks newszbin and thanks deepsharer !
i agree with u 100%
utter rubbish! how could they owe 500k to a software house??? you are kidding right. if they owe anything to a software house (other than themselves, as after all they are the software developpers) it would be more like 500 quids and not 500K!!!!
http://usenetscene.com/
WTF IS THIS? Trap or real!!
Look at nzbmatrix.com, looks almost identic.
588. get motherfucker
???
Is there a way we can help these guys considering they have put themselves out there for us all……I would have willingly paid double for my monthly subscription..!
OOOH shit , where do i find services like Newzbin ?
I wonder if the timing of this is significant. I suspect there’s an element of choice involved in when a company decides to go into adminstration. Perhaps doing so before the final ruling on damages/costs gives priority to existing creditors? But IANAL.
i can’t believe that people got their moneys worth.
They provided nothing, everything they offer can be got for free, and despite my dislike of the MPAA I’m glad they took newzbin down.
Profiting from what they did is disgusting.
At last. It will be good to get rid of all downloads that are illegal just to stop the new found internet “free and cheap” wank brigade.
Go rent your films and support software houses.
Most of you are chav’s who spend all your cash on drugs/weed.
I bet the very same people who use hotukdeals and get ulcers if you find an item £2 cheaper after purchase.
Thanks for the good run, Newzbin.
Another one down. This sucks 😦
nzbs.org FTW
I really dont understand why is indexing service guilty for anything ?
Maybe google should be guilty for every rapidshare link it returns …
Giganews and other usenet “storage” providers still work with serveral pentabytes of binaries.. and that’s not problem…
Weird world…
Sad Day for all. They can and will never stop it. It’s just gonna keep growing!
Newzbin boys, thank you for all your hard work, hope you come out with something to show for all your hard work.
The only thing I can think of saying is…..
Fight the Power!
😦
nzbsrus.com
lmao @ ppl asking for there money back u fucking idiots it was like £8 a year. Cracking site sad to see it go 😦
I loved newzbin. I used to browse directly in the newsgroups to see what was there. I have not seen this functionality on other sites. I really don’t want to start to download headers. Almost a billion headers in alt.binaries.hdtv :). I don’t understand how Newzbin could loose the trial. It was only a search engine. Logically Google is the biggest pirate database if they can sue search engines. But Google have cash, so they are not sued. Always the small man who is crushed by the law.
wow its just sad to the newzbin go. I wish they can come back.
RIP Newzbin
http://usenetscene.com/
WTF IS THIS? Trap or real!!
Ha Ha
Member List
We Have: 3 Members
New Today: 0
Visitors Today: 2
You spamming your own crap site you fucktard???
NO YOU FUCKING GOOFBALL!!
GREAT NAME FOR A CUNT LIKE YOU!!!
I WAS ASKING OTHERS IF THIS WAS A LEGIT SITE YOU STUPID
FUCKING CUNT!!!
NOW YOU AND YOUR FAIMLY SHOULD ALL GET CANCER AND DIE!!
what a shiter i love that website where do i go know
Okay you cheap punks fuckin freeze! You have the right to remain silent – forever when i put a goddam cap in your ass, sheet thats it, get into the damn car y’brats, I am taking you all into custody for a shitload of trumped up copyright infringement charges!!
Goddamn hippy freeloaders. As soon as I’ve had like a litre of cofee, stuck a spoon of shit up my nose and raped some farm animals I’m gonna take you all down to central bookin.
Anyone knows a good Newzxxx substitute??? With stuff divided by category?! All the other usenet indexers like nzbsrus and nzbmatrix work like shit! They just have the hd and xvid division…
Not that I’ve found. They’re all a load of hairy bollocks.
[…] fermer à la suite d’une action en justice contre nous. » Et renvoie les internautes vers un blog externe résumant ses ennuis financiers. Newzbin avait été condamné au mois de mars dernier par […]
RIP Newzbin, as someone already said “Thanks for all the fish”
Such a shame. I have been with newzbin sine 205 and I have loved every minute of it. It is sad to see it bear the brunt of the legal system, while other sites are still walking free.
Its like losing mininova and napster all over again 😦
This has to have some grounds for appeal, but given the costs these chaps have incurred – would it be worth it? Probably not.
For the years i have used this listing service ( and that is all it is ) I have been happy to pay the pittance they were asking and would have gladly paid more.
NOW if they code was to be released and a fair number of “similar” services appear there could be grounds for a rebuttle based on an axiom change of usage. What was illegal last week might not be next week (so to speak) and could look to overturn posthumously.
Just a thought
http://binsearch.info good is free
http://www.merlins-portal.net
I remember when I had to manually go through each group and search through headers for what I wanted. It literally took a good hour+ each day not to mention the fact that there was no easy way to search all binary groups if you wanted something fast.
Thanks to the Newzbin admins, who put in there time and effort for a pittance, users no longer had to go through that.
I am saddened by the fact that the admins, in helping users are now faced with financial difficulties. I can’t imagine how stressful it must be for them to be in that much debt.
To those wanting their money back -I’d like to add Newzbin has always been upfront with what was happening. When the legal difficulties started the shortened the amount you could purchase as well as stopping payments when they could not provide full service. I had a full year left, they are welcome to it for doing so much.
Good luck Newzbin, you will be missed
why dont you guys just shut the fuck up and quit posting other nzbsites!! you stupid fucking cunts. people like `YOU are the reason these sites are going down in the first place. MIKE W – you should be shot and your mother raped with barbwire
http://nzb.newscacher.com
http://nzb.real-revange.com
http://nzbcube.org
http://nzbfun4all.nl
http://nzb-kings.tk
http://nzbleech.net
http://nzbmatrix.com
http://nzbmovies.blogspot.com
http://nzbnation.com
http://nzbserien.org
http://nzbxxx.com
http://powernzb.org
http://v3.nzb-dogz.net
http://www.adultnzb.com
http://www.filmratingnzbgroup.nl
http://www.masternzb.org
http://www.meganzb.com
http://www.nzb4ever.com
http://www.nzb-chat.com
http://www.nzb-dogz.com
http://www.nzbfile.com
http://www.nzbfiles.org
http://www.nzb-forum.com
http://www.nzb-forums.co.uk
http://www.nzbidx.com
http://www.nzb-magic.com
http://www.nzbnewz.org
http://www.nzbnordic.org
http://www.nzbs.org
http://www.nzbs4u.com
http://www.nzbsite.com
http://www.nzbsrus.com
http://www.nzbtube.net
http://www.sexynzb.com
http://www.spuds-nzb-forum.com
http://www.stylenzb.org
http://www.thenzbplace.com
http://www.twilightnzb.com
http://www.uk-nzbs.com
http://www.xxxtremenzb.com
superdubious – you did good, bud!
DOGS OF WAR are awakening.
http://nzbxxx.com
the client that i use has a very good search tool within it, newsleecher.
sad day. I was there from the start, even did a little reporting work for them. was very useful over the years.
If the source does show up, I would definitely run the service on my servers – free of charge. I hope many others would do the same… create an unstoppable face to access the usenet in whatever way one chooses. Freedom of Information, Freedom of Choice.
HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PAYMENTS FROM NEWZBIN
After all the posts on here about people whining with regards to their lost credit on newzbin I offer the following guide.
Firstly, you enterd into a contract with newzbin to access their service which was an indexing of the usenet facility. Your first step would be to prove that while the company lasted and before it went into liquidation, they failed to provide this service. This would be (most likely) achieved through the UK small claims court.
You will be required to provide details of how newzbin broke this contract while the company was in existance.
As you will no doubt be aware, you cannot use the legal system to claim any money back that has or was used to support an activity that is deemed to be illegal. Now, as all you newzbin users know, no one used newzbin to download any material that was in breech of copyright laws. This makes it relatively easy to claim your money back from an existing credit.
After proving that newzbin broke their contract with you (the consumer) , you must then prove that you used the indexing service to download copyright free material. Either that provided free of copyright by another person or you downloaded your own material that you had uploaded in the first place to which you own the copyright. This can be easily accomplished by contacting your ISP which will record all uploads and downloads of each and every file.
If you are successful in your legal claim, this ruling will be passed on to the administrators (not the people who set up the site but those who are now running the organisation) and placed in the queue.
I wish you all the best of luck. I have about £1.50 outstanding (approx $4) and I have already filed my claim with the small claims court. This claim has cost me £250 to put through the court system but it is worth every penny because I never downloaded anything that was copyrighted and always followed the rules explicitly…
.. I love British sarcasm.
Good luck with all your court claims – self absorbed, self obsessed teenage toss pots. Despite what you may think about yourself, you really are not that important in the whole scheme of things, but anyway, good luck with your claim.
Damn … I had so many good moments with Newzbin and XXX. Thank you Newzbin, for teaching me, with a nice .avi, that it is possible for a tapir to have sex with a moman.
Huh..
Maybe this was a sign – now go out and drink some beers.
“why dont you guys just shut the fuck up and quit posting other nzbsites!! you stupid fucking cunts. people like `YOU are the reason these sites are going down in the first place. MIKE W – you should be shot and your mother raped with barbwire”
Hey, moron. If you really think the MPA, MPAA, RIAA, and the others don’t know that others exist out there just by doing a simple Google search, then I have some ocean front property to sell you here in Minnesota.
Make sure brain is engaged before putting mouth in gear
Read what you have written and apply to yourself 🙂
like they dont know allready you mug
all you have to do is google nzb sites
briangw is King Mug of Mugland! “Don’t talk about NZB sites!”. Can you hear yourself, you numpty?
Pecker, keep on smoking that crack biatch! 🙂
And, I was replying to Raycroft above. You all happen to know what quotations are????
my bad, but you still a mug even if you do agree
ballsackface, Hell no, I don’t agree. Been paying for the site for like 6 years!
I have been using this for about 2 years now, this site will be deeply missed, so sad that it has had to close, oh well, it was fun while it lasted, good luck to the people who ran it, and I hope everything goes ok for you all.
From a loyal member
usenetscene.com
this is the next big thing you guys. just be patient, they are working as hard as they cant 24/7 to get it running. they do all they can to deliever you a fine working sys.
rip newzbin !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! time to start new ones
Silly monkeys – change initiates innovation. I for one would be willing to assist in the development of something new… rather than bitching about what was or what was lost – put your energy into starting something new and better.
Then again, we’re all a bunch of pathetic lechers that expect everything done for us while we literally sit back and reap the rewards of someone else’s hard work. Does that attitude really deserve something to replace newzbin?
If nothing else, this thread along has demonstrated to those with some initiative, there is a great deal of money to be made here. Newzbin was a steal – the posts here prove people would pay double, triple, or more for the service to return!
A dark week for sure. Then again, “Its better to have loved and lost… “
I had 347 days of credit left i hope the fucking MPA, MPAA, RIAA are happy at making all newzbin’s users lose their money i just hope the newzbin team got it and spent it before them thieving bastards did.
R.I.P newzbin you will be missed.
can’t believe people are calling the Newzbin folks ‘scammers’!
Do you think they planned this????
They even froze our accounts…translation: FREE ACCESS TO THEIR SITE.
I fully support their decision not to refund anyone’s money….the service they provided was worth 10 times the price I paid for it.
TO NEWZBIN:
THANK YOU FOR THE INCREDIBLE SERVICE YOU PROVIDED.
YOU WILL BE MISSED.
fuck raycroft, keep posting more newzbin sites. thanks …
Yeah, but as several people have tried to say, the MPA and whoever are most likely watching this forum, so if we post alternative sites, possibly those that the MPAA etc. don’t already know about, we are bringing them to their attention, I am sure that we can all find alternative sites on our own without advertising them on here and bringing them to “their” attention so they can go and give them site owners aggro.
Just my tuppence worth there, let’s keep this forum civil please, we are all here for the same reason, because we were all users of Newzbin and are all saddended to see it gone.
Duke University Shutting Down Usenet Server
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Duke-University-Usenet-Server-Newsgroups,news-6847.html
I had 500+days on my credits but hey life is like that just when you thought it was all ok this happens. it was good while it lasted lets hope the guys who brought it to us will re surface with something better
The people who went after and took the site down think they have a victory, the battle may be won but the war goes on.
The world is full of kings and queens who blind your eyes and steal your dreams
(Heaven & Hell)
So long old friend, youll be sadly missed. R.I.P.
Lets hope the stolen Newzbin code surfaces soon and more NZB sites come along.
Is Soulseek still going ?????
u are an idiot and hypocrite.
I’m glad they’re gone. Next time don’t try to make money off rls groups and others cracking and ripping and others that are doing all the uploading while your sitting back counting your coin from their work.
Either way it doesn’t matter…10 others will be along to replace them. Thats just the way it is.
briangw is my new idol. THANK YOU!!!
I honestly don’t know what to say 🙂
In my German Usenet forum you will find all messages of Newzbin in original English.
http://forum.usenet-guide.de/viewtopic.php?t=1062
I loved Newzbin. I hope, they will find a way for a new start.
http://www.TheNewzBin.com
theyre going to set shit up just like newzbin.com supposedly
no subscription feez!
Top Five Newzbin Alternatives
http://www.slyck.com/story1928_Top_Five_Newzbin_Alternatives
newzbin was the worst thing which happened to usenet
newsgroups got unstructured with boneless absorbing everything, posters don’t care about proper subjects
and all that for a guy to get several millions of $$$ with bits to two other admins
usenet access is also more expensive because of advertising distortion and affilicate commission kickbacks, even free indexing sites run on advertising money which in the end come from user pockets.
without agressive advertising we could have usenet provider price in the range $5-$6 per month with giganews lowering prices or out of the game.
Raycroft you Prick!!!
Merlins is going down next followed by NZBs RUS.
yes newzbin was the best, all the rest suck donkey dick. realy they do. as 4 u whinners. go fuck ur self with ur fist. ur telling me u would not offer something, open a limited co. pay urself a hefty salary and keep ur co. in dept and if some shit happend walk away laghfing. u thing ur the only ones with problems. shit were i live i have 2 internet providers one is $52 a month the other is $10 a month. they both got rid of there news feed line, so i had to find a connection to the news groups which is $17 a month + my 10 + my $1.25 a month still i saved thousands of $ in 2.5 years. not here me crying about my money. all governments fuck u in the ass. go cry to them about the shit they pull. this site was attacked because the man wants control of the internet. dumb the masses. they want to control what info we can access, they don’t want us to get edjamakated. they want us to be SHEEPLE
Grabit has a search service for $2 a month. Search for an NZB file, DL it and use it for your DL all from same program.
Newzbin should release an Application to install on your PC.
Everyday it should “fetch” the Newzbin database (from a Newsgroup!)
All Newzbin need to do is prepare the data every 24h and upload it anonymously of course!
This way Newzbin would still exist albeit 1 day behind and I cant see how they could shut this down as long as the server location was “secret” if u get me…
I couldnt sleep yesterday! Couldnt stop think about my lost money on newzbin. I thought long and hard how i could get it back. I came up with the weirdest ideads, but there wasnt the golden way.
Probably I wont get my money back. I hope Casesium, Klante and Freaky those bastards, those motherfuckers will get Cancer, the worst kind of Cancer that there is. I hpe their kids get killed and their parents get paralyized.
That they worry till they cant sleep and cant bare the stress anymore and think about killing themself and leaving their families with nothing, that they suffer such pain that they cant enjoy nothing anying, that everything for them will be struggle.
R.I.P Newzbin, been a faithful member almost since you opened, you will be missed.
For all those saying you want your money back, stfu basically, you wont sue them for £3, in the UK to do so would cost you £120 to post a Small Claims Court Case, like that’s going to happen for the £3 outstanding on your account.
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On a more fluffy note –
” Had interesting side channel discussions on irc with Mr Code Thief. Initially, yesterday, he approached me and said he had the site code and databases. I thought he was probably a clown. Today he PM’d me with several lines of code. Caesium has just confirmed that these lines of code ARE from the site source code.
via deepsharer
”
Source:
http://www.usenetshack.com/newzbin-source-code-leak-confirmed-its-out-wild-somewhere/
Looks like there might be some light at the end of the tunnel…
I still had over 300+ days left on my account BUT I’m happy with the sevice and sorry to see that it’s been taken down. I don’t worry about the money I would have been happy to pay twice as much if it would have kept them in business.
This court action is a waste of time for the victors. Many others will spring up in it’s place and for that matter are already there.
Good luck to them is all that I can say
(I still had over 300+ days left on my account BUT I’m happy with the sevice and sorry to see that it’s been taken down. I don’t worry about the money I would have been happy to pay twice as much if it would have kept them in business.
This court action is a waste of time for the victors. Many others will spring up in it’s place and for that matter are already there.
Good luck to them is all that I can say )
well said Dragonwales
[…] The announcement links to a blog post that contains additional information about the case. Things are moving fast at everyones favourite Usenet indexer Newzbin. A Newzbin Editor let slip some interesting gossip to me on IRC. Apparently Newzbin has been put into administration yesterday because it couldn’t pay its debts. Word is that they owe the MPA £230,000 just in interim costs, and that’s without a full costs ruling or a decision on damages. Apparently they also owe a software development house over £500k. They also stopped taking payments a few weeks back. […]
Best money I spent in ages. It saved time and effort and will be sorely missed.
Raycroft you really are a numpty,do you imagine they do not know about these sites?
fuck it i’ll join in too. Raycroft you fcking nob-munching fuck-wit bitch, I hate you!!!
RIP Newzbin…
new nag3 card in the post this morning and then found out about Newzbin 2 pieces of bad news in 1 day is 2 much
newsleecher has a search, which costs.
but i have a keygen for 3.9 and it never runs out.
if you want a copy cracks21@hotmail.com
Indeed a sad day. The internet is no longer free to us anymore. I wish the world would adopt Spain’s philosophy. If YOU host illegal content…you’re toast. If you simply point on a map where you can find it then well…that’s just public knowledge. Aren’t newsgroups part of free speech? Newsgroups were created for users to share data regardless of the content.
It is like arresting someone for telling you where you can get a prostitute in Vegas. Not that I’ve ever done that or anything…I’m just saying lol.
[…] Usenet indexer is linking to a blog post which has additional details on Newzbin’s […]
Sad but i enjoy every penny i payed
Good going obama fucktards. This is just a sampling of the type of freedoms your gonna lose if the demrats get their way with everything. Say goodbye to FREEDOM
You’re kidding, right? It’s the Republicans who side with the MPAA and for regulating the internet… Obama’s web platform is clearly in favor of Net Neutrality. PS – I’m not American.
Hi
Look at NZBMATRIX maybe just not the same as NEWZBIN but gtive it a try only £7/$10 one off payment and it as a 650 days retention.
Cheers
Robert
I love how people are moaning that the guys made money off Newzbin. So a few guys created a site that hundred of thousands of users can use, and get movies, tv shows etc for next to nothing and they begrudge them making money off it. Isnt that how the world works?
If you didnt like Newzbin or the fact the guys running it were making money, stop paying for access. Simple. I suspect alot of comments in here tho are from people trying to act “cool”
nzbmatrix sucks.
upgraded to VIP, used it for a week, then dropped it, nothing which you cannot get for free.
666 😀
To the MPAA, RIA, Software devs, etc and others reading this blog. There are other sites out there charging people for access…don’t forget about them! Sue them and get your money back!
http://www.nzbsrus.com
http://nzbmatrix.com
If you charge money to access illegal files you should go down.
The famous wizard from the Arthurian tales/portal is the besat free index site IMO.
And as for jumping on the band wagon about refunds…
SUCK MA COCK
SUCK MA COCK
SUCK MA COCK YOU CUNTS!
SUCK MA COCK
SUCK MA COCK
SUCK MA COCK YOU UNGRATEFUL CHEAPSKATE BASTARD FUCK CUNTS
Ow, I lost 2 quid that an invaluable service now has…THE HUMANITY!
WHINGE CUNTS!
you son of a bitch (your mother is a fucking cheap whore)
we got scammed but this fuckers, you dumb shit – they made a million pound a year. year after year – A MILLION POUND!
now they wont even pay their bills, pay their debts (pay us our credits back)
You dumbass need to learn the difference between turnover and profit …
My mother is not a cheap whore, she’s high class you prick.
Your father was a cock sucking rent boy selling his ass for cheap liquor and crack. How does it feel to be the spawn of a hopeless seedy muck monger ? Eh, you reprobate spawn of scum ?
with comcast recent court victory in asserting their right to send reset packets to torrenters, and the FCC unwilling to reclassify internet under their pervue then soon internet companies will simply block all NZB sites. No one can stop them, unless americans actually savetheinternet.com.
if you ever do anything do it NOW.
Caseium, Kalente and Freaky are fucking robbers. They stole our money.
We didnt get what we paid for!
Scumbags, die slowly and painfully.
Cheap asshole. Feel sorry for your disability pension?
You fucking retard.
Do you actually understand what is going on your prick. Hope you fucking die you cunt.
Anyone please give me alternative sites that are good as newzbin?
There’s nothing as good …
Just got email this….
Hi ex-Newzbin user.
Lamenting the departed site? Dreading doing Usenet the old skool way? Think the clone NZB sites suck?
Good news: we are Newzbin Two, and we have glad tidings:
NEWZBIN IS BACK! and we are the new management. The crew got most of the original Newzbin source code and the main databases.
We loved it too much to let it die.
The catch? We wont be up for a very short while cos things need to be done. For starters we need a cool domain name; also we need to hack on the code some more to make it run. We are nearly there but it is very complicated. We reckon we’ll up very soon.
So don’t drift off to those lame-ass wannabe NZB sites. Hang on for a little longer and the Big Dog will be back.
For news keep an eye on these news sites:
https://deepsharer.wordpress.com/
http://www.usenetshack.com/
http://torrentfreak.com/
Mr White
Team R Dogs/Newzbin2
Ok, so it seems they have our e-mail addresses. Does this mean they have our names, addresses and credit card numbers as well, since all this had to be supplied to buy credit on Newzbin.
yes, it does mean that 😦
Anyone else just get this email?
Hi ex-Newzbin user.
Lamenting the departed site? Dreading doing Usenet the old skool
way? Think the clone NZB sites suck?
Good news: we are Newzbin Two, and we have glad tidings:
NEWZBIN IS BACK! and we are the new management. The crew got most
of the original Newzbin source code and the main databases.
We loved it too much to let it die.
The catch? We wont be up for a very short while cos things need
to be done. For starters we need a cool domain name; also we
need to hack on the code some more to make it run. We are nearly
there but it is very complicated. We reckon we’ll up very soon.
So don’t drift off to those lame-ass wannabe NZB sites. Hang on
for a little longer and the Big Dog will be back.
For news keep an eye on these news sites:
https://deepsharer.wordpress.com/
http://www.usenetshack.com/
http://torrentfreak.com/
Mr White
Team R Dogs/Newzbin2
Well, another? file sharing site gone.
Guess you folks will have to actually PAY for your content, no more downloading dvd’s. Thieves always get caught..
Get with the time dude, this will not stop anything… Nothing or no one will, if all the copyright holders embraced the 21st century just like the end users have, then things would be a lot different, i.e. lowered the prices and timescales. Its not as if usenet is cheap! People are willing to pay! People just don’t want to get ripped off!
just got this email so i guess someone at least got their db.
Hi ex-Newzbin user.
Lamenting the departed site? Dreading doing Usenet the old skool
way? Think the clone NZB sites suck?
Good news: we are Newzbin Two, and we have glad tidings:
NEWZBIN IS BACK! and we are the new management. The crew got most
of the original Newzbin source code and the main databases.
We loved it too much to let it die.
The catch? We wont be up for a very short while cos things need
to be done. For starters we need a cool domain name; also we
need to hack on the code some more to make it run. We are nearly
there but it is very complicated. We reckon we’ll up very soon.
So don’t drift off to those lame-ass wannabe NZB sites. Hang on
for a little longer and the Big Dog will be back.
For news keep an eye on these news sites:
https://deepsharer.wordpress.com/
http://www.usenetshack.com/
http://torrentfreak.com/
Mr White
Team R Dogs/Newzbin2
Anhonestjoe should look up what Newzbin did it was not an P2P site but just a plane old indexing site, because the film industry could not get to the Usenet providers they hit at someone who just index them.
giganews
Just got this email:
Subject Newzbin Two!
Hi ex-Newzbin user.
Lamenting the departed site? Dreading doing Usenet the old skool
way? Think the clone NZB sites suck?
Good news: we are Newzbin Two, and we have glad tidings:
NEWZBIN IS BACK! and we are the new management. The crew got most
of the original Newzbin source code and the main databases.
We loved it too much to let it die.
The catch? We wont be up for a very short while cos things need
to be done. For starters we need a cool domain name; also we
need to hack on the code some more to make it run. We are nearly
there but it is very complicated. We reckon we’ll up very soon.
So don’t drift off to those lame-ass wannabe NZB sites. Hang on
for a little longer and the Big Dog will be back.
For news keep an eye on these news sites:
https://deepsharer.wordpress.com/
http://www.usenetshack.com/
http://torrentfreak.com/
Mr White
Team R Dogs/Newzbin2
Great news if true, signed up to Nzbmatrix but miss the functionality of Newzbin.
Why am I getting these unprofessional and unsolicited emails from Team R Dogs / Newzbin2?
Same here. Very odd…
Same here…
If these guys are not Newzbin, how the hell did they get our email addresses?
It is very disturbing that someone else has our information now. And from what I can deduce from the way the email was written, it’s definately doesn’t sound like a legitimate company, but rather someone living in mom’s basement.
newzbin’s database got stolen and this “team r dogs” have all of your personal information.
better put a fraud alert on your name to the credit report agencies.
WE NEED ALTERNATIVES PLZ TELL
got the same message, sounds like a successful grab/hack of the members database, arguably one of the most valuable bits… hope no credit card details were stored unsecurely
Newbin didnt store Credit card numbers – it was handed off to a third party payment processor as I recall
The MPAA and RCA can die!!!!!
yup got my email as well
Hi ex-Newzbin user.
Lamenting the departed site? Dreading doing Usenet the old skool
way? Think the clone NZB sites suck?
Good news: we are Newzbin Two, and we have glad tidings:
NEWZBIN IS BACK! and we are the new management. The crew got most
of the original Newzbin source code and the main databases.
We loved it too much to let it die.
The catch? We wont be up for a very short while cos things need
to be done. For starters we need a cool domain name; also we
need to hack on the code some more to make it run. We are nearly
there but it is very complicated. We reckon we’ll up very soon.
So don’t drift off to those lame-ass wannabe NZB sites. Hang on
for a little longer and the Big Dog will be back.
For news keep an eye on these news sites:
https://deepsharer.wordpress.com/
http://www.usenetshack.com/
http://torrentfreak.com/
Mr White
Team R Dogs/Newzbin2
I have just had an email saying:
Hi ex-Newzbin user.
Lamenting the departed site? Dreading doing Usenet the old skool
way? Think the clone NZB sites suck?
Good news: we are Newzbin Two, and we have glad tidings:
NEWZBIN IS BACK! and we are the new management. The crew got most
of the original Newzbin source code and the main databases.
We loved it too much to let it die.
The catch? We wont be up for a very short while cos things need
to be done. For starters we need a cool domain name; also we
need to hack on the code some more to make it run. We are nearly
there but it is very complicated. We reckon we’ll up very soon.
So don’t drift off to those lame-ass wannabe NZB sites. Hang on
for a little longer and the Big Dog will be back.
For news keep an eye on these news sites:
https://deepsharer.wordpress.com/
http://www.usenetshack.com/
http://torrentfreak.com/
I think this email is bullshit. It is probably from other NZB related website that you happen to be signed up to. I think this email is spam send out to lots of people hoping that they will hit people who used to use Newzbin. I don’t believe the site was hacked. I don’t believe anyone has a database of user accounts. They definately do not have credit card data of Newzbin users. Whoever sent this email is probably trying to setup some cheap imitation of Newzbin and is trying to cash in by trying to get traffic from ex-Newzbin users.
Lets buy rock island and form new country. lets not keep any formal contacts with anybody and then reopen website or just move it to venezuela
It is very disturbing that someone else has our information now. And from what I can deduce from the way the email was written, it’s definately doesn’t sound like a legitimate company, but rather someone living in mom’s basement.
That, if you knew your history, is exactly how Newzbin started.
Wow I got that e-mail too. In my spam folder. Probable belongs there and should be deleted. “The crew got most
of the original Newzbin source code and the main databases.
We loved it too much to let it die.” hacked and stole it they should have said… Probable a good thing to give them a wide miss!!!
Bye Bye Newzbin you were the best!!!
No they did not get the code….
I t Was given to them….
[…] many months battling against the authorities Newzbin finally closed their doors, linking out to a blog page with details on the closure and possible future […]
I did NOT get my email.
I was a member for years.
please post alternative or contents of email to me.
send to guideillusio@verizon.net
It’s a sad sad day for Usenet. You guys at Newzbin are welcome to keep the balance on my account. I got my moneys worth and then some from your service.
NZBMatrix is ok, but not up to the caliber of service provided by Newzbin.
makes me worried that someone has my email addy and Newzbin can keep everything from me .
Pont – just because you downloaded a .nzb, does not prove you used that .nzb to download it’s contents.
Too bad – newzbin was great as was newzxxx.
Team R Dogs/Newzbin2 [NewzbinRedux@gmail.com] is spamming users claiming to have a new site up soon
comments on here about refunds makes me mad, i wasn’t a member, i use nzbs r us, but how many £’s worth of content have you downloaded through them that you wouldn’t have found yourself, or without a lot of hassle at least. every one in this world is becoming more ungratefull by the minute, and yes i’m a bit pissed, but fuk it.
> Hi ex-Newzbin user.
Newzbin admins were making $2M a year.
Put yourself on their place.
Most likely this is them themselves probing the venues of renewing the game.
Or in another words – testing the limits of the English law.
In any case they didn’t give away the code involuntarely and unlikely someone stole it given how much trouble leaked user email list caused to them in the future.
I guess better they were underground from the beginning.
For $2M / year many people would lose mind and start playing with fire.
i was only able to use newzbin for about one year. I could care less about free stuff for myself. however, my kids love me. the wii, ds’s, and pc’s are full of media for their enjoyment!! The integration from sabnzbd made this a marriage made in heaven. So fuck the few dollars I lost. I would have gladly paid more for the service as it is obvious how much I saved on useless shit that society stuffs down our childrens throats! In short. Thank you newzbin creators and contributors. You are missed!
newzbin would be easy to recreate if to manage to attract enough editors.
the automatic part with 240 days retention wasn’t up to the industry standards.
one needs to start with a free site hosted in a safe country with flexible name with the capability to relocate fast, recruit editors, after manual part is working and there is large enough user base – to rewrite automatic part to increase retention.
THE BEST OF THE REST.
my goodness…[sigh] i was there when i refreshed the page and then i got kicked out.
refresh again.
to my demise and terrible surprise the site closed down. what a tragedy. just when i was searching for Einstürzende Neubauten, damn it!
love you all. it was great. newzbin was like a friend to me.
no e-mail in my box………….
arrgh..
the fatfucks are having a good laugh watching all the bellyaching & discontent among those who do & do not want a refund. they are chuckling and snorting every time someone makes an inane suggestion to not post names of alternate sites..
mention as many sites as you can think of. the mpaa/riaa have hired guns who have found or will find them anyway. every site they take to court will cost ‘em a piece of their pile. the more sites they find, the more expense they’ll have. at some point they’ll see that their cost/effect ratio has plummeted, and produced a motherfucker of a nosebleed. newzbin was targeted only after months of investigation and evaluation. because of their loyal following, reputation, and professionism, they were selected so to be made AN EXAMPLE which hopefully will frighten others into shutting down and prevent new start-ups from forming. it was a done deal before the first filing, everyone who needed to be paid off in order to secure a win was paid more than a year prior. that’s why all those greasy hollywood fucks arrived to court daily with the same condescending smirk on their faces; they knew the fix was in. targeting newzbin was an ECONOMIC choice made by a bunch of fat slobbering assholes who’s greed is surpassed only by their dishonesty. their every step is governed by economics and the never-ending fear that someone will steal their pile when they’re sleeping.. someone will steal. their pile.
who exactly are these guys? and where exactly are they?
these are the topics they fear we’ll discuss, more than anything else in the whole wide world. their anonymity (to them) is priceless.
call out the dogs of war..
All Great things come to a end! dammit!
Thank you newzbin! for all your hard work.
I will miss you more than my wife!
p.s. MPAA GO FUCK YOURSELF!
The Warez movement will never DIE!
the MPAA can Knock us down, but you will never knock us out!
remember the warez group PWA = Pirates with Attitudes
DONT FUCK WITH US!!!!!! long live the warez!
fuk u newzbin. give me back my money fukers.
Sad news !!! I would be happy to pay up to $50.00 to keep Newzbin alive. Worth thinking about for all the info and work they do for us. Sure that if everyone did the same that would help them out and keep them going
Also got the email. Can anyone confirm that Team R Dogs is not in possession of our credit cards?
The newzbin leechers are lazy morons.
The newzbin editors are fools, it is they who filled the site with content, and the fucking admin didn’t give them even one share to benefit from the fruits of their work pocketing millions out of their free labor.
The newzbin admin is genius, he managed to fuck you all.
you are absolutely right. they made A MILLION POUND A YEAR, paid 300k pound to the shareholders, which are basically only the 3 admins (kalente, freaky, caesium)
the editors get fooled, they get nothing and were happy with it, because they thought there was nothing.
the fucker caesium always whined on IRC how they have no money, how they have to use their own money to pay the bills sometimes. he always behaved as if he is doing the community a favour.
the fucker got rich, made every year 300.000 POUNDS. he is laughing off his ass now about all this. the debts are on the limited company, which means he hasnt got to pay a single dime back!
the cost of running the site cannot be 700K pounds a year.
it is difficult to imagine running the site would cost more than $2K a month.
given no actual files were downloaded, only nzb indices, the trafic wasn’t so big and comparable to running phpBB.
if retention wasn’t updated, it means they didn’t update hardware for some time.
thus more money were siphoned through other channels like “software house” – i guess into the same pockets.
there is no problem with earning, the issue was systematic lying to the users and to the editors in particular with the greed as the main reason behind.
good point
And you sir are an A$$hole. So close your sphincter and stop talking crap!
Anytime you want to guys want to stop spouting bullshit figures on earnings, feel free to take the time to realize that limited liability companies in the UK have to file annual returns, and that information is publicly available.
And anytime you guys want to make claims about what compensation editors didn’t get, you should add the disclaimer “But I wasn’t a editor for any significant time, so I don’t actually have a fucking clue what I’m talking about.”, otherwise it gets confusing.
From many years talking to them, I can tell you that the majority of editors didn’t make reports out of any sense of charity for Newzbin. An average editor had an interest in usenet and eventually gained an expertise that regular users lacked.
Top reasons editors have told me why they edited (in no particular order)
1) Got free use of the site.
2) Got to see xxx and regular indexes together (like the old days) on a single site.
3) Got access to exclusive editor-only server.
4) Got free shell accounts (select editors).
5) Got free giganews accounts (select editors).
6) Got access to exclusive IRC channels with unfettered access to the site admins.
7) Got other occasional more significant rewards that I don’t feel appropriate to disclose, they were however discussed in the court case.
8) Were building NZBs for their own use anyway, so what harm is 3 seconds additional work to make it into a report?
9) Liked the competition of ranking between editors
10) Liked being elevated from simply ‘user’ status.
11) Enjoyed being selfless cool and helpful people, not whiny tards who bitch about loosing 2c a day when the site closed or the fact that people made a living from running a company.
12) Got that warm and fuzzy feeling when they found something unique on usenet and thought “wow, that looks cool, I should tell someone about it”, and were able to when they made the report.
For the whiners… just remember, for every $ you spent on newzbin, you spent about 20 times that amount on NSPs and ISPs, does it irk you that they too make profits???
Would everything really have been that much easier in your lives if Newzbin was say, half the price, or one tenth of the price that it turned out to be?… cos if so, you lead a shitty peasant life.
SHEEPLE WAKE THE FUCK UP!!!!!
newzbin did not fuck u over. the man did. if u know anthing about bussness.limited co. makes money, u pay urself salary, any bull shit the co. takes the hit not peaple running co. and if in same shoes u would’nt want to make money? if so, i bow 2 u. ur a better man than me. do stuff 4 free. hey come build me a garage 4 free yhen my good man. just as i thought, CHEAP MOTHER FUCKER. UR STEALING JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE 4 MERE PENNIES A DAY. cheap cunt. our government bends u over the couch, fist fucks 4 hours, and u must love every min. of it, caus i don’t here u bitchn about them rippn u of. bunch of whinney fags.
THE NEWZBIN ADMINS WERE CONSTANTLY LYING!!!
FUCKING LIAR
now what about all the whining and complaining how you havent any money to get new faster servers, or more ressources to increase rentention. we have no money, we are short on – FUCK THAT YOU PIECE OF SHIT CAESIUM!! — LIAR!!
is that really necessary, i mean you guys made a MILLION POUND a year from newzbin. was it necessary to steal our money, our credits on newzbin.
couldnt you be so fair and paid us back, you made for many year millions of pounds by our money. now you even have to fucking steal from us?
my god you cheap ass fuk, for the pennies the guys charged us for a superb service u want the pittance back, what about helping them out in there time of need ? they footed the bill for our courtcase as they got sued for us downloading, forward me your paypal and ill give you 5 bucks u ingrate. Go and join Nzbmatrix u cheap asshole its right up your street.
Go Play with your PS3 or XBox.
Loser!
“Steal from us” and you were doing what??? Helping the poor and hungry of the world downloading Gigs of shite.
Three words dipshit.. Pot Kettle Black.
Your mother threw the best part of you away!
So you didnt want them to make money off an excellant service that they put the majority of the last few years maintaining?
You want them to do it all for free just to make you happy?
Yes… relax and clean your mouth… – it is really not big bucks we lost. Thanks to NEWZBIN for excellent service during the years…. If they earned money… fine with me…!
Why don’t you stop moaning and get on with it. You paid very little for an excellent service and got more than your moneys worth and now youre crying! Take your fucking ball home then! you seem to forget, they have only cut the tale off the beast. You seriously think that another newzbin isnt going to pop up? There is too many people who like me object to the price of cd’s dvd’s etc and are sick of watching so called talented stars driving cars and living the fast life that I fucking paid for!!
Long live newsgroups and leeching!
The king is dead, Long Live the king!
Thx for the years of great service !, the money is not a problem they earned it 110%. Its a damn shame ! There much more site around they offer the same content ? Why newzbin ? stupid bastards, this wont solve your site of problem !!
Thx newzbin for the years !
@newzbin betraying
they’re in ADMINISTRATION you stupid fucking cuntwhore(or c11 as you may know it)!
why dont you find out the administrators and write them asking for your money.you might get 1penny in each pound you’re owed.stupid cunt.
i lost £5 big whoop.gained that in ONE HOUR leeching.
HAHA you think the SC was stolen?come on you lot THINK for fuck sake.
10 clones by monday morning.
im going to BBQ the hellout of meat and then drinking beer until i pass out.27c suck my balls im in HEAVEN
http://thestra.telon.net/caesium_official_statement.txt
Nice,,
Good for him…
I hope that the source is in the Public Domain. Can’t wait to see the MPAA deal with the onslaught of NZB Clones.
When will they learn…
We should all be thankful to the Pioneers at Newzbin.
Sadly sadly a great friend has now gone from my day to day life, it was a service second to none on which you could rely, I for one could care less about the few pounds & pence I’m out of pocket for but being dependent on the search-able database instead of trawling headers by the tens of thousands I do need an alternative, the mean spirited MPAA have done nothing but inconvenienced us, Gods speed to those that will spring up in Newsbins place. I was with them for 8 years.
Chris should have his fucking legs broken the motherfucker. I asked if it was all good in Dec and he encouraged me to top up. I curse him and his bastard family.
I agree bro. I hope their families die a horrible death for ripping people off.
Wow, so many idiots posting comments. If you really want you money back then fill a claims for in. Its only a few quid/dollars ffs.
Why would anyone use usenet when you can simply watch porn on tube sites like: http://pornoobs.com/
Found a good alternative, same functions and a lot of posts…
FTD + NZBuddy.
More info: http://www.nzbuddy.nl/
Anyone who wishes death to somebody because of a few lost dollars should really really really search for psychiatric help.
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NEWSBIN – A GOD AMONGST MEN. THE PAYMENT WAS FOR A GOOD CAUSE- LIKE ST. JUDE’S ON LEUKEMIA. IF YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT NOT GETTING REFUND FROM NEWSBIN FOR THE SERVICES THEY PROVIDED – YOU SHOULD HAVE DEATH BY BEHEADING.
I cannot believe all the thieves who are complaining about being robbed!
If you feel so strongly why not give back the money you owe the movie and music companies and software houses for all you’ve downloaded over the years.
Newsbin made it easy for me to get movies, mp3s PC, DS Wii, Xbox games, ebooks and all sorts of software over the years, and charged very little.
I’m hoping the phoenix will rise again, and if it does I’ll continue to support them.
haha yea good point that. People moan about their money being “stolen”, yet have stolen films/music/tv shows by downloading them illegally 😀
Love to all the groups of the scene. This indexer will be missed. There will be another………..
If you REALLY want the few dollars/pounds back that you paid for unused credit, then why not chase your credit card company? I am sure they would laugh at you too 🙂
Sad to see it go, was an amazing site!
Hope the code goes into a worthwhile project.
I had a full year paid, I don’t care about that…what I care about is that no other indexing site comes close to how great newzbin was. They should have released their code, or better yet, moved the servers OFF SHORE. The admins were idiots. Common sense isn’t that common anymore…they knew they were losing a battle, they could have moved everything off shore and put their local company in for bankruptcy. There are tons of countries in the Eastern countries of Europe that look the other way. I thank God that I as abusing usenet like a free hooker over the past month and I got a lot of use out of newzbin before it went down. You cannot fight the corporation when you are helping others steal from them. They have pockets so deep, if you had the resources to fight, you wouldn’t need to run such a site. The sooner people realize this and put their sites where the law can’t touch them, the better. R.I.P. Newzbin, I was a member since year one and I always paid for a year in advance.
nothing will be the same anymore without newzbin
I look forward to newzbin 2!!!!
Dear All,
I have to confess i’m very sad with this loss. above all the money i have lost (not much anyway), i would like to know if there is any other good service that can be compared with newzbin.
all the answers will be very appreciated.
Thanks
M41LB0MB
Newzbin2 ~= MPAA trap to see who was downloading what, you all must learn to be more cautious!
When something seems to good to be true it almost always is, here we are looking for a replacment and like magic there is a solution. Doesn’t it bother anyone that every member of Newzbin appears to have been mailed? Worst case is that this is a sting to catch those who do down load less than legal content, best case is that a bunch of hackers are going to be asking for your credit card info, neither is a safe bet!
Good luck, as for me, I will not use Newzbin 2, seems too good to be true and I can get my anime in other ways as it was legal content.
Also got the email.
Sent reply to their email got no awnser!
AGAIN
Can anyone confirm that Team R Dogs is not in possession of our credit cards?
I was shocked and saddened when I heard the news. Newzbin, you were the greatest. You changed my life in many ways and I always felt taken care of. The guys who ran the outfit were heroes and pioneers in my opinion. I can only hope that whoever has the code and databases is able to recreate what you had created and that they will provide it to the scene at a reasonable cost and with reliable service. You will be sorely missed, Newzbin. I wish all the best to the proprietors and hope you are able to dig yourself out of the financial tsunami that’s coming down on you now.
And as for anyone complaining about refunds of their credits… you need to seriously take a step back and consider the incredible cost ratio of what you saved on “training” and “demo” materials versus what you paid for this service. I’m confident you’ll find that your credits were refunded within the first few times you downloaded your trial copies of software, or publications.
Peace.
Anyone else had an e-mail about Newzbin 2 from Team R Dog?
Newzbin handled creditcards via a third party so they would never see your credit card number. Stop the panic people. Jesus.
Notice how tons of people PAY to use Newzbin and Usenet Providers.
We obviously dont mind PAYING to download
We just wont be ass raped by the MPAA’s prices thats all
The whole thing is Corrupt. The people behind the takedown complain that they lose money when the filthy rich MPAA ba$tards dont even pay taxes in the own countries.
Great Comment – Absolutely – Yep!
anon said “Anyone else had an e-mail about Newzbin 2 from Team R Dog?”
Yeah I did has anyopne got anymore infor on this ??
Hi ex-Newzbin user.
Lamenting the departed site? Dreading doing Usenet the old skool
way? Think the clone NZB sites suck?
Good news: we are Newzbin Two, and we have glad tidings:
NEWZBIN IS BACK! and we are the new management. The crew got most
of the original Newzbin source code and the main databases.
We loved it too much to let it die.
The catch? We wont be up for a very short while cos things need
to be done. For starters we need a cool domain name; also we
need to hack on the code some more to make it run. We are nearly
there but it is very complicated. We reckon we’ll up very soon.
So don’t drift off to those lame-ass wannabe NZB sites. Hang on
for a little longer and the Big Dog will be back.
For news keep an eye on these news sites:
I’m really disapointed that they had to close, they were the ones who guided me thru usenet as I began using it, RIP my friends, 4eva in our hearts!
Good job MPAA, instead of having ONE newzbin in UK wich can be some kind of controlable, now you’ll have like a 100 clones hosted in hong-kong and dubai and stuff…
Like we use to say in France : Shaa, in your face M*F*s ! if you people could start thinking with your brains instead of your wallets, I guess every one could win something.
MPAA retards, you just have created yourselves a bigger problem, ahahahahah!
agree
casium – – –
for your new job why don’t you write a book about your adventure and then they will make a movie out of it
NOT SHOUTING – JUST WANT POST TO STAND OUT
SO EASY TO CALL THE EDITORS FOOLS TAKEN FOR A RIDE – HEY – THANKS FOR ALL OF THE WORK GUYS.
NOT AS GOOD AS NEWSBIN BUT HAVE A LOOK AT:
S’FREE AND THE BEST OF ALL I HAVE FOUND
ANYONE ELSE GOT ANY SUGESTIONS?
PS – Request – Do not be rude to those complaining about loosing a few quid (dollars) – They are either too young to have come back to their house or car to find it robbed or trashed… or they might be autistic… either way please be kind to sad bastards who can’t do better, just now. 🙂
NOT AS GOOD AS NEWSBIN BUT HAVE A LOOK AT:
S’FREE AND THE BEST OF ALL I HAVE FOUND
Erm…have you bothered to check the latest updates on that site????? Not being rude, mind you.
Please tell me more – I know enough to get by, but… You seem to be more up to speed.
Thanks for being ‘not rude’ 🙂
well, the most recent nzb they carry is about 400+ days old
“well, the most recent nzb they carry is about 400+ days old”
How did I miss that?
Doh!
No, I didnt get the email about newbin 2….howcome? i’ve been a user for about 5 years now…dammit i want in on newzbin 2!
Nor did I…and I’ve been a subscriber about five years too. Maybe it’s all a hoax.
It most likely went straight to your spam folder. Especially if you use gmail.
No email to me either and I had been there for 2.5 + years and I double checked my spam.
It may be coming from another source or maybe it was only a partil hack that didnt get all the names.
I dont know what everyone is so worried about. I will say it again: IT IS NOT ILLEGAL TO DOWNLOAD NZB FILES.
What a downer eh ! Yes, have spent the past 10 years or so ‘hopping’ from Knapster to Bearshare to.. then a good friend explained newsgroups and then , voila Newzin ! Not such a gr8 choice as Torrents but with a 50 meg pipe , who cares !! Now the bastards have latched onto newsgroups, is nothing sacred ? The usenet and newsgoups have been here for yonks, why can’t they leave alone eh! RIP newzbin, I second all those who say ‘stop whining those who are be-moaning their lost credit’ we got thousands of times that back in free stuff… The filth will always be one step behind tho’ as already found more good newgroup indexers that don’t seem to worried about what they index 🙂
.. Like an earlier posted said ( and made me chuckle ) ..”. So Long, and thanks for all the Fish !!!” – indeed
@caterpillar..thats funny… ” IT IS NOT ILLEGAL TO DOWNLOAD NZB FILES.”
Tell that to NEWZBIN
Maybe not illegal to dload as no one has been done for that – YET. But wake up and smell the coffee on the burner will you. If Indexing NZB’s is…for Fooks sake the MPAA has sure as hell got a better case against you for downloading the actual content and you having a library of BluRay discs of movies you haven’t paid for!!
The closure of Newzbin for providing what effectively was “Signposts” is Draconian at best and you can all whinge and whine about it but it aint going away..at least not without a revolution to stop this corporate led BS and the justice system allowing them to make/interpret laws up, as they go along!.
I will seriously miss this site as it was the one place I visited everyday. It is a sad day to see its demise. I wish the best of luck to all who were responsible for the upkeep of newzbin in whatever you do, be it a “nice simple sysadmin or coding job”. So long boys and girls, we salute you.
Tis’ a shame I didn’t know the site even had all these members I thought it was a couple hundred at most. I was a member for sometime. And of coarse you’re going to see people trying to get on the wagon. But TheNewzBin.com definitely does the best job of it. Apparently they’re working on their own code written completely free hand
What is the name of the main dude at Newzbin?
What are the main dudes at Newzbin’s names? Let’s follow them and see what they recommend we do.
Damn… newzbin.com ruled!! Thanks 2 the contributors, it was an absolute pleasure. hope 2 c ya soon!!!
The original site owners have confirmed that, based on source code fragments examined by them, and supplied by a third party, the site source code does appear to have been stolen and is in the hands of unknown parties. An Attack of the Clones imminent?
—
Read between the lines. Newzbin will be resurrected under a new name…
http://www.binsearch.info/
http://www.nzbclub.com/
Both above are damn near as good.
I dropped Newzbin 5-6 years ago
You’ll not miss anything using the 2 above
So sad about Newzbin gonna miss it. Not really bothered about losing credits as I always got them half price anyway.
I hope the owners die and their families die too. Thieves.
Watch this, you gigantic fucking imbecile.
For the record, the top 3 MPAA officers are italian, christian american, and protestant. Formerly one of the tops was a chinese woman. People who say “J$ws” in hollywood are very much the sheep of the world. How about doing some research before you go and claim something you know nothing about.
Hey I could be a supporter of RIAA or MPAA out here bad mouthing Newzbin by asking for money back, calling them thieves, etc to sway some public opinion. Just a thought…
Here’s another, could judges be bribed?
RIP Newzbin
wow I saw this coming 😦 *sigh*. Ah well all I have to say is MPA… epic fail
RIP Newzbin
Open Invitation to any MPAA/RIAA or other DCMA Enforcement agency. Newzbin is/was a provider of an index to content not hosted or stored by them. I have just run searches on Google for everything I would have downloaded via Newzbin. So GOOGLE is now my NZB provider. Please will you (because justice is key here isnt it) go and take Google to court and take them for millions (how many I don’t care as long as it is proportionate to what you have demanded of NEWZBIN). Thanks to GOOGLE I have just downloaded Alice In Wonderland BluRay Edition. If you do this I promise never to dload another NZB…
Newzbin 2 may be not the only trap.
Since admins of newzbin lied about site earnings they also could well lie about logs.
Logs are valuable asset to make legal deals, it is not a fact they didn’t gather them and used or will use them in striking a deal with MPAA to keep their profits or keep their asses out of jail.
So, all newzbin users should be careful not to download anything which can be perceived as illegal. Their history of previous downloads (especially if they downloaded a lot) if revealed to MPAA may be a basis for court order for their current Usenet provider or ISP, in the former case there is no way to hide.
Through your ISP (using your ip adderss in the newzbin download log) MPAA can calculate your usenet provider. And through court order to your Usenet Provider they can log your downloads.
Since the site went down so suddenly, the administrators hide since then and they still own the domain it may well mean that some kind deal is in progress.
Strike on selected NewzBin users is a real possibility.
For example:
http://www.giganews.com/legal/privacy.html
Giganews cooperates fully with law enforcement agencies, yet there must still be a court order before Giganews surrenders member information. The Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution requires a court order to conduct a search and seizure. Giganews will, when requested by law enforcement entities, acknowledge the existence of personal member information, and when requested, provide the technical language to include in the court order, “particularly describing … the property to be seized.” In a criminal investigation Giganews is under a duty not to divulge the fact of the investigation to the member.
CHANGE YOUR ISP/USENET PROVIDER if possible in case something is going on already.
Even if to change usenet provider, MPAA can still find my address with the old ISP, still it is more complicated less likely process.
I’ll change mine asap and will drop Giganews for UNS or astraweb.
Thanks for the tip.
@ROS
Buy some Tin Foil and make a hat! Trust me – it will suit you!
Just wait until we come after you.
Please keep your hard drives ready and your ass lubricated.
Changing it will not help…jeez.
So I buy a car and run around it for 4-5 years registering it every year and filling it with gas at the same gas station. The gas station gets robbed! So to avoid being a possible suspect because I have been going there for 4 years I sell my car and get a different one and start using another gas station.
Too late matey..the CCTV Cameras, the credit card transactions all your data history is still gonna be there, changing it now…funny…bolt the door while the horse is just disappearing over the Horizon.
shut up you goose…………………..how the fuck is it wrong to sign up to a info site? did they host files? no you freak show simple as…………and all over the world you really think people will be scared by american authorities? get a life, and as for calling yurself an “AGENT” what are you like 10? fuckwits like you need stringing up you scaremongering cock.
“Too late matey..the CCTV Cameras, the credit card transactions all your data history is still gonna be there, changing it now…funny…bolt the door while the horse is just disappearing over the Horizon.”
what a total goose talk about show your real colours, go play cowboys and indians or better still fuck off some where under a rock and crawl out when the rain stops, people like you are authorities best friends you stool pigeon freakshow
You have to read this…what a laugh.
Any script kiddies out their looking for a job!
Click to access 69eb2202-b6a1-4a36-855e-a9d29e1edd94.pdf
Interesting job. Caesium is out of work and looking for something legit. How funny woud that be if he applied.l
come on newzbin. atleast for the sacke of us the loyal premium user you should’ve released the source code to public. you guys knew you were going down, yet you held on to couple of lies of codes for nothing. we would’ve had atleast a couple of index sites by now. this was a huge let down.
Sad to see Newzxxx gone. Can someone recommend similar porn sites . Thanks.
dude, get some real action !!!
Hey I just saw you were posted here. Thanks for the good years. You guys sure gained my respect with this whole thing. And as I see it, you guys sure took a big hit, but I had a feeling that justice would prevail. It looks like the mpaa will get what they deserve in the long run. Or really the short run. I bet the thieves that took the code will have hundreds if not thousands of sites up in no time. good luck
That isn’t the original Caesium.
I found some information on the site that was related to my auto trade and was going to sign up then i realized that i didnt know how to use the site. So i was hesitant in paying. I could use some info on how to use the site usenet? anyone have something similar out there. my auto program was tough to find and i only have the update to 2007 on back to 1983…Thank You newzbin for the information i got through another person…It was must needed. Good luck.
SAME AS ABOVE BUT EMAIL reply activated on this email
I have been a member for 8 years, the best site I ever used. I will miss them. I hope we see a site like newzbin again.
What a shame!
Nzbmatrix.com is a good site. Use also, binsearch.info and nzbindex.nl.
R.I.P. Newzbin! 😦
In response to Caesiums official statement:
http://thestra.telon.net/caesium_official_statement.txt
Chris – Just want to say thanks a million for the superb site you coded and ran! I was a member for just over two years, and I can’t see where people are coming from when you say you ripped them off!! Let’s face it, two movies/game/album in a 3 month period and you’re the very least breaking even with your membership prices. Anything more, it’s a bonus! Thanks dude If users were that skint and scared, they should have bought minimum credit each time, or purchased the original item…from a store! – it’s a shame we couldn’t support you more throughout the case! Hope things work out cool for you!
I think Obi Wan Kenobi said it best,
“Strike me down and I shall become more powerful than ever”
Thanks Newzbin.
actually Obi Wan’s exact words were…
“If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine”
get it right 😉
Its true they are so busy celebrating they are having a party the only way they know how! Shafting each other up the A$$ and pretending they are having a lot of fun. Chanting Newzvins dead..we won, we won!
They haven’t heard that Google are readying up their Lawyers and going to show this bunch of Lamers how useless they are!
Going to buy some jars myself…for when they come to my door …hey don’t take my PC away try some of this you funboi’s
Wow, I cant believe some of the fools on here. So you are saying NZB files are illegal and mentioned my Blu Ray catalog? Please enlighten me on to what I downloaded then?
The MPA is not going to sue every user that was on Newzbin. If it tries to sure 700,000 + people, there would be so much backlash that people would probably burn down the theaters.
All the torrent sites were taken down at the MPA didnt go after the users.
The MPAA will continue to go after the easy targets such as Newzbin who was making money and becoming a popular service.
I do think in time, the model will become to not categorize but provider full searches to the usenet with automated scripts to create the NZB. By the time the MPA has enough money to go after the Usenet providers, there will be bigger and better services out there.
The sad thing is outside of some true cheapskates, the majority of people would pay for a legitimate service as long as it offered quickly and for a fair price and no DRM. I want purchase the rights to watch a movie not the rights to “borrow” a particular Blu Ray version which will become obsolete when the next standard is created.
Oh Boy……
Just logged in…tried to log in to Newzbin and been hit with this. I have been using Newsbin for 4 years now, but would still class myself as a noob. I was blissfully unaware of the fact that Newsbin was the only indexer in town!
RIP Newsbin, good luck to the guys who made my Internet connection worthwhile, and to those guys who got the code and DB (and emailed me recently) pull your fingers out and get hacking that code WE NEED you.
[…] by an ex-Newzbin editor, the DeepSharer blog quickly reported a rumor that someone had previously hacked the Newzbin servers and grabbed the source code and several […]
[…] by an ex-Newzbin editor, the DeepSharer blog quickly reported a rumor that someone had previously hacked the Newzbin servers and grabbed the source code and several […]
Newzbin saved me thousands of dollars, their website was unique, superior to any other similiar website, sad to see them go. It’s been a great…8 years? Thank you much.
[…] by an ex-Newzbin editor, the DeepSharer blog quickly reported a rumor that someone had previously hacked the Newzbin servers and grabbed the source code and several […]
well, it is typical of the MPAA to try and pump water from an empty well. When are they going to get it? People that download movies are not going to give the MPAA any money. Either they do not have it or the won’t pay. The Movies are not worth the money. Movies should not carry a copyright. They didn’t before the 1920’s. Since then, these movies producers can throw anything together, slap a title on it and almost force people to buy it. Honestly, if paying customers could walk out of 95% of the movies and get their money back, would they? This is what I mean about forcing us to pay for absolute garbage that is worth 50 cents at most. Even if they got that, they would make millions. It is really a crime
OH U FUCKINK WHINNING BITCHS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! UR ALL FUCKING THEIFS AND SAVED THOUSANDS OF FUCKING$$$$$$$$$$$$. THAT’S WHY THE MAN SHUTR DOWN U DUMB FUCK. IF U CAN’T AFFORD THE SERVICE, TURN ANOTHER TRICK U COCK SMOKER. BETTER YET NEXT TIME UR DEALER BURNS U, COMPLAIN TO HIM. I HOPE THEN BURNS U THEN KICKS THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF U, U FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT. THERE ARE PEOPLE HERE THAT LOST MORE THAN U, AND THEY’RE NOT COMPLAINING. THE PRICE U PAY FOR BEING A THIEF, U FUCKING INGRATE. TRY COMPLAINING ABOUT SOMETHING VALIDE. LIKE TAXES, PRICE OF FOOD UR CELL FONE SERVICE. SOMETHING WORTH COMPLAINING ABOUT. BESIDES U WHINNERS STILL LIVE AT HOME WITH MOMMY. FUCKING BITCHS. UR LUCKY THEY STOPPED TAKING PAYMENTS, THEY COULD HAVE TAKEN PAYMENT RIGHT TILL THE END. THING ABOUT THAT.
To …776. Cpt.Picard……Bloody thick imbisile
If you are going to call someone an imbecile, which ‘Cpt.Picard’ above oh-so-clearly is, then you should at least try to spell the word correctly. Otherwise you might look like a bit of a dick yourself. Of course no one could look as big a dick as the braindead illiterate walking oxygen thief that is Cpt.Picard, but let us try not to sink to his subterranean level of idiocy and ineptitude, eh?
Please, learn to do a spellcheck search….I will not embarrass you further.
is that the best u can do?
I’m no bigger a thief than you. all the whinning is not going to get our money back. there are better thing to complain about was my point. we all lost money, some more than others. like me, theres my account and my girlfriends account which was her christmas gift from me. i’m not complaining. you all saved lots of money. i’m sure there is stuff you bought at the store for 10 dollars usd or so that was a waste. the amount of money you lost was not a waste since you saved a bunch dollars. see i can spell as well as curb the foul mouth. i do have grade 12 education as well as a’m a 3rd year app.
[…] by an ex-Newzbin editor, the DeepSharer blog quickly reported a rumor that someone had previously hacked the Newzbin servers and grabbed the source code and several […]
Its so funny because the MPAA shuts someone down and another one pop’s up so its never going to end and they should have learned that from Torrent sites in the past. One gets shut down and a new on is online weeks later.
Truth is I hope the hackers put it back online BUT I will NOT pay for the service that they stole.
LOL
Me too guys.
I’ll go find myself a nice simple sysadmin or coding job where I don’t have to worry about VAT returns or legal challenges with salary $1.5M or more. Anyone hiring?
I miss you too, guys.
As for real life, chances are I’ll go find myself a nice simple sysadmin or
coding job where I don’t have to worry about VAT returns or legal
challenges. Salary $1.5M up. Anyone hiring?
MPAA WILL HIRE YOU PRICK!!!
$1.5M YOUR ASS!!!
this is not real caesium.
Cptn is obviously a negro.
NEWZBIN2
Even if it is a sting or whatever the fuck it is your forgetting one thing. THEY HAVE OUR EMAIL ADDRESSES! So if every x member of newzbin is getting this newzbin2 message then some person has access to our account information and the logs.
hey fred, what makes you think that? do you see a picture of me? did i say i’m any specifice nationality? i’s obviously that i’m acually white. you should’nt beck off if you have no clue what your talking about. running your mouth off could get you in trouble. somebody was calling me illiterate because i spelled “u” for short instead of spelling it “you” and some other stuff. i was just venting because i’m sick of people crying about being ripped off when in fact there ripping stuff off them self. maybe i should have just said “people in glass houses should’nt through stones”.people that cry are passing the buck, lay blame else where to cover up the fact that they are stealing. and yes i can say it “I’M A PIRATE” and dame proud of it. LONG LIVE THE PIRATES.
Yep…if your white then I’m a chinaman.
Hello chinaman. really i am white. what makes u think differently?
I was a member on newzbin for a long time, I have got no email saying about a newzbin 2 or whatever.
WOW, guys Rock n Roll….
Another BAN, Another web sites went down but is that war fair?
can we see future where no illegal download will happen, i doubt that…
ROBBERS AND THIEFS – THATS WHAT THE NEWZBIN ADMINS ARE
burn in hell fuckers
Can someone recommend similar porn sites . Thanks.
Sad to see Newzxxx gone.
There are several free and good nzb sites today – if Newzbin comes back as a paysite I will not sign up.
I can’t understand people whining of loosing some “small” money to Newzbin either, most of you guys have probably gotten stuff hundred times the “lost money”. I personally lost 325 days – I’m still happy 🙂
I would for sure not join a site run by hackers and give them my creditcard details 😉 Once a scriptkiddie – always a scriptkiddie, never trust them.
Caesium did shit his leg in court – and undoubtfully he must take a great responsibility for that Newzbin lost the case. I still wonder if he did act like that on purpose – or is he just plain dumb ?
As some of you might remember ? – MPA did NOT shut down Newzbin, Newzbin was bankrupt.
Let me refresh your memories guys @ http://www.newzbin.com/news/?feed=rss&fauth=MjkxMzkzLTQyNWJiNGZmM2E0NDg4YTNkYzYxMGEwZWVhYmYzOWJjZTQwYjNmZGE%3D 😉
Peace fellow Newzbin’ers !
Bah, a day after I checked the site after years. Always liked the site – sad to see it go down.
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all i will say is. i have 5 kids, a crappy job, and a mortgage.
I LOVE films. but there is no way i can afford to pay to go watch a film or buy dvds or blu rays all the time. Newzbin allowed me to watch films that i wouldnt have otherwise got to see. and so noone lost out because i never would afford paying the prices they charge now for films
it wasnt as if it was costing the movie business a fortune because they wouldnt have got a penny out of me!
And if you didn’t waste your time watching those stupid movies – you could learn something useful instead – to increase your earnings and provide more decent life to your children.
There is no honor among theives.
watch free porn: http://www.tubekings.com/
Do you think the saved searches can expose anything about the user? I know it’s not proof of any download activity, but it does show what users were interested in. What are your thoughts?
iz sad no more newzbin – thanks guys missin u already
hi guys
if we paid 1 pound or 5 pounds wich, its possible to pay, to help v3 go te up and better
its our time to get in the way
GG
Thx newzbin!
They killed a sleeping giant. You guys were great!
And: Media should be easy to access. With the documentaries I downloaded, I know they made me smarter.
Actually the correct expression is “awaken” a sleeping giant, not kill.
“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant.”
(As spoken by the character of Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto in the 2001 movie, ‘Pearl Harbour’)
I would hardly be shitting my pants if I had just killed a sleeping giant. On the other hand if I woke one up that would be a different story.
Caesium should be punished to DEATH for fucking up newzbin by this lameass defense
nooooo, you know whats better? which put him in more pain? if his mother dies in an unnecessary accident. he would be devastated!
pmsl
roflpmsl
I think that the “Team R Dogs/Newzbin2” thing is complete load of bs.
Just because a few ex-Newzbin members received an email from them is absolutely no proof whatsoever that the customer database is in someone elses hands.
I believe that the ex-Newzbin people who recieved this email, are signed up to other NZB sites and it is one of those sites that sent the “Team R Dogs/Newzbin2” email out.
If they did have the customer databases, would it not make sense to send an email to everyone in the database? If so, why did I not get an email? I was signed up to Newzbin for years, so I must be in the stolen database, yet I did not get an email.
Maybe the source code is out there, but i doubt that the customer data is.
Well Super, Just a fast note to let you know that I got one of the emails and I did register with another board but I used a different email and only Newzbin and 3 other people use the address so I think you might be wrong on this one. Just a thought
Only Newzbin had my email address which I received the newzbin2 email from. No other site has it, it’s not used for anything but newzbin.
I use different email addresses for every different site I use so I know where the spam comes (amongst other reasons).
So they MUST have the newzbin database, there is no doubt about it. If they didn’t then they wouldn’t have the email address which I received the email on.
I know 7 people who were newzbin members all from varying times.
3 of those people signed up for gingadadddy VIP and guess what .. those 3 and only those 3 got the Newzbin 2 mail.
Coincidence, maybe but doubtful.
can i have my money back
no 🙂
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No, downloading NZBs of movies does not show intent. At least in the US, you can buy a hand gun or a rifle and that does not show you are going to shoot your spouse.
It was the MPAA that shut down Newzbin so would they even have an interest in people that downloaded software or music?
Look if anyone is paranoid then I have suggestions for you:
1. Get a NO LOGS vpn service
2. Create a email account on Gmail, hotmail, or hushmail if you really want to get strict.
3. Use prepaid credit cards for payment.
4. Always stay behind the VPN and use SSL to your usenet provider.\
OR if you live near someone with unsecured WIFI then have fun
PS: Do not use the big U****t providers VPN as it is owned by them and keeps logs
Thanks Bud, useful info indeed.
Clones? Why searching for new ones… Enough alternatives!
Such as: http://www.nzbuddy.nl/
If you think this is an alternative you obviously didn’t understand the capabilities of Newzbin.
i think you missed the point entirely. these poor guys arent even getting a reach around..
Dudes,
I thank you for your efforts over the last few years. My ip is now obviously logged by big brother and I am gona get fined or imprisoned.
You are welcome to the few “pennies” that were left on my account, lets face it, you could have a whole years worth for fuck all!!
Whatever the future holds im sure it will be cool for you all!
Thank you again
[…] hat der DeepSharer Blog ein Gerücht aufgegriffen, dass irgendjemand zuvor die Server von Newzbin gehackt und sowohl den Script Code, sowie die […]
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i never sighned up to a new site nor have i sighed up 2 any other site ever, i 2 got the e-mail
807 caterpiller
i use the u no problems here. it’s my back up. just don’t go retarded cause i have herd stories of there provider sending letters, and another getting serve cut. but they where going hard core.
and i don’t think they will come 4 us
1) they’ll never take me alive
2) just think about how many people are doing this. the don’t have enough jails courts etc to put us in jail. what 100,000 fine. how many people can afford that? to keep u in jail 2 years is 300,000 plus loose ur job and not pay taxes. that’s another 30,000. some how that does’nt add up. internet 2 is what’s up.pay through the arse 4 x amount of gs and it will be censored ,limited info and monitored.
I just want to say THANK YOU to the creators of Newzbin. You provided thousands in the community with countless hours of entertainment and in return, you asked for VERY LITTLE.
I’m sorry that it’s cost you so much in your legal battle but know that your kind service was not lost on the thousands of members of the Newzbin community.
I had over 300 days left on my subscription but am I upset about it? Hell No! Even if offered a refund, I’d never take it. I’d donate it back to the Newzbin team for legal defenses. It would be merely a drop in the bucket compared to what is owed by them…but just think if every Newzbin community member donated one year’s worth of credit to their legal fees….it would make a dent in it…and would show that we are thankful for all that we received in return for our small membership fee.
I wish you all the best and may File Sharing live forever in other places on the internet. Newzbin was the greatest of them all..and will serve as the launching pad for what is to come..which I am sure is going to be huge. I think the MPA just awoke a sleeping giant..and file sharing is about to explode. It will be a huge juggernaut that their legal teams won’t be able to even comprehend.
[…] verdere uitleg wordt verwezen naar een blog waar staat dat Newzbin een voorlopige rekening van juridische kosten heeft gekregen van 230.000 […]
[…] редактор поисковика под ником DeepSharer сообщил в своем блоге, что, по слухам, исходный код действительно был […]
wow thats ore debt than ive got and i have alot.but chin up ya’ll i havent slit my wrists or put a bullet in my head, tho collectors ring my phone daily demanding money i simply dont have. ive always said, things will turn out how they are supposed too, and well so far, so good.
newsbin is awsome as are all the folks behind it…
Cant stop the signal!!!
Just wanted to say thanks to the Newzbin guys for creating it in the first place. Sorry to see you go. 😦
STFU – Loser
So for people using newzbin there was a function for searching usenet raw, which other indexing sites have this function??
try binsearch.info
May the source be with you, all of you.
if i saw caesium on the streets walking like a loser, that he is. i would beat the shit out of him. make him cry and spit blood. i would punch him so often and hard that even his own mother wouldnt recognize him.
piece of shit, caesium. if i dont get my money back, i will fuck you up, i am with tony soprano. watch your self bitch!
ooohhhh nooo, you didnt!!
Caesium you messed with the wrong guys, you dont want to mess with the mafia, believe me.
Listen carefully: you’d better pay them back FAST. Dude, right now, I dont want to be you. You fucked up good!
I won’t be indimidated.
I’m not a part of newzbin, so please address all refund questions to the new owner.
My private bank accounts and real property even as they may worth millions of pounds are not of of your business, as long as dividend checks were cashed the money was mine, newzbin was a legit business and I had all rights to the lion’s share of the profits, nzb was mine idea and noone forced editors to work for me. In addition, I didn’t have to declare my profits and it wasn’t a criminal offense to lie about them.
So all whiners – just shut up and mind your own business.
We will kill the fucking arab terrorist Jabar before he has any chance!!!
You will be soon fucking all those virgins in hell.
thanks, dudes.
i’m sure you will. chicken shit pussy that you are. steal content for pennies then cry about losing a few pounds. you fucking pussy.
+1
[…] by an ex-Newzbin editor, the DeepSharer blog quickly reported a rumor that someone had previously hacked the Newzbin servers and grabbed the source code and several […]
savetheinternet.com
ISPs will shut down usenet if you do nothing. Privateers will collude to limit YOUR freedom.
Newzbin was the site where editors listed real posts with full details.
Other indexing sites don’t come even close.
What MPAA is interested is to download usenet posts, check them for copyright violoations and if they do – to submit shut down notices to usenet providers. But it is so expensive and they need hundreds of people and newzbin did the job for them perfectly and for free.
We should pray there will be no another newzbin, we are lucky MPAA was so stupid this time.
Was a Newzbin user since around The Beginning, they always delivered a great service, even now when it gets shut down the source code is leaked? Nice. Love you long time guys.
Go the clones, hope to see them pop up soon.
I used to be inconsolable even when Newzbin went down for a couple of hours, but now, almost one week on i’ve kind of rediscovered my old self. I been out and talked to folk, smelled flowers and looked at the internet even!!
Thanks Newzbin
How i wish my ISP wasn’t Orange right now! Being French they’re bound to “SURRENDER” my info and i’ll end up being bum raped in Wandsworth.
Bad times!!!!
Peace, love and art for free.
I’m in France too…
Newzbin was my source of UK TV as BBC iplayer won’t work here!
Still I get the same result with 2 other sites.
Orange can’t be your usenet provider.
Get an usenet account with SSL.
As I said in my other comments
“So long and thanks for all the fish!”
Bummer. Good times Newzbin. Thank You, and thank you all who put it up for me to download!!
I have been a member since 2004 and losing Newzbin is like losing a member of the family. I must admit that I had been using newzbin mainly for the xxx content and in the past year i had gotten cheap and only renew my premium top-up maybe twice since newzxxx site was free. If i had known that this could have happened I would have been willing to pay twice or not 3 or 4 times that I was paying newzbin. I hope another site comes along that will be just as good because right now there isn’t any. If nothing comes to take newzbins place then news groups are dead. I last use newzbin on 5/16/2010 and the sad part is i didn’t even get a chance to say goodbye because I didnt’ know that was going to be the very last time i had the honor to use newzbin’s services.
I think Newzbin went down because it got too big over the past couple of years, and too many childish kids like 50% of the people who are posting here got accounts. Over the past couple of years there was way too many people posting comments on posts that had nothing to do with it except turning into a big flame, childish nonsense like that is no doubt the core reason that Newzbin was singled out in the first place. It any future NZB site gets even close to as good as Newzbin, I will give you guys some advice. Do not let just anybody get an account, monitor behavior thoroughly, try to weed out children with foul language and are only there to cause problems for other people and I can assure you that your website will last a whole lot longer
I don’t agree with what you said. It doesn’t make sense, what does foul language have to do with newzbin closing? Listen if you have a problem with all the cussing thats fine and just say so instead of associating false blame. I hate people who aren’t str8 forward about what their problem is.
I think many of these people get personally involved into flaming too much, and that is usually kids under the age of 18 and very childish adults, do you really think there was in a few of these people who were involved in stupid little childish flaming on the comments section who didn’t go overboard and try to ruin the entire website because of this, by telling authorities or whatnot,it was a great website, I have other websites, it is sad how this ended, but I saw this coming for a couple years, as soon as you start allowing childless people or anybody to get an account that right there is the beginning of the end. Unfortunately this only got worse and worse over the past couple of years, if something had been done and made this behavior stop a couple of years ago, I have no doubt that Newzbin would have still been running. People just need to to get what they wanted to get and shut the fuck up.
@wobblymatt Have you tried http://www.opendns.com to trick the BBC into thinking you are in the UK.
@G whiz
I’ve tried but iplayer still says i’m not in the UK.
I don’t see how it will trick iplayer as it doesn’t change my IP
Any ideas… Thanks in advance
I wont spell it out, read this http://bbs.scoobynet.com/computer-related-34/658352-how-to-get-bbc-iplayer-to-work-outside-uk.html
‘T IS UIT!!
I have used newxbin over the years for many many things but it is a sad sad day that this has happened. I had over 400+ days of credit but hey I knew the risks. How much newzbin has helped over the years and given us a service second to none.
RIP newzbin
Hope there are clones soon if the source code was leaked or given or whatever.
will you all ” Shut the fuck up ” stop moaning….stop bitching man….just found out another site i was using has put a stop to me downloading unless i pay up front now…they have seen an increase in their subscription to their site increase from 100 a day to 3000 a day.
So now i have been put on hold…yes i know i should have went V.I.P. for that $10 but if i dont have….i dont have…
I feel now all sites will see the fact they can cash in on the time they have left…so you all better get the card out.
Me ….well i will wait tell i get that £10 and i will pay as i sure wont be going to Blockbusters unless its to shoplift..Lol
Anyway …thought i would let you all know….the door is closing
I still have some .nzb, can I still use them???
I’ll just assume the people wanting their ‘change’ back from newzbin, don’t tip their waitresses either 😉
can I still download stuff if I use the “.nzb” that I have in my computer but didn’t use yet?
WTF…damn stupid question.
Go back to your Xbox or better still go back to you mums tits…and grow up.
Loser!
If its on their servers i would assume not – as their service has been terminated, although i could be wrong.
You are wrong.
just try one of the “.nzb” that I was gona download and the all file download perfectly…
I have few other that i was waiting to download, can it be dodgy to download them??
From court case defense strategy and from posts above one can conclude that newzbin was a service for morons run by a moron.
Just like you..loser!
I’m really sorry about you losing your primary source of jerking off, the best you could get.
i find it so funny that people want their money back. yes newzbin was a great service and i think its safe to assume all the members got way way more than they put in/paid for. not to mention it seems that it was a LLC/LLP and therefore, newzbin went bankrupt due to the fines from the lawsuit, but the owners did not lose any personal assets outside of newzbin itself. so what makes people think that the owners would just liquidate and use their own personal assets to reimburse users a couple $$$?
Why not.
The promise about newzbin staying afloat was from those people, the money are from subscriptions even after being wired to their personal accounts as dividends.
I want the unused portion of my money back.
Why not?
Because it’s stupid idea for a variety of reasons anyone over the age of 13 can see.
Get over your lost $10 and maybe stop watching so much pirated TV/Porn, I think it’s fried your brain.
David you are a grade A numpty, get a life (with your mothers permission of course.)
well if i were running a business/company i too would tell all my clients/customers that we are still afloat and not going under. otherwise everybody would have gone crazy wanting money back, or something along the lines of shit hitting the fan.
you see this all the time in companies that are going under, but you won’t see the Board of Directors tell the shareholders what’s up. this was just simple business. but people i think need to understand that the owners are not liable for anything past Newzbin going bankrupt.
and with the amount of risk the founders of newzbin assumed by not keeping any records of us beyond our email was well worth losing a couple of bucks over to enjoy pirating literally anything.
the fact is that since it was a limited liability something, newzbin is not obligated to pay anything back… and given the times we live in, who the fuck wouuld use their own personal money to pay back the clients and users of Newzbin who still had some credit left over
In the past decent people comitted suicide after being exposed as cheaters, but not presently 🙂
In the past decent people comitted suicide after being exposed as cheaters, so presently no decent people left 🙂
WTF Do you know about anything…
Maltman…more like Prickman
What a bunch of sad fooks you all are.
Pirating thieving barstads and you get to call Newzbin thieves….thats so funny I’m going to have a wank!
Oh and for everyone who gave a legit email address to Newzbin..better start think about being somones bitch in the slammer.
What are you all…a bunch of bloody illegals or what!
Im sure you wank a lot “SpunkBubble” while dreaming about being someones bitch in the slammer. Or maybe you fantasize about bloody illegals? Anyhow….Don’t worry I am sure you will find another site to wank off to.
I have…its this one!
OK we did it…we grassed on you whitey shitheads. You think you own the country – the world.
Jihad to you…me and my Arab Bretheren are gonna takedown your crappy Newzbin clones gain again and again..
We love the MPAA they are not run by Jewish Nazis.
As for Casium he’s one of us…his real name is Raghead!
and your real name is Shithead
i find it funny that extreme muslims thought process and actions are as childish as the American’s some of them love to hate.
its too bad muslims don’t really make anything i like, or i would pirate that too.
@Maltman.
May the fleas of a 1000 camels infest your a$$hole.
people need to stop crying, there is plenty of other sites, just learn to use them.
i second that
Yeaah Newsbin works again 😀
chuckle
So.. Where is it then? xD
@wobblymatt
Irish ISP’s are already ratting out their customers, they have no choice, word is that french ISP’s will be next in europe.
I use Orange uk (french based) with Giganews SSL. However in Giga’s smallprint they state if legally required to relinquish info they must cooperate.
The ISP must provide physical name and address for the corresponding IP address provided to them.
I’m avoiding the NZBs
The BBCi player issue must be possible somehow, good luck with that.
“Art belongs to the many. Copywriting can’t be relevent in this time of vacuous phone in talent shows and watch me cook or renovate my fourth property BS!!! I mean really.”
Thanks for all the hard work and dedication to all the guys at Newzbin, and thanks to the Claimants for possibly stimulating the biggest revolution in multimedia history since talking movies.
The Movie industry has just hung itself completely by accidentally promoting an unlimited number of clone sites that will no doubt be up and running by the end of the week.
Here’s the news, I can still do everything I could before, but here’s a sarcastic slow hand clap for trying to stop me.
MGM, Universal, Sony etc…
Here’s a clue as to how you SHOULD have behaved 15 or more years ago – Now you have a virtually free, worldwide distribution mechanism in the internet, you can go for cheaper prices, higher volume, more profit (AND lower legal costs!!). Just imagine.
You have had ample chance to rectify this situation, and now its about to blow up in your face. Sticking your head in the sand and hoping the internet would go away always was a futile attitude, and now you’re about to learn why.
I for one shall enjoy the forthcoming show very much indeed. (The one where large multimedia corporations disappear up their own rectums and real Art is allowed to flourish in its place. Hoorah. Its a heart warming tale)
If my boss was looking here and saw this I’d be fired. But I just had to say your right. Up and down the halls of power everyone is asking how they can stop this roller coaster and everyone keeps stubbing their toes on the same old reaction…suing and legal action. They STILL don’t understand how the Internet works in a social way. Its too late to change it.
My advice is don’t be apathetic when they start rolling out their new campaign of fear against ISP’s and everyone else. except Google and the other Big Boys. Filehosting, Filesharing is big money and they want it.
What you are seeing is ineffective top level decision making at the core of our society which is being fueled by greed.
Sony is going down the tubes Nintendo dumped on them, music artists dumped on them, film production has dumped on them and the only way that can fatten their purse is going after the internet.
Trust me…I’m one the biggest nobs at Sony. I got a big fat bonus this year for taking it up the a$$ without any Lube!
I find is so hilarious that the thieves are upset that someone is “stealing” their money. ROTFLMFAO
Who you calling a thief.
Typical just because I’m black your calling me thief. Try getting that through the courts. I’m downlaoding this shit as its my right. 300 years agos soem dude who was black was sold to soem dude who was white by a black man…and its all your fault. Newzbin is and was a racist company and I’m glad they gone man…just need to get mysel hooked up with soem black a$$ pawn now!
Pas de problem!
(After I learn to speak French.)
Im really sad about newzbin ending.
It was a way for me to try software out before purchasing and wasting my money.I have been on the site for some time and i really do hope that all the money i have shelled to a great site does not end up in the fat pigs pocket.
Thanks for the memories newzbin……and the software and the games and the apps
It was great knowing you
STFU Loozer
Yes i totaly agree to wat you to said
Twathead, FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!
Why oh why do you all have to bitch and whine at each other ???
This forum has turned into a flame-war, and I for one want no more to do with, why the bloody hell don’t the “one click unsubscribe” link in the e mails work ?
I really like to eat cheese.
sometimes when I fart uneaten or processed pieces of cheese come out of my butt.
Sometime I save that cheese and feed it to company I don’t like.
rot in jail Caesium
woooohooooooo
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
all you newzbin fags should be in jail
Fuck you
lulz
I can’t believe the crybabies in here whining about a couple bucks. I always topped of during the half price December special for a whole year. Newzbin gave me wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy more than I ever put in. Now it is back to downloading headers and taking risks on garbage/spyware until another decent site comes along. Maybe Newzbin 2 can be just as good!
All this bullshit written here made my day! 🙂
So long Newzbin, u did good!
if your not prepared to do the time dont do the crime newzbin good riddens plenty more nzb sites that top newzbin
Name a *single* one that’s as good as Newzbin was.
Racist Loozer
money grabbing cunts
Clearly u are….
so STFU and go piss your pants somewhere else your making a smell a round here.
I FIND Gingadaddy.net is a good shite
GOD DAM JEWS!!!!
r.i.p newzbin
BLAZER-SAM .. you are totaly riiiiiiiiight Maaaaaaaaaaaan !! ..
Ok people Newzbin is dead. Now lets just move on.
Just taken a look at http://www.gingadaddy.net and it looks pretty good. Stuff is organised into categories and it appears to allow the posting of comments.
This is what they have to say:
2010-05-20 – WELCOME to all X-NewsBin members!
I just want to take this time to welcome all NewsBin members who have decided to join up. Your all very welcome and I am sure you guys are lost, left wondering if you can ever find a place to settle with the same friendly atmosphere that NewsBin gave it’s members. I know I will try my best to do so for you. I hope to spend many years getting to know you all. Here’s to the future!!
GingaDADDY (SYSOP).
# 2010-04-19 –
VIP Options
Donate £5
….and recieve:
#
VIP Subscription Unlimited Nzb Downloads for 1 Year!
#
# Currently we have over 44,000 XxX (Adult) Movies/Videos.
# Boomarked NZBs.
# Your Ip is hidden on our site so you cannot be tracked through our data base (Your Immunity on our site is our guarantee).
# Access to our VIP Forum.
No MORE! Ads And More!!
Donate £10
….and recieve:
#
VIP Subscription Unlimited Nzb Downloads for LIFE!
#
# Currently we have 44,000 XxX (Adult) Movies/Videos.
# Boomarked NZBs.
# Your Ip is hidden on our site so you cannot be tracked through our data base (Your Immunity on our site is our guarantee).
# Access to our VIP Forum.
No MORE! Ads And More!!
They take Paypal which is a better way of paying , no credit card details. I’m still evaluating this one but I think they may be the one that will get my money.
So funny that they think a donation is somehow all clean and sparkly.
At least Newzbin was honest..they never hid behind some 16 year old kid in their bedroom doing the world a favor just because they felt suicidal becoz mommy was smacking crack with king dong up the street.
# Your Ip is hidden on our site so you cannot be tracked through our data base (Your Immunity on our site is our guarantee).
————————————————–
I couldn’t stop laughing for about like 20 minutes..
Any Fukwit making a promise like that for 10 quid is either raving bonker due to a syphillis infection gone untreated or is out to make a quick buck…maybe both.
Gurantee…thats so funny….jeez I’m going to start laughing and wet myself again. Thanks for that post I’m copying it to my desktop. I’ll look at this every time I’m having a bad day!
RIP nzb
Cheese is Good
Secret Mouse Service was ‘ere.
You want cheese I got loads you can have…
Wot a tosser!
Look Newzbin Was the Best and I hope the best for them I had 267 days left who cares there in deep shit and every one only cares about them damm selfs damm people get over it and wish the Best for them..
So I had 599 days left.
So STFU and go cry in your moms bosom.
Open source it! It was a good run and I hope it helped you live comfortably. Let the genie out of the bottle!
Wot you smokin Boy!
we should all donate some thing to help get them out of the shit! but i think it would be a select few who would help! judging by some of the “refund” comments….wot a bunch of WANKERS!!!!!!
Seems we should start with your one brain cell then..
STFU U Loozer
All I see here are Bashers And STFU Uper’s and a few people who do care that NEWZBIN is gone and I still wish the Best for them They should ask the People that do care help them Out I would..
just think caesium, with that $5 refund you could have purchased another piggy bank, to put your other refunds in – ya daft twat!!!
WHOOP!!!!
even if it would be just five dollars – $5 * 72164 = $360820 or 249K pounds
I was certain to provide refunds for unused portion, but my unfortunately my Lamborgini had developed flat tire and I’m planning to buy a Ferrari instead.
Forgot to mention, I will sell the Lamborgini and use the proceeds to appeal the court decision to Her Majesty the Queen.
But to achieve that I need your paypal donations to buy the new set of tires.
Long live Newzbin!!!
Thanks in advance.
Just a heads up. I am hearing that NZBsRus and Merlins are the next targets. Think again before paying up.
Dam I miss this site, does anyone have a link to another site of this quality please??
Looks like gingadaddy.net/ is also closed down ! an i just signed up for that !! dam..
gingadaddy me to says there is no such site
I wonder if the new antipiracy lawsuit has anything to do with the closing of the site.
http://thresq.hollywoodreporter.com/2010/05/hurt-locker-pirates-lawsuit.html
I guess being Mr. Caesium now, is like wining the lottery. he must be extremly happy and having the best time of his life. I have to admit I would to be in his position now, with all the money and stuff.
They always say there is no “quick easy money”, Caesium proofed them wrong. He made huge amount of money very quickly and eaisly.
At least someone is happy and having a good life, wish you the best Caesium and please donate some of your money to haiti.
Thanks for understainding.
As to Haiti – I shed some tears instead, it is not all about money.
hehe thats the Caesium we know and love – greedy as hell. Dont forget Caesium you cant take all that money in your grave
there isnt enough space.
Interesting new Whois record for Newzbin.com…
Domain Name: NEWSZBIN.COM
Registrant:
Ho Nim
NanNatou road 1187/28
Fangzi 601
Shanghai
Pudong
200124
CN
Super sino-KIRF newzbin rides again 🙂
Look at your spelling on the domain name……. doh!
NZBMarix will be next as it is the biggest of the rest, then NZBRUS.
merlins-portal is but small fry compared but well run and maintained and really is the prize with there one of a kind NZB index.
As for me well i do as i always done and use newsleech.
Is ther anyway for the law to get ahold of the customers information throughout the closure of newzbin?
they say no but I think not they can supeona it..
I just read that newzbin didnt hold any form of records? If any one has any imput it would be much appreciated!
i don’t give a shit what the guys behind newzbin made. they SHOULD have been making as much as the Google founders, as i found Newzbin to be about as user friendly, USEFUL and just downright fun to interact with as i do most of Google’s products. And yes – it was a product. A fantastic one. I don’t pretend to give two shits about some ‘intellectual property license’ of some brainless jackal lawyer driven ‘businesses’ called ‘the movie industry’. who the hell is ‘hollywood’ anyway? how many of these ‘movie companies’ actually provide value to the creative work – OTHER than to simply squeeze as much money out of ‘license’ they can. i wish newzbin would have charged five times more than they were. I would have paid ten times more. it was a fantastic distribution model. one of the best. yes, during the lawsuit, there seemed to be more and more infected files popping up. but usually, someone had made a comment about it so i never had a problem.
You guys are complete fucking retards if you think that this wanker Caesium is the real deal. Obviously from the lawsuit he is not allowed to at all talk about anything related to newzbin or the lawsuit.
You guys are so fucking gullible
hey fred, it’s Cpt.Picard here. how come u can’t answer my question? is it because ur a jack ass. what makes u think i’m a negro like u stated. it’s oviouse that ur imature, childish COCK SMOKER who knows jack shit about shit. u should be banned from life. YOU PEICE OF SHIT. you should shut the fuck up, because u know squat.right now ur face is attached to me arse,sucking the bark right out of me arse. IT”S OVIOUSE UR A FAG AND A DOUCHEBAG.
SHUT UP NIGGER!
FUCK YOU RACEZIST PIG. I HOPE SOMEBODY KICKS THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF YOU> PS I REALY AM WHITE U STUPID FUCK. DO U REALIZE EVERY TIME YOU OPEN UR TRAP, U MAKE URSELF LOOK STUPID. IF I PUT U BESIDE A FENCE POST U MAKE THE FENCE POST LOOK LIKE STEVEN HAWKINS. THAT HOW STUPID YOU ARE. UR PIC IS NOW BESIDE FUCKTARD IN THE DICTIONARY. ONE OF THESE DAYS I HOPE UR IN JAIL AND BABA CORN HOLES U SO BAD U GET 10 STITCHS IN THE ASS. U KISS UR MOTHER WITH THAT FOUL MOUTH. UR MOUTH IS SO DERTY I WOULD ‘NT SHOVE MY WORST ENIMIES COCK IN UR MOUTH. IF SHOES WHERE CLUES UD BE BARE FOOT. THAT’S HOW STUPID U R. AND YES IT OVIOUS THAT IF I SHOVED A BEER BOTTLE SO FAR UP UR ASS IT WOULD GET LODGE IN UR SKULL CAUSE THERE’S ROOM UP THERE CAUSE U GOT NO BRAINS. WHEN GOD WAS HANDING OUT BRAINS U THOUGHT HE SAID TRAINS SO GOT A COUPLE. WHY WASTE MY TIME ON A LOOSER LIKE YOU. AND YES U REALY ARE THE WORLDS BIGGEST DOUCHBAG YOU FLAMING FAG. PROBALY GOT UR MOM’S GRANNY PANTIES ON RIGHT NOW. P.S IS THAT THE BEST U CAN DO. DON’T LIKE BEING PUT IN UR PLACE.
No one does believe he is fred u fucktard.
hey im Caesium, no actually its still wad, I just wanna say fred love sticking his fingers up his arse then licking them. yum yum poo flavour.
Sll i can say is that we all had the freeness while it lasted! And i do call it freeness even if e did pay a few sheckles for the service! Newzbin have savd me 1000’s over the years! Thanks guys and all the best! Where should i go now?
this is kinda like those adult chat sites where everyone pretends to be someone else.
Caesium – Should be a picture of you in Webster’s under BadAss. Come back stronger harder faster better can not wait ! ! ! !
Fred Fred Fred…….theres never telling what you will say or do next?….but its bound to be something astonishing!!!
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No, I’m Ceasium..err..Caesium…err..Seizeum, wait….
I’m Caesium.
Really.
That’s me.
Uh huh.
Guys stop fooling around and pretending to be me (<- actual Caesium)
I’ve asked the following as a question to Mr. White in his interview…
“When the court ruling was announced the first thing I did was I changed my email address on my profile. The Team R Dogz mass mail sent on the 21st May at 7pm GMT has been sent to my new email address.
If you had taken a snapshot of the database a while ago (before the legal action) – how come you have my new email address and not the old one?”
lol, im assuming its an old backup of the database.
hey bunun did u stop to think before u opened ur mouth? if it’s an old back up, then it should have old e-mail address, not new address. you bunun. most people on this site yap before they think and rubbish comes rolling out of what they call a mouth. remember the old saying? kids should be seen, and not herd.
WHAT”S THE MATTER FRED? CAT GOT UR TONQUE?
HEY FRED, to busy with ur fist up ur arse, and then licking it like a shitsacle to responed? look in the dictionary under the word douchebag, there,s a picture of u.
I dont want too spoil everyone fun on sulking,….BUT NEWSBINS COMING BACK EVERYONE……
REMEMBER i was the first one to tell you all.
Freds too busy playing with his spam javalin to respond….
i guess that’s the same thing as playing with the old rusty trombone
half a day went by, still no fred. OVIOUSLY he’s still playing with his spam javalin, which means he is realy realy good at it or he is realy realy bad at it. i’ll go with the latter. as it is realy realy small and he can’t find it.LOOSER
hey caesium for some dipshit so brite you can’t even spell tyre hell yeh you sure are the real deal bet you can spell arse you will have been called it enough.
Sorry if this has already been shared and I missed it amongst all the posts:
Uh, let me try that again: http://www.newzleech.com/
http://www.newzbin.com is running again under the new owners.
Login to find out how to proceed.
I cannot disclose more because of legal situation.
Am I missing something here? I just get the “Newzbin Closed” message…
I would “best guess” it will be intermitent service for a while.
yeah i get the old ‘we’re fucked’ website aswell….DNS issue maybe as the domain transfers owners?
woot woot woot 🙂
ps dewey, err… you have a go at someone’s spelling, yet manage to mispell ‘bright’.
That’s as bad as Freds poo eating antics.
CAESIUM you should go read 881 see what fred i mean poo eater has to say.
how do i know the mpaa isnt running the website now, and just waiting for people to download shit so they can fuck them in the ass ???
2 reasons:
The MPA arent going to file a lawsuit against Newzbin, then break the law themselves by hacking the site in order to steal the source code
Also, downloading a nzb file isnt illegal, and there is no way they can prove what you did with it after that
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Site was running again, briefly, but is now offline again.
Site up right now 7:28pm EST.
Yes, back up again now.
hey Fred every time u open ur mouth u stick ur foot in it. by the looks of thing ur up to ur thigh. hey good news u can suck ur own cock now. keep up ur antics and i will post every day just how much of a douchbag u realy r.
Mr. Caesium may now well land in jail.
True entrepreneurs should know when to quit.
wheres newzxxx.com
Do you have to open a new account or can you use the old one?
As someone else said ‘Is the new Newzbin a MPAA honeypot’?????
Got to be a possibility
Hi there, Been reading about Newzbin2 opening… but why do so many people pay to download NZBs???
I used to be a member of Newzbin till they closed then I found a Free NZB Site http://www.uk-nzbs.com… The owner ask for Donations to keep the site up and running but this is optional and the people who do donate get entered into Competitions… Last 1 was a 1.5TB HDD and I read in Shout Box next 1 is going to be a Blu-Ray Burner…
I’m only a member at the moment but I think I’m gonna help him out and Donate at weekend might be lucky enough to win a Competition 😀
He is also looking for Posters for his site… He is a new site with only 1600+ members so he needs all the help he can get…
so what I’m trying to say is Newsbin2 (Cost) UK-NZBs (FREE)
I’m wondering if the current newzbin is honeypot set by MPAA to trap editors.
http://www.usenetshack.com/official-comment-newzbin-admin-caesium-newzbins-demise-and-source-code-theft/
If it is a trap – Caesium will deny it has anything to do with it.
“I plain out just don’t know.”
“Control of Newzbin Ltd was transferred away from me (because I sold it. not by force) in January 2010 and with it, all my rights to the source code and servers etc etc. Whoever obtained it didn’t get it through me – how did they get it? I don’t know.”
Best of luck to them.
I’ve seen so many sites go over the years
You will be remembered
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Cpt.Picard, your a fucking idiot. I read this whole thing and you my ugly friend, were the jackass of the site. Just like Rudolph bright red fucking nose
oh, and one more thing. nigger. 😉
I am not happy with that either. It’s not really doing good to anybody. I just hope that everything will eventually be fine most especially between the two chicas. Tanks for sharing!
“the two chicas” & major bump? Would be interesting if spammers (cfr his username link) replied with something that actually applies for a change.
I would like to find someone who will teach me how to download these files…I dont understand what i need to get them to work.
I downloaded an auto program i use and it dont work.
Thanks
“if i show you a place that has a shiny diamond that belongs to someone else, then tell you that your hands are able to grasp that diamond and take it for yourself, and you go take it, how the f does that make me the criminal.”
Simple. The people who have the diamonds in the first place also have the money to, “legally” buy the law makers, judges, prosecutors and police to you criminal and have you thrown in jail – it is called fighting crime with “legal crime”.
Also known as the “rule of law”. He who can buy the lawmakers, makes the rules.
Rule of Law purchasing of Law Makers worked great in the U.S. until the bankers got so greedy they brought the who financial system to it’s knees.
Good News for the Bankers though, in the U.S. both major political parties came to their rescue with Trillions of dollars in no interest loans which the U.S. taxpayers are responsible for paying back.
So it is a happy story for those who buy law makers in the end.
Codigo anti-spam incorrecto. Por favor introduce el codigo que puedes leer en la imagen.
Give this place a whirl.
http://nzb-forum.com/forum.php
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