On Mon, 16 Sep 2019 15:47:00 -0500, Randy Wang
<abuse@localhost.localdomain> wrote:
>In article <jqqvnetgch3ou1vhq1li43lh4qhstd1504@4ax.com>,
>SL <SerpentLord@Evil.Incarn8> wrote:
>
>> It all came out in the wash. ;-)
>
>That's good.
>
>> binsearch seems to only search back a few(? I don't
>> necessarily mean two ?) years.
>
>I don't think it's a limit on the lookback time (I've found many things
>there that are more than two or three years old), but the fact that
>their database consists mostly of holes rather than entries. The same
>is sometimes true of nzbindex.nl, but that one doesn't seem quite as
>bad in *that* regard. However, nzbindex has only a very small list of
>groups that it indexes, compared to binsearch, so it's often worthless
>for that reason.
>
>I suspect that one part of the problem is DMCA takedown requests.
>Unfortunately, and IMO this is 100% stupid, a lot of laws, and/or a lot
>of interpretations of laws by various courts in various places, say
>that a link or pointer to a file is equivalent to the file and must be
>taken down along with the file itself. So even an outfit like a Usenet
>indexer that keeps *no* files anywhere is made a victim of the stupid
>DMCA laws. There have been legal debates about whether the same thing
>applies to web-searching engines. Some say yes, some say no. To me,
>it's very clear-cut: any link anywhere is *not* ever a file. It's
>merely a pointer, and it can't possibly infringe any copyright. But
>try telling that to an ignorant fuckin' judge who has no idea WTF a
>file is, WTF a link is, WTF a server is, or WTF Usenet is.
>
>An analogy I like to use is that the stupid situation we've got now
>with the laws and courts is as though I were to go around telling
>people "Hey, folks, over at the northeast corner of First and Main
>there's a guy giving away ripped copies of CDs and DVDs out of the
>trunk of his car, so go over there and grab a few" ... and then I get
>busted and put on trial for distributing pirated discs, just because
>I've provided a pointer to them! Does that make any sense?
>
>But I also don't think that takedowns are the only problem with
>binsearch and nzbindex. I think they both just blow goats.
I've never heard or seen of this NZBKing before. Next time I
need a search I'll give it a try.
My question from the other day...how do "I" make an nzb file?
I see Gollum sending them with his posts. He's not getting them
after-the-fact from one of the nzb search engines; he's making them,
but how?
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