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NZBMatrix Closes Their Website

Posted by samzenpus on from the gone-for-good dept.

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."

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  1. Re:I am not sad by DerekLyons · · Score: 1, Troll

    Binaries killed Usenet. Because of these binaries, many providers stopped, because it was taking up too much space and bandwidth.
    Because they stopped, many people stopped using the real discussion groups.

    So instead of having one place where I can get to ask questions in one place in an easy way, I have to go to multiple websites that all have a lousy way of interfacing with other people.

    This.

    The loss of NZBmatrix and it's bastard ilk are no loss for actual Usenet users - only for those (mis)using it to share and download files. Good riddance to bad rubbish I say, don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.