NZBMatrix Closes Their Website

An anonymous reader writes "Hot on the heels of the closure of Newzbin2, this morning the usenet NZB indexing website NZBMatrix closed shop in the face of another DMCA notice. NZBMatrix allowed users to sift through messy usenet groups and quickly find data for download. NZBMatrix's API allowed automated polling from various clients, making it one of the more popular NZB sites. This is one of the last public NZB indexing sites, leaving mostly invite-only underground sites. A sad day for usenet users everywhere."

Comments

NZBMatrix had a great community, like Demonoid

[BenJeremy]

You could always rely on a decent number of comments for popular releases to filter a good download form a bad one.

Sad to see this one go, as I had relied on it more and more well before Newzbin closed its doors.

Another 10 bucks wasted

[Spritzer]

How nice of them to accept premium payments up to the day they closed.

Re:Need to decentralize

[Mascot]

They're going after the Usenet providers as well, via automated DMCA takedown requests. The providers have no choice but to comply (and to keep up, also automating the process), which means content is effectively gone within hours of being uploaded.

The irony when it comes to TV shows/movies is the same as it used to be with the music industry: the stuff being downloaded is largely not available to buy online legally. I wish they would put their efforts into making this content available for purchase instead of wasting their time trying to stem the flood of copyright infringement.

Re:I am not sad

[Anonymous Coward]

How is this moderated up so high. No provider was forced to shudder their doors because of the huge size of the binaries groups. Just dont carry the group. Usenet discussion died because of spam and web forums.

Re:Why not use another method?

[SealBeater]

I wish I could convey in words how obvious it is that you have no idea what you are talking about.