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NZBMatrix Shuts Down Citing Piracy Troubles

NZBMatrix, one of the leading Usenet indexing services, has shut down voluntarily. The website’s owners explain that it has become increasingly difficult to operate in a business where copyright holders vigorously protect their content. A large takedown notice from Hollywood’s movie studios as well as issues with payment providers are cited as reasons for NZBMatrix to throw the towel.

2012 has been a troublesome year for Usenet services.

Copyright holders have rapidly increased the number of DMCA takedown notices they send to indexing and hosting services. In addition, payment providers such as Paypal are banning Usenet related sites over piracy concerns.

As a result of these and other changes Newzbin2 killed their service at the end of last month, and today the very popular Usenet indexer NZBMatrix follows in its footsteps.

NZBMatrix shut down a few hours ago and left a statement on the site explaining why. The Usenet indexer says it had to make this decision due to a “very large takedown request” from major Hollywood movie studios”

While a takedown notice doesn’t have to mean the end of a website, NZBMatrix appears to have trouble automating the process. And with the increasing rate at which the notices come in, NZBMatrix can’t keep up anymore.

“As everyone is aware we are DMCA/Takedown notice compliant, and always have been. Once this notice is completed we are left with an impossible task of policing our indexing bots. Even then it won’t stop there, there will be follow-up notices etc,” they explain.

NZBMatrix adds that the more copyrighted material is removed, the less content is available to index properly, rendering a service such as NZBMatrix useless.

“The Usenet Indexing scene is going through some changes, with content being removed from pretty much every provider its making the existence of an indexer irrelevant if the content does not even exists anymore.”

The increase in takedown notices, coupled with issues at payment providers eventually resulted in NZBMatrix shutting down voluntarily. Sister site NZBxxx was shutdown as well and displays the same statement.

With millions of users a month NZBMatrix was one of the major Usenet indexing services. The site was particularly popular in Denmark, Australia and the UK.

While there are still many alternatives to NZBMatrix around, it’s become increasingly clear that copyright holders are determined to wipe Usenet clean bit by bit.

Below is the farewell notice that was posted on NZBMatrix this morning.

—

The End…

It is with our regret to announce that NZBMATRIX has closed.

We have had to make this decision due to a very large takedown request from a company called Wiggin LLC. These represent the following: Federation Against Copyright Theft Limited (“FACT”), Paramount Home Entertainment International Limited; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Limited; The Walt Disney Company Limited; Twentieth Century Fox Film Company Limited; Universal Pictures (UK) Limited; Warner Bros. Entertainment UK Limited.

As everyone is aware we are DMCA/Takedown notice compliant, and always have been.Once this notice is completed we are left with an impossible task of policing our indexing bots. Even then it won’t stop there, there will be follow-up notices etc.

Coupled with this is problems with payment providers, we have been through pretty much everyone out there, in the end they all pull out. There are massive server/bandwidth costs to pay, with the payments in-stability this is a very hard task.

NZBMATRIX has never been the subject of any legal issues or threats.

Also the Usenet Indexing scene is going through some changes, with content being removed from pretty much every provider its making the existence of an indexer irrelevant if the content does not even exists anymore.

So it’s time for us to bow out…

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  • Guest

    I was using it one minute, refreshed and found it dead. to be expected considering the comment red box that went up a month ago. nzb.su now or binsearch.info

    • Schvedka

      I don’t think anyone can get to nzb.su – it’s registered in the Soviet Union, lol!

      ??? ?????? ???????!

      • Infamousgjr

        Anyone got an invite to nzb.su?

        • Schvedka

          It must be intermittent. I registered this morning.
          Good things will come to he who waits…
          Just keep checking back.

        • Guest

          Rest in peace.

          Fuck you MAFIAA!

        • NzBDB

          Message to NZBMatrix staff

          Dump all the nzb’s into a torrent and throw up on TPB.
          If you are not allowed, leak the DB if you have to. (or just NZB files)
          After the vip memberships, it’s the least you can do for the users.
          You are probably out of a job anyway. NZBMatrix is gone.

        • Exjay85

          Yeah i’m a former torrentleecher then newly reformed nzbmatrixer. Need a new home :(

      • Guest

        You don’t call it the soviet Union anymore.

        For the rest it shall come as a warning to the corporate world who want to continue doing business on the net.

        Soon the corporate world will have to vacate the net unless they crack down on the entertainment industry.

        Even the ISP business is at stake. ISP services can be bypassed in order to avoid filtering and maintain anonymity. Plus you save the monthly fee! Once people get use to that they will be no turning back.

        The only thing remaining will be the non-profit operations such as The Pirate Bay since they will never be able to nail anyone because nobody involved is on any payroll.

        • Schvedka

          Oh please Amerika…. ROFL “Thank you” for letting me know that “it’s not called the Soviet Union anymore”. I always wondered what was happening in my neighbouring country, who would have known…. ? ;-)

          I pointed out about the .su domain, clever clogs!!!

          Get it? It is rather smart to be using a domain that has very unclear mangement because it cannot be ceased easily by the USA or one of its puppets.

          .com and .org domains are at the mercy of the “democracy” in the USA.

    • http://twitter.com/GlovinDorlan GlovinDorlan

      just as Lisa said I’m amazed that a single mom able to make $4471 in 4 weeks on the network.

    • http://twitter.com/GlovinDorlan GlovinDorlan

      …..goo.gl/5QjtU (Click on Home)

    • Wal-Mart

      They are targeting them and getting rid of Usenet sites because they are always spreading material they shouldn’t be. I think this is good work because it will give way for legitimate business to sell their wares on the internet.

      Piracy is killing innovation. It needs to stop.

      • UraPhake

        “I think…”
        =-=-=

        No, you really don’t. Stop spreading lies.

        • Yomany

          Wal-Mart thinks his comments are great and insightful,
          but he fails in promoting his nonsense, fails as a troll and fails as a blind follower.

          I assure you, the next time he will do the same.

          “Piracy is… [insert any accusation]“.

        • Wall

          @Wal-Mart: “They are targeting them and getting rid of Usenet sites because they are always spreading material they shouldn’t be. I think this is good work because it will give way for legitimate business to sell their wares on the internet.

          Piracy is killing innovation. It needs to stop”.

          You obviously don’t know why you’re so happy,
          you only want to act like a seal [Applause - Applause].
          Sorry, there’s no fish for you, bad trick.

          To make it clear, NZBMatrix was just an index site,
          they didn’t upload anything, it was a search engine.

          “Piracy is killing innovation?” I know you believe in your words,
          that not means you’re right, file-sharing is in a race against itself,
          when a method is not popular, it’s outdated or was blocked, etc.
          Another one appears, there’s always innovation in this world.

          While those companies, that want you to buy their products,
          always tease you with the same tricks over and over again.

          In the end, innovation means you bring new ideas and products to alter what was established. The “legitimate businesses” (as you call them) don’t create new things. As MPAA has said, they want to remove links in Google, in that way if a person can’t download a file, they will be pushed to buy the product. The only innovation they are bringing is new ways to control what you do on internet.

      • osiris

        lol. Stop watching Fox news, and start thinking for yourself.

        Piracy killing innovation LOL, made my night that did. The only think “killing” innovation is the patenting system, which allows big bullies like Apple to sue everyone over ‘patent’ not innovative one off products.

        • Nope

          And of course you work for free ;)

        • Fredrika

          > “And of course you work for free..”

          All entrepreneurs work for free, because they are not employed. Only employees get paid for their work, but employment issues has nothing to do with the copyright debate or the financial situation for self chosen entrepreneurs.

        • Anyone

          @Nope

          Google is giving their products away for free and they seem to be doing just fine

        • Nope

          Yo Fredrika, care to share some for me, seems like you’re high!

          @Anyone, yeah, they still get plenty of money from ads, you should always remember that when it’s free, you’re the product.

          You’re not waking up every morning to work for free right ? Guess what happens when no one buys your music, your games, your books, everything that is or can be digitalized ?
          You come up with a working alternative, then you call all those corporate guys whatever you want ;)

        • Fredrika

          > “Yo Fredrika, care to share some for me, seems like you’re high!”

          Because i unlike you understand the fundamental difference between employment, where one receives salary for one’s work, in contrast to self chosen entrepreneurs, that never get paid for their work, but only for the goods and services they manage to sell?

          What you would be in need of sharing of is an elementary school education, in particular social studies, where these facts are taught out to all young teens.

          Maybe you missed those because you didn’t share what you were on at the time?

          > “You’re not waking up every morning to work for free right ?”

          All entrepreneurs are, employees are not. Please learn the basics before commenting any further.

        • Nope

          Oh right, now I get what you were trying to say.
          You’re still not quite right (though you made a relatively valid point earlier).
          But just don’t make assumptions, I probably know way more than you about employment.

          Also, an entrepreneur can do the exact the same job as an employee behind a desk, just so you know. The only exception here is that the amount of money will depend on the amount of work received, while an employee is going to get the same amount of cash at the end of the month.

          At the end, the result is the same, if you don’t get paid for your work, you’re not going to stay at the position you’re occupying.

        • Fredrika

          > “Oh right, now I get what you were trying to say.”

          Trying? I meant exactly what i wrote word by word, and every single one of them was factual and correct exactly as they were written.

          > “You’re still not quite right..”

          Please quote that of what i wrote that you believe to not be 100% correct, and i will help you read it properly, so that you understand what i actually wrote, and why it indeed is 100% correct exactly as it was written.

          > “(though you made a relatively valid point earlier).”

          Fully valid is the term you’re looking for.

          > “But just don’t make assumptions, I probably know way more than you about employment.”

          Yet you continue to prove that you don’t?

          > “Also, an entrepreneur can do the exact the same job as an employee behind a desk, just so you know.”

          That was never the discussed topic, now was it?

          > “The only exception here is that the amount of money will depend on the amount of work received, while an employee is going to get the same amount of cash at the end of the month.”

          No, an entrepreneur will get no money regardless of how much work he of his own free will chooses to perform. An entrepreneur is never paid for the work he does. He is paid for the goods and/or services he sells. The —> sale <—is the only thing that grants him any money. Not the work.

          Secondly, an employee’s salary can be both connected to the amount of work he performs, as in with a variable or commission based salary, or not, as with a fixed salary. You couldn’t even get that right?

          > “At the end, the result is the same, if you don’t get paid for your work, you’re not going to stay at the position you’re occupying.”

          An entrepreneur is not occupying a position. He is performing self chosen work. That is not a position.

          However, since the revenues in the culture industry currently are higher than ever before, the competent entrepreneurs in that sector have nothing to worry about.

          Those who sit around and bitch about piracy however, despite the fact that no scientific evidence indicates that it’s even a problem to begin with, those should worry, because they are weak and failed, and as such they deserve no money whatsoever according to the free market rules.

        • Anyone

          well yes
          if you can’t make enough money as an artist, get a dayjob, like 99,9% of the artists

        • danielravennest

          > And of course you work for free ;)

          Yes, actually I do. Here, go read my book:

          http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Space_Transport_and_Engineering_Methods

        • Who

          yep FOX always fucks there viewers over.

      • Jesse Johnson

        “…it will give way for legitimate business to sell their wares on the internet.”
        The businesses need not wait on Usenet to flourish. They can set up shop any time and people will come if the services are well executed at prices are right. The problem is that publishers are unwilling to sell their products at rates affordable by the majority and without cumbersome DRM. The solution is for publishers, which are just middlemen, to be cut out of the loop and let indie developers be the primary entertainment business model. Prices will drop and artistic quality will rise. The developers are only accountable to customers, so the entertainment market will be more responsive and dynamic.

        • Fuckshit

          FUCKING SHITHEAD

        • 1984instructionmanual

          The truth be spoketh.

      • Guest

        Yeah lets shutdown the likes of Youtube as it has copyright infringing videos on it.

      • Schvedka

        Troll! How much are you getting paid for posting comments here on the weekend? Not too much I hope, since you are not even good at it!

        • Ksam

          He probably is not getting paid, did you never hear about “useful idiots”?

      • Anon

        It doesn’t take much creativity to wait until someone else does the hard work, then copy for yourself. lol

        Genuine innovation like iTunes, Amazon Music, Spotify and Pandora have struggled against unlawful piracy from the beginning. Not to worry. Government is just getting started.

        more popcorn.

        • Anyone

          why didn’t you mention steam?

        • Fredrika

          > “Genuine innovation like iTunes, Amazon Music, Spotify and Pandora have struggled against unlawful piracy from the beginning.”

          More history revisionism? Those services have struggled against the copyright holders from the beginning, who because of the copyright monopoly had the possibility to make ludicrous demands that made the margins and possibility for those services almost non-existent. When the copyright holders decided from the start that all approved services should be useless, they of course won’t be able to offer a similar or better product than piracy, and by doing so actually compete.

          In Russia however, where the copyright monopoly don’t control on-line services, but instead logically treats them as radio, the on-line services had no problem whatsoever to compete with Piracy, because they could offer a better product, when the monopoly holders didn’t stand in the way.

          But i guess sticking to the facts and basing your arguments on reality isn’t an option, when your out on a mission to spread propaganda and lies?

          It’s sad that you are so afraid.

        • Guest

          Yeah, I guess iTunes is completely fucked and hasn’t turned a profit at all.

          Oh, wait a minute. It’s just you pulling shit out of your ass and calling it “numbers”. So are pirates breaking less or more law in the past five or ten years? Crawl back to kindergarten and learn how to count, Anon!

        • Ed Chavez

          Sack licker

        • Anon

          Moreover, Steam / iTunes / etc. are a commercial answer to the piracy practices pre-dating their very existence. Not an innovation, merely a tardy change of business model.

        • Shameless

          now hold on a minute Fredrika, in Russia?
          what we have here.. is around 95% piracy amongst our population, and I live here – I know it is true. now we have legal services like Yandex.Music, but they are ALL struggling from the SAME problems as in western countries

          just to clarify about Russia, okay

        • Fredrika

          > “what we have here.. is around 95% piracy amongst our population, and I live here – I know it is true. now we have legal services like Yandex.Music, but they are ALL struggling from the SAME problems as in western countries”

          You are correct, i phrased my earlier comment poorly, to the degree where it could be interpreted as if i was talking about Russian consumers only. In under developed nations like Russia obviously very few will pay for something that they can manufacture themselves for free.

          My comment should however be read in the context to the first paragraph, about what the problem is for the on-line services that Anon mentioned. It isn’t piracy, it’s the regulation in the copyright monopoly, that takes away the possibility for those services to offers something superior to piracy, that’s worth the money.

          The point i tried to make was that the Russian copyright model(which equals on-line services with radio) gives entrepreneurs the possibility to offer on-line services that can compete successfully in those parts of the world where people do feel that some services can be worth the price, instead of doing it themselves for free.

          AllOfMp3 was extremely successful outside of Russia, because the prices and formats an on-line service can offer when equalled to radio, so that the copyright holders can make any demands regarding price, formats or available artists, can indeed compete successfully with piracy in developed country’s, which makes Anon’s point about piracy being the problem invalid.

          > “..just to clarify about Russia, okay”

          I thank you for the feedback on how my comment could be misinterpreted, and i also thank you for your information about the domestic situation in Russia.

          Another part of the world where the domestic situation with piracy is interesting is South America, where, according to the CEO of Netflix, the legal market basically didn’t exist at all, which lead to Netflix being able to offer the latests movies and TV-shows there without any delay at all.

          In other words, the best way to make/force legal on-line services to offer better products is to pirate even more than today.

        • Anyone

          and russian artists still exist?

        • Who

          Pandora is free you fucking moron. and there NOT struggling against ANY piracy at all. its there own stupid shit that there having issues with.

        • Wobblymatt

          Amazon struggle…..?
          They could pay some tax in the UK no?
          First Newzbin then Nzbmatrix it’s been a bad few weeks.

        • Scary_Devil_Monastery

          Genuine innovation like Linux. Oh, only 90% of the world’s servers run on that. Of course. No genius there.

          Or Google. No genius there.

          And just to point out, that still isn’t popcorn you’re eating.

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ender-Wiggin/100000885624281 Ender Wiggin

        i thinkk you’re full of shit and have no idea what’s going on. or that you’re a shill.

      • JordanKratz

        Screw you and go shop in one of your damn Walmarts !!!

      • Guest

        Hahaha.

        Let me help you.

        I think that the entertainment industry who are really really nice, generous, ethical and law abiding and democratic people who really love children and combat pederasty and who never murder artists should get ride of internet and computer technologies because it is always spreading material that should not be spread such as the true about them.

      • Andrew Lee

        This may be however we don’t ban cars just because we could run someone over,smuggle drugs,getaway cars, and so on.

        There is a potential for abuse with just about every single thing that exist.

        A DVD busted could be a prison shank.
        A fork in the eye.
        A gallon of water and a rag for waterboarding.
        A piece of glass from a window,busted beer bottle ect..
        A Nokia 3310 to beat someone to death with.

        Copyright is actually the culprit when it comes to killing innovation. Innovation by improving upon someones work is also just as important as new ideas. In fact it can lead to new ideas.
        The EV1 for example would have not been killed if the oil industry did not hold the rights for battery technology that could have put us in a new age by now.

        If your product is being pirated you’re doing it right obviously. If piracy was killing shit why did Avatar demolish the box office record?

        • IDIOCRACY

          I still have one (the 3310) :D wanna borrow it?

        • joexxx

          There are no battery technologies to this date that can make EVs viable, so let’s not go there.

        • Scary_Devil_Monastery

          Actually, there is a good case for classifying the Nokia 3310 as a military weapon. I’m pretty sure that thing could crack tank armor.

          But you are quite right about the other parts.

      • LS

        If there was a legitimate service like usenet I’d pay for it, there isn’t. The demand is there but there is no supply. The innovation is there (20 year old usnet) yet companies still want to sell me their shoddy streaming service.

        Innovation is stifled by large companies not the other-way round.

      • Waylaidback

        Who are you? The janitor that lost his job due to music downloading as RIAA would have us believe. Shut yer yap you schmuck.

      • Who

        again another that don’t know SHIT about how business works.

      • Who

        BTW Wal-Mart’s is failing because it no longer practices good business. hence Y they lost there BBB affiliation.
        and a LOT more are fallowing them.

      • Scary_Devil_Monastery

        “Piracy is killing innovation. It needs to stop.”

        Oh, you mean the Open-Source sector isn’t, in fact, the most innovative software sector on the planet?

        Wal-Mart, you’re obviously new at this. When the boss tells you to troll the forums, be advised that just copying and pasting the list of faux excuses isn’t enough. You need to provide an ad hominem and a straw man as well in order to earn your 50 cents for the post.

  • JoTimmJo

    Pretty scary man, looks like the wild west days of the internet are truly over. Sad.

    GotzAnon.tk

    • Kvanslyke

      I havent been this sad since my HU card on Directv stopped working. Fact that stuff is dissapearing off USENET servers is crazy

    • No

      Nope. If anything, it’s just gotten wilder. It’s back to the good old days when you needed half-a-brain and the ability to keep your mouth shut to get the good stuff. The mass popularization of piracy had to stop someday but the savvy pirates will keep on truckin.

      • Anon

        VERY VERY true the serious tech guys will go deeper and the public will be flushed out for sure.

        The drive by downloads are over with. New tech may allow the public to play a part but I suspect it will get just too complex as most of them freak out about bit coin let alone anything else.

        There are ways to create totally distributed and encrypted networks but the problem is the tech bar rockets. It will once more become the realm of the CS student and IT workers from whence it came.

        Everyone else will simply not be able to keep up with the learning curve and will simply buy from the improving price dropping legitimate downloading online options rapidly filling the space behind sites like this.

        The big media companies KNOW THIS and would accept it as a fair balance and they will bow right out when they achieve it knowing they cannot clean out those that resist at a high tech level beyond that they can employ people to dismantle.

        I suspect NZB sites will be obliterated but the raw usenet servers/groups will be left alone eventually as without the indexing they are basically useless to Joe public. The strategy is obvious they do not want to stop piracy just make it so hard the joe public people simply pay up for the legitimate options.

        • Fredrika

          > “The drive by downloads are over with. New tech may allow the public to play a part but I suspect it will get just too complex as most of them freak out about bit coin let alone anything else.

          > There are ways to create totally distributed and encrypted networks but the problem is the tech bar rockets. It will once more become the realm of the CS student and IT workers from whence it came.

          > Everyone else will simply not be able to keep up with the learning curve..”

          Yeah, because technology and software gets more complicated for the user with every new generation, right? Windows 8 or any other latest generation OS is extremly difficult compared to DOS 6.22?

          In reality the next generation filesharing protocols will be easier than ever before to setup and use, and as a bonus they will be safer and impossible to stop either legislatievly or technically.

          Now try to produce a more logical prophesy on what will happen with piracy when earth’s entire population can fileshare illegally with it easier than ever before, and completely safe as a bonus. Will the numbers grow or decline?

          > “The big media companies KNOW THIS and would accept it as a fair balance..”

          Since society has no proven need for the copyrihght monopoly in the first place, the only fair thing would be to dismantle it completely, you do understand that, right? Society doesn’t use legislative monopolies out of kindness or to create a subjectively perceived level of fairness, you are aware of that fact, right?

          > “The strategy is obvious they do not want to stop piracy just make it so hard the joe public people simply pay up for the legitimate options.”

          Since society has no proven need for the copyright monopoly piracy is a legitimate option.

        • Ed Chavez

          Gee, you mean like Mega will be.

        • Guest

          “The drive by downloads are over with.”

          *Looks at the stats on The Pirate Bay’s front page. 30.848.650 peers.*

          Nope. Unless by “over with” you mean “not remotely over with with, at all”.

          “Everyone else will simply not be able to keep up with the learning curve”

          Click magnet link. Download file.

          Learning curve?

        • Scary_Devil_Monastery

          And once again we have Baghdad Bob, cheerfully predicting that any day…any day now the heroic forces of the republican guard will drive the infidel invaders out of Iraq and reinstate Saddam as the glorious and fearless head-of-state.

          And yes, folks. It IS that sad.

          Anon, every time a centralized service has shut down, the answer has been decentralization. There have been dozens of decentralized usenet browing clients and indexers. And they will simply be back once again, turning what was once laborious into a simple point-and-click operation.

          Or the paradigm has shifted away from Usenet, into another way of filesharing which has emerged as the standard model of resiliency and ease.

          Your incessant claims that any day now they will parade pirates through the street to great wailing in the background has as much basis in reality as the idea that Saddam’s rotting corpse will hold high office in Iraq.

          Less.There actually IS historical precedent for “Dead leaders on the throne”.

          So, once again, we aren’t seeing in the real world what you are describing. What we are seeing is the darknet growing to take the place of the internet, for the common joe in the street as well as for the pirates.
          What we see is nine year old girls being pursued for downloading a song, bringing more and more pirates into our folds. We see people like you cheering over the last and claiming that real justice isn’t served until filesharers are raped – again bringing more and more new pirates to our side.

          In short, we are seeing a repeat performance of what’s happened EVERY DAMN TIME technology and ordinary moral has fought copyright. We always win.

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1402010920 Brandon Bradshaw

        Well… all this news does is prove the first rule of UseNet:

        YOU DONT TALK ABOUT USENET!!!!!! When any 13 year old with a laptop can commit over $5m in “copyright infringement” in an afternoon… Its just become too “popular” with mainstream.

        “Back in the old days” you used to have to really LEARN things to be able to get things you wanted. Now, any joker with a search engine can find just about whatever they want, within minutes, free of charge…

        One thing to point out though that these greedy idiots in Hollywood, the music industry and internet censorship just dont seem to get—> Stealing results in one less, copying makes one MORE!!!

        This being said, what better compliment could you have than 200m downloads of your work? Do you mean to tell me that because you dont make $100m per movie anymore that you are now bankrupt? Gimme a break…

        Its not that the economy is being harmed by services like UseNet… Its that the people with the deepest pockets, that can bribe their representatives into doing the unthinkable.

        Greed = death… Just look at history. I mean real history too, not just the group of lies that the rich and powerful agree on to put in text books…

        • Bob

          I still remember having to browse hundreds of threads just to find what I was looking for, and that was before retention was so high. I can only imagine how bad it would suck to go back over a year of posts to find something.

        • Barf

          2 words for you: boo hoo.

          Usenet was never secret to begin with.

          No one cares… people will keep on sharing.

        • Scary_Devil_Monastery

          “”Back in the old days” you used to have to really LEARN things to be able to get things you wanted. Now, any joker with a search engine can find just about whatever they want, within minutes, free of charge…”

          Better, in my book. I’m sick and tired of lusers having to be told how to tie their shoes where I can now say “Point, click, press ‘yes’. Now never touch it again”.

          “Do you mean to tell me that because you dont make $100m per movie anymore that you are now bankrupt? Gimme a break…”

          That’s not the problem. the problem is mainly that big Warner, EMI and Sony are shitting bricks because an artist today can reach a hundred million people without signing away 99% of his next four years worth of profits to them. That’s why the entire war on “filesharing”. and that’s why Sony’s CEO in a rare moment of truthfulness confessed that he could see nothing positive having come from the internet.

          And that’s why cyberlockers, even DMCA-compliant ones immediately come under fire the very second they promote a for-the-artists service.

          It’s my guess that the activation of “promo bay” will also result in immediate focus on that site as well.

      • No

        Scene is still scene and hasn’t changed that much. The only thing that’s changed is how far the ripples reach. They’ve been going after sceners for years with little luck. I don’t see that changing anytime in the next 20 years either.

    • Anon

      the wild west days. well said. not sad.

  • Guest

    RIP NZBMatrix. You’ll be missed. Sigh.

  • 1hhh1

    Maybe some good news Demonoid.hk was registered yesterday

  • GUEST

    are there other private or hidden sites like http://nzbs.org/login?redirect=%2F http://dognzb.cr/login and http://nzb.su/ ?

    • Guest

      a plenty. try to google: powered by newznab

    • Guest too

      Hello,

      Have you registered to these ? How do you get invitations ?

      • Formulabill

        You have to watch the site and wait for open enrollment or find an ass to kiss to get an invite.

      • Guest too too

        or try password recovery, you might have registered to these sites and forgot about it…. well, i did. i registered to these sites long time ago because nzbmatrix was having uptime problems. really glad i did…

  • Guest

    First they came for the communists,
    and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist.

    Then they came for the socialists,
    and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a socialist.

    Then they came for the trade unionists,
    and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist.

    Then they came for me,
    and there was no one left to speak for me.

    • http://twitter.com/BobDaTemp BobDaTemp

      No pal, after that group of losers was gone theres still 85% of us left. We’ll cover yer back. Besides, the communist, socialist, union thugs are the ones in charge now.

      • Jesse Johnson

        You miss the point of the quote entirely.

        • Schvedka

          Very young person obviously, or an unusually brainwashed American.

        • Sii

          Kyss mig, ???????

        • Right wing retards

          for @ BobDaTemp ….I would pick…..hmmmm…..brainwashed American.

          Wouldn’t say “”unusually brainwashed American.”".

          There is a mass of brainwashed tards over there…. too much fox news.

        • http://twitter.com/BobDaTemp BobDaTemp

          And for you a regular old MSNBC tard obviously. Funny how one outlet on the other side scares you morons to death. I guess the media is the one places you socialists love a monopoly

        • Img4

          All Americans are brainwashed….

        • http://twitter.com/BobDaTemp BobDaTemp

          No, I guess you do. But its not like math would be a liberals strength anyway.

      • LS

        Where are “communist, socialist, union thugs” im charge?

        Every country is run by capitalist corps with the exception of around 3 countries.

        • Scary_Devil_Monastery

          Not exactly…Corporatism today = State Monopoly yesterday.

          Or what would you call it when the state has to pour massive amounts of tax money into saving a failed business regularly, and when the business and the state are hard to separate anymore?

        • http://twitter.com/BobDaTemp BobDaTemp

          Well that would be all the elected people with the D next to their names. No business can take money at gun point. the government can and does. And just look at the what happens when you threaten the union thugs in Michigan.

        • Stu

          @twitter-7433872:disqus
          Nothing you spit here is factual, articulate, relevant, interesting. You seem to struggle with society because it involves other humans. We will read about you one day because of some horrible thing you’ll do. Stop typing and go get a soul.

      • Scary_Devil_Monastery

        He’s paraphrasing a catholic priest from Münster in Germany who spoke that quote when asked why the church didn’t stand up for the jews.

        And what the priest answered was in the form of the above, but with gypsies, homosexuals and jews. Finally when they came for him, every dissenter had already been removed.

        Far easier to pick off your enemies if they stand one by one.

        • http://twitter.com/BobDaTemp BobDaTemp

          Yep, I’ve heard that long before you. Its the choice of replacements that is pathetic

      • Nanna

        Not all of us Americans are brainwashed. Sad to say that I have to live in a country with assholes like him while the whole world makes fun of us. This fucking idiot does not represent me or our country (as a whole) in any way shape or form. If we could deport them we would, but alas, people like him have pissed off practically every other country in the world and took the word “conservative” to a completely different level… Please forgive him, he isn’t very educated.

  • Fuck Mafia

    WTF? I just log in a few hours ago! Any alternatives?

    • Asshole

      it’s a world conspiracy against you

  • koen

    RIP

    was my favorite very nice rss feed :(

  • Chappy

    As a moderating staff member I can speak for all the rest of the staff that we are extremely sad to see the end of the site. It was my hobby for over 6 years.

    • Danielebc

      Please send an email whith some suggestions on how to fill the gap to all your registred customers, please do it.
      Thanks. Daniele

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1333456604 Eric Stephan

        same here danielebc

    • Mark010572

      go f–k your self i just payed for life membership for nothing.why take my money if you know your going to close a day later?????

      • Anon

        lol no honor among thieves.

        • Anyone

          you would know

      • Yar

        Chill, it’s 10 bucks.
        DMCA Notices give you somewhere in the range of 24 hours to do the takedown. This means they didn’t know yesterday. It may have been considered, but the final straw was in minutes…

      • Barf

        Protip: If you’re paying for “piracy”, you’re “Doing It Wrong”(tm).

      • Lycan

        File lawsuit against the owner they call Flash

    • Bigmac

      It is a real shame mate, especially to close the front end and the forum. The forum on its own I think could have survived and been a good place.

      • Wwall01

        agreed i love that forum.. please keep that open

      • Drfeelstrange

        Howzit Bigmac, I’ll sure miss your posts you were and are the cool head in our little world of Matrix Mayhem.
        Take care and Mahalo for your advise and knowledge.
        Aloha drfeelstrange

        • Bigmac

          Hope you take care and find a new place. Lots of us over at the su and the in. Forums aren’t as good but wherever the bulk end up I am sure that will change.

    • Drfeelstrange

      hey Chappy, I know you from the matrix, I wish to tell you and the rest of the modes, Much MAHALO!! I’ve been and learned alot from you all over the years.
      Thanks for the fun times and please tell Flash, he will be missed. Aloha Drfeelstrange.

    • Freja

      I paid for Life membership only a few days ago. It would have been nice with a heads-up……. !
      Surely this did not happen overnight.
      You did a great job, but you I don’t believe you just woke up this morning and decided to close the site down due to all the harassment. When you started considering it, you should have stopped accepting life membership payments.

      • PelouzeTF

        wow, you really dont understand the scum that run these sites. Say goodbye to your money.

        • Jam

          Agreed even if the takedowns were genuine (which I know 95% of them were) it just seems a bit strange that within the space of one day they suddenly close. What makes me suspicious is that it came THE DAY AFTER they started having issues with their Paypal account. Bad luck is bad luck but this is too much. Paypal send out warnings when they are about to suspend an acctount…so why still take sign ups if you know closing is on the cards (or at least maybe)? According to a forum post I read elsewhere the exact same people were behind another site that mysteriously vanished overnight too.

        • PelouzeTF

          “.so why still take sign ups if you know closing is on the cards (or at least maybe)?”

          They carry on taking money because they’re scumbags. It should be of no surprise to anyone that when you lie down with a dog that has fleas, you get fleas.

        • Gadly

          Paypal must have changed their ways. They ‘froze’ my account ($613) because they confused my name with someone else’s. And just think, the names were spelled different! It took me 8 days to find out why, and almost a month to convince them I wasn’t the guy who had a last name ‘similar’ to mine (okay, one letter off). Of course the fact that I’m in North America and the other guy was apparently in EurAsia didn’t matter. I bailed shortly afterwards.

        • dsfg

          @Jam

          “Paypal send out warnings when they are about to suspend an acctount”

          Bullshit.

    • FUCK NZBMATRIX

      FUCK NZBMATRIX!!!

      All you care is about $$$ collecting vip membership and restricting non-paying members here and there. Why are there so many movies untagged! “Want to TAG a movie? Become a VIP member” Yeah my ass!!! Go fuck yourself!!!!

    • Volswagn

      I loved NZB and was a member. I moved after the initial Newzbin closed down and great to love NZB after some initial transition issues. :)

      Very sad to see it gone. Now wish I would have helped with indexing on other sites to stay in the mix. I swore I would never buy another Time/Warner DVD/Blu-Ray after they basically destroyed HD-DVD (which I stupidly invested in). Then when I went to watch a new movie on my laptop recently that I had PURCHASED on DVD, it said I couldn’t because of copyright protection. I was steaming mad. I shouldn’t have to pirate stuff to watch what I want, but sometimes it’s the only way…

    • Tony W

      Thanks. as to Mark Chappy did not just close it they had to end. I think anyone who paid in the last 2-4w should be refunded. I donated but that was time ago. BTW Chappy can you access ANY forum threads? I had one

  • Nuro

    What am I supposed to do now!?!? :(

    Sad they just killed it with no warning… also wish they at least let the forum stay open… were some great people there I wont be able to talk to anymore :(

    A very sad day!

  • http://twitter.com/ErestynOfficial Craig Moore

    Damn shame. I guess Matrix got too big for it’s own good. I’ll miss the community, that’s for sure; the forums were always a good laugh.

  • Freja

    Seriously, somebody should set up a memorial or a graveyard for all the EXECUTED filesharing sites.

    One day this area will be remembered as the “witch hunt” days of the internet.

    That is, if history hasn’t been re-written to call it “stamping out of terrorism and peadophilia and peaceful democratization/commercialisation of the internet.

    • http://travismccrea.com Travis McCrea

      My fork of the kopimist church (http://kopimism.me) has been acquiring filesharing sites that were facing shutdown and legal issues for the past year and a half. http://tuebl.ca http://tormovies.org and now http://librarypirate.ph are all websites which have been “saved”. I wish nzbmatrix would have reached out to us, as we would have gladly taken over operations of the website and servers to ensure their site didn’t go down.

      • Joechip

        contact them. They will probably still have all their server content etc.

  • Nathan

    Nice of them to let all of the Newzbin2 migrants pay for lifetime VIP memberships a few weeks before they decide to shut down. Not like these take-down notices are a recent development, they had to know they were shutting down in the near future, yet they happily collected thousands of dollars from member sign-ups in the weeks leading up to their closure.

    • PastTense

      People who payed by credit card might try a chargeback.

    • Mark010572

      Yeah real nice to take our money then shut down …some say rip..i say burn in hell

      • LoyalPatriot

        what the fuck ever dude. Whatever you paid, you got your money’s worth even if you only downloaded 1 movie. So STFU and go google the next big thing and move on with your life.

      • afrowolf

        After years of happy membership on NZBMatrix, it’s really a tragedy to know that their shutdown cost you ten dollars. I’ll be lighting a candle for you.

      • Amanadasa

        Dude – shut your mouth! Less than 10 bucks… whatever you got, I am sure you got your money’s worth. I enjoy watching TV series.

        Don’t be cheap!

        NZBMatrix were the best. Hope they keep the forum up!

        I am sure the founders will look at other means of getting the information out there.

        The “industry” is just killing themselves… all movies are crap, games are a rehash of old stuff… there is NO innovation out there, and the mafia needs to ensure they make as much money as possible…

        Good to be free and not be part of the sheeple group!

        • PelouzeTF

          Dont you mean “Dont be cheaper than you already are ” ??

  • Freja

    Exactly 1 week after I bought a “life membership” for €10.
    I am not being critical but I wonder if they knew this was coming?
    RIP anyway!

    • Formulabill

      I feel you I got dicked by nzbsrus and now nzbmatrix, so happy I could donate to keep them alive for 4 more days. :|

      • Pitiviperx

        same here , just payed a week ago and now shut down, its a pain in the a… they definitely knew they were going to shut down, this things don’t happen so suddenly especially that they took the site down voluntarily

        • Guest

          It could have all been decided after one phone call for all we know.

    • Petnzme

      When Hunger games was taken off..(about a month ago).that’s when I started to think something was going on.

  • Vrando

    Was a great site just from the design/functionality perspective. Not paying these companies goes without saying, but will have to think of additional ways to help them to lose money.

  • Foo

    All good things must come to an end.

  • Dean

    Just moved to nzbmatrix from newzbin2, even paid premium, had it for less than a week. fuck this shit.

    • guest

      same here, just signed up after another indexing site just closed…

      me as well, gutted. falling back to usenet providers search engine which sucks

      • Joechip

        Poor you. I am weeping for your discomfort.

        • BtizeF200

          here, take my virtual tissue to wipe your virtual tears.

  • Disgruntled

    Cashed in on the Newzbin members, then fecked of somewhere sunny to count the cash. Doubt I’ll be willing to pay for another indexing service. It wasn’t an overnight decision,so they should be refunding everyone who paid in the last week or so.

    The owners should be names & shamed!!

    • Malakai

      These guys have been up for ages. Its unfortunate you paid for a lifetime membership just before things fell apart for them. Its your fault you missed out on such an amazing indexer.

      • BarakaX

        I, like many others, greatly preferred Newzbin/Newzbin2 above all else. I was with them for nearly 9 years until they folded a couple of weeks ago. Naturally, I needed a replacement. I settled with NZBMatrix and NZB.su. I paid them a combined $18 or so. That means I’m out about $10 for 11 days of membership with NZBMatrix. The only saving grace is that NZB.su hasn’t folded (yet).

        People who stuck with Newzbin for months/years and then signed up with NZBMatrix as a replacement, only to be screwed after less than 2 weeks of membership, are right to be angry. This is NOT the way to do things! And it’s definitely NOT cool to blame people for “missing out” on one service, after being the loyal customer of another for so long!

        I don’t see much of a future for NZB indexing services if the remaining providers treat their customers the same way. You’ve been warned.

        • Random

          Honestly the thing you should be most worried about is giving your credit card information to shady internet pirates who have folded without a word about what they plan to do with all the highly sensitive user information they’ve collected, a large amount of which is traceable to actual real life names. On the other hand, you can consider whether the $10 you spent wound up saving you money in the long run as opposed to buying whatever content you procured in the retail markets. I’m guessing most people who signed up at nxbmatrix wound up ahead.

    • Joechip

      You are an idiot, nuff said.

  • mrfixit

    nothing lasts forever

  • A Seldo

    Gutted anyone know of other sights like the matrix :-(

  • mrfixit

    i feel like a drug addict going to rehab now

    • jongoesboom

      that’s what this feeling is then huh? it’s terrible.

  • xstation

    any alternatives?

  • http://twitter.com/ErestynOfficial Craig Moore

    To everybody calling for the heads of the owners: I highly doubt it was their idea to fob off so many users. There had been payment issues that had been going on for a while and it seems that, coupled with the notices and difficulty they were facing in abiding them, they decided to call it a day. It’s incredibly unfortunate (I had a similar experience with NewzBin) but it’s just one of those things, I guess.

    It would be nice if they refunded the money to new users, but where’s the cut off point? It’s not like they can say “yeah, we’ll refund everybody who bought premium a week before closure” because people who bought an account 8 days ago will whine. A very tricky position.

    • Nathan

      November 28th/29th would be the obvious cut off point since that’s when newzbin2 closed and when a lot of us started signing up there.

      • TheMinstrel

        I suppose. I’d love to see them do it, too.

  • Ali3nx

    Dear Paramount Home Entertainment International Limited; Sony Pictures Walt Disney Company Twentieth Century Fox Universal Pictures and Warner Bros. Entertainment,

    Fuck you. I refuse to buy anything from you shiteaters. Your obsolete attempts to keep your business relevant while stamping out competition is evil and immoral on so many levels.

    Go die in a fire so the world can continue a technological evolution without your disruptive attempts to enforce your failing relevance.

    Yours never,

    The internets

    • Kid_Ka$h

      As much as I used NZBmatrix and newsgroups, saying it’s competition and the companies are evil and immoral for wanting to get rid of them is wrong.

      They have the right to try and prevent it.

    • JordanKratz

      Seconded !
      Fuck You MAFIAA and Die a Painful Death.
      You need to be fully exposed to the Public you fucking asshole thieves.
      Boycott all their Shit !
      Never pay them a dime in any way or form.
      Spend your money on cool Art.

      • McCheezits

        And how do you suppose we do all of those things you have mentioned?

    • Joechip

      Hail to that bro.

  • WolVriNE

    Rest in peace Madame Trix.

  • chronoss

    NZBSRus is also down….
    looks like NZB’s are now totally dead

    • Jlasoreilly

      Lol ya because paid site are the only option.

      • chronoss

        no it aint and im not telling
        dont ask
        like i say you got to have a damn clue what usenet is first.

        • Steve Donaghy

          Seriously, we need to stop with this elitist bullshit attitude if we’re ever to progress anywhere. You’re effectively saying “Omg n00b, you don’t know what the fuck usenet is so I’m not going to help you with Usenet related shit”. Give me a break here, everyone had to start somewhere.

        • chronoss

          your a idiot or lawyer for the mpaa
          and i aint helping neither

          one smart ass once said never stand out front of the cop shop yelling your doing a drug deal

          this is what places like this have done by posting any links
          YOU FUCKED yoursleves and others buy doing it.
          im sick and tired of the public morons that ruin it for everyone cause they cant keep there fucking mouths shut

          IF YOU ARENT SMART YOU GET NOHTING NOW LOOK AT MY PARENT POST YOU FUCKING ASWIPE RETARD
          not to mention oh nvm needs be painted on your fucking retard forhead.

          and a system has been setup where by if you know a solid person you can get drugs right well start fuckign using that system and they wont win the war on file sharing neither

        • SomeYahoo

          if you cant tell somebody what it is and you look down on them for not knowing something you refuse to tell them then all i have to say is whatever you’ve got, i don’t want

          i can find an equal alternative without your ‘blessing’, been there, done it, will do it again, will make it on my own if i have to, you ain’t a special snowflake time to get off that high horse

        • SomeYahoo

          @Steve Donaghy

          indeed. the irony is that if i really wanted to, i could probably with an hour, a keyword and couple clicks find out more about whatever super special thing they think they’re too good to tell anyone (IF i don’t *already know* more), that’s always the case with elitists in my experience, thinking their hot shit cause they figured out how to turn the microwave on

  • Jongoesboom

    A very sad day for usenet users indeed. Does anyone have any DOGnzb or NZB.su invites?

  • H4rfang

    FUCK the Federation Against Copyright Theft Limited (“FACT”), when the fuck they will learn that Piracy IS’NT THEFT! LEARN THE FUCKING DIFFERENCE !!

    • Vrando

      Never? They are lawyers, they don’t care if they are representing child murderers as long as they get paid. And the capitalists they represent would sell their moms to be gang raped if brought a decent profit.

      • chronoss

        so your attitude is lay back let your ass get raped? GO FUCK YOURSELF
        while hte rest of us actually go beat up one of them for real.

        its you damn fuckin pussies that ruin it for everyone if you had onmass got out ther ein front of there buildings with baseball bats in the tens a thousands they would not be so able to jack shit.

        and this you dimwitted dumbfuck americans is what you give to the world with oBUMA

      • Nathan

        In a truly capitalist society we wouldn’t have a monopolized entertainment industry and such a limited amount of content delivery options. What we have is a corporatist system where those with the money can buy the regulations to eliminate potential competition, force their overpriced wares on the people, and purchase the regulations needed to punish those who dare threaten their existence.

        • StephenTimmsBodyguard

          In a vast ocean of ignorance, there stands an island called Nathan.
          In other words, ‘this ^^”

        • Jesse Johnson

          This is an example of why we implement harsh laws banning money from politics.

        • chronoss

          and ina truly communist one and in a truly ..oh nvm , these self entitled lazy fucking lawyer cock knocker types are gonna get what they got coming this summer they all better run to the village and hide on that “the prisoner” island..

          the top ten nations to live in ( and the usa isnt included ) are all considered socialist and had ot be pressured and bullied by the usa to adopt asinine copyright laws and they inc anada might even have used an illegal govt

          its the by any and all means
          guess they need to seize some more 9 year olds winnie the poh laptops

      • H4rfang

        why Chris Dodd would sell his mom to be gang raped when he already do it for free with Joe Biden, Barack Osama and all of his other friend from the MAFIAA :)

  • KhalidX

    Nzbmatrix made it easy . Too easy in my opinion and bought attention to newsgroups. People may actully have to search for files now. What a concept. Will not affect me from getting a thing

    • chronoss

      i agree just that was a nice easy site as you say …but ya if you know what you want they can’t stop ya ( winks )

  • Gustavetd

    Usenet is now different.
    Yeah, would be great to have NZB.su invites, too bad they closed their doors

    • KhalidX

      No its back the way it used to be.

  • Anonymous

    see if i’m not right. once the entertainment industries have managed to shut down every file sharing site that uses any and every type of sharing protocol, using the old adage of how bad all this stuff is, the industries will then try to use those very same protocols, citing how there is no better, faster or safer way of sharing stuff. the fact that they will be wanting to charge at least as much as the rip-off prices they charge atm for physical items from a shop will be immaterial. the fact that all the governments that are doing whatever the entertainment industries tell them to do in order to protect the content wont get a single fucking extra cent from those industries will be irrelevant. they will still be falling over themselves to do more, stating how much money is being lost through ‘piracy’. dozy bastards haven’t got a friggin’ clue!! yet all the while, customers are pleading with those industries to give what is asked for, but are only ignored, meaning the very people relied on for a healthy business get harder kicks in the nuts

  • exmatrixmember

    Those looking for an alternative, nzbs.in seems to be the place the matrix community is migrating too.

    • savagestranger

      Just curious, how did you learn this? Is there an irc channel?

  • Techanon

    “While there are still many alternatives to NZBMatrix around, it’s become increasingly clear that copyright holders are determined to wipe Usenet clean bit by bit.”

    That may be their intention, but they are only succeeding in wiping the ones that are friendly/tolerant to them leaving the shady and the defiant to grow.

  • mi2

    A very sad day indeed to see NZBMatrix shut down, i was around from the start in 2005 and been a site Moderator for 7 years and seen the site grow from a handful of members into a great community and met many good people on the journey.I hope to see some of you around the web on my travels.RIP NZBMatrix ;( a very sad mi2 ;)

    • Bigmac

      Pretty sad mate, losing the forum and all the people there is probably the worst bit. There are other nzb sites and we all survived before them but the forum was a fun place.

    • afrowolf

      Thanks for all your hard work, mi2! I’m glad I was a member for so long.

    • Tunamaster

      Hi mi2, very sad indeed :(
      Thanks for all your hard work though. :)
      But if you hear of anything new in the pipeline, could you possibly email me a link… I know I’m being cheeky and probably asking too much, but it would be very much appreciated. ;)
      tunamaster@hotmail.com

  • hikaricore

    See? This is why the first rule of usenet is that you don’t… oh the hell with it nevermind.

    • KhalidX

      Exactly.

  • WolVriNE

    Me got nzb.su ages ago when i got Sickbeard.

    When i realised they had an API system, i was on it like hot cakes. Just in case.

    And oh boy was i right.

    • http://www.facebook.com/andrew.webb Andrew Webb

      Hmm. Do tell.

    • David Schnepp

      Hey WolVriNE, Show a brother some compassion and get me an invite. I just bought a new NAS box got my Sickbeard and SAB hooked up last night, and then the Matrix went offline, you have no idea the spirit it put me in today.

      • http://www.facebook.com/mattias.svensson1 Mattias Svensson

        Just use sickbeards built in indexer

  • WolVriNE

    You will be missed mods, p.s. Does my forum ban still count?

    • chaeo

      Indeed it does, it’s forever. I think the whole ‘shaving balls’ thread killed it, DMCA is just a cover story.

      • ExNZBmatrixUser

        LOL, yep they were kiddies balls

    • ExNZBmatrixUser

      Ha, recognize that username. I was thinking it had shut to all but the elite but you were around forever so I guess it really is shut.

  • kevzbox

    The 3 best NZB indexing sites are all private by invitation only, I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for an invitation, I’ve been with one of them for around 3 years and I’ve never received an invitation to hand out, they also state they “occasionally” open the site for new registrations but in those 3 years I’ve never seen it happen. A few years ago people were saying that Usenet was sacrosanct, untouchable … apparently not when the indexing sites are going down faster than a Thai Hooker. It amazes me how much political power the Music & Movie Industry can exert on a global level, then again it amazes me that some kid in a bedroom with a laptop is probably developing a new protocol to share files as we speak. There will always be alternatives.

    • SomeYahoo

      “The 3 best NZB indexing sites are all private by invitation only, I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for an invitation, I’ve been with one of them for around 3 years and I’ve never received an invitation to hand out, they also state they “occasionally” open the site for new registrations but in those 3 years I’ve never seen it happen.”
      ———-

      so in other words, if you are an introvert who doesn’t have time or desire to hang around for years lathering people up like a cat begging for food you’re fucked because you will never get an invite, thats far inferior than just doing it the way i already know which is downloading/recording stuff off of youtube i dont need an invite to do that

      so yeah, fuck usenet, it can die for all i care, and all it’s elitist “if you don’t know what it is you’re not worth my time” mentality with it

      • nixdat

        It’s nothing to do with elitism, and everything to do with keeping a low profile to avoid the the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and being shut down, and If I want to download the latest movie or game I don’t go fucking looking for it on youtube.

        • Random

          I see your point, but frankly the notion that what causes sites to get shut down or not is related to whether they are public or invite-only is ludicrous. Big Content is going to go over sites which they see as having the greatest impact on the bottom line, full stop. Sites which are invite-only necessarily have a smaller user-base, and that’s why they aren’t at the top of the list. If any of the invite-only sites do rise to the top of that list, you can bet that being “invite only” is not going to keep the lawyers away.

  • Hjg

    Why do I have the feeling these fast takedowns have to do with the Batman release?

    • Randy Lahey

      Because they do. They were disappearing from Astraweb within a few hours, which is unheard of. Usually you have at least a few days, or even a week.

      • Viet Tran

        A few hours is being extremely generous. Right up until last night, a lot of files were being taken down in within 5 minutes of being fully uploaded to the servers. I had so many incomplete downloads in the past few weeks.

  • Metalicawolf

    WolVriNE….. YES IT DOES lol. Sad day :(

  • bedouin

    Couldn’t a decentralized P2P service be setup to scour newsgroups and share NZBs? Is there any reason one could not run one of these indexing bots themselves to keep a personal cache of NZBs?

    • Guestman

      I wonder if the bitcoin protocol could be modified to accomodate nzb hosting and sharing. Sort of how namecoin is a modification of bitcoin for domain names…

      • Bobby14

        Problem also has to do with files being deleted off the usenet servers…nzb file doesn’t do any good when the provider doesn’t have the file.

  • Duh

    sdfasdfasdf

    • hmass

      fdsafdsafdsa?

  • meatballs125

    This has been coming for such a long time but it was still a shock when i tried to log on this morning and the first thing i saw was the end.

    They may have won the battle but they will NEVER win the war.

    • Drfeelstrange

      meatballs, glad to see you here is this where everyone from the forum is coming to. Maybe we can start a sub group of “the Flash home for the homeless.”
      Any way if you see Dottie or Anyone else tell them, I hope to see you all around somewhere. HAPPY HOLIDAYS drfeelstrange.

  • Jlasoreilly

    been suffering shutdoens since lokitorrent and elite torrent. Went to Usenet after demonoid went down. Frankly each changehas been for the better.

  • KhalidX

    Just use usenet the way you did before nzbmatrix. Site alternatives? Yeah right. Keep it on the hush , people

  • Muppen

    Too bad they didnt say anything before,like a week or so :o(
    Well there are others,but the crazy ppl on that place i sure will miss..

  • chaeo

    RIP teh matriks – great indexer, great forum. Boat drinks.

  • Mute

    i’m in shock really….

    would you guys have any idea what could be a decent alternative?

  • acmedata

    The problem is google. 1. Google promoted website development over software. 2. Sites that routinely shutdown are also top on google. The totrrent sites currently being targetted are top 3 results in google. These witch hunters are not smart (did u not see the movies of those days? ). They basically do a google search for stuff. If people went back writing decentralized software and unindexed sites, most of these problems will disappear. PC games are also pirated but it is so marginal that companies are raking in a billion dollars in sales within 2 weeks. If these services kept a low profile and software development was encouraged it would solve the problems for everyone you know. You let every tom dick and harry download easily and freely then why’d they pay. make them login to IRC channel and the population is dwindled to the small percentile of people.

    • acmedata

      or just upload nzb to grepler.com relevant groups and let others know.

  • Chrome307

    Its a shame NZBMatrix has been taken down by it’s owners, however it is understandable. ‘Flash’ did a great job with the site introducing new features, hey we even had festive holiday themes :).
    Goodbye to all members & staff and hope to see you all online soon :)

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  • ExNZBMatrixUser

    Perhaps they should post the code on TPB, the newznab code is out there, that way everyone can run their own NZBMatrix site that would basically shaft the MAFIAA big time.

  • Pirate For Life

    meh I have not bought a movie since…never *goes back to pirating movies*

    • Anon

      Pirates have long said that Hollywood content is crap and not worth pirating. Now you announce you pirate movies. Why not write and cast and film and cut and launch, advertise and make your own movies? And pay everyone who makes them with you, becuase that’s what they do for their living. Then set them free so you can’t make a dime. Now THAT WILL REALLY show the studios how to do it.
      lol

      :-D

      • Anyone

        why should I limit myself?
        I download whatever I want, and I pay for indy productions

      • Fredrika

        > “Pirates have long said that Hollywood content is crap..”

        No, they say the products they sell are crap, as in the goods and servives. Content is not a product.

        > “Then set them free so you can’t make a dime.”

        All movies are already set free, ask anyone of a billion pirates or try a search engine. And somehow the movie industry manages to make record revenus each year anyway in perfect working symbiosis with all movies being set free.

        Funny that, how absolutely nothing of what you write is based on reality..

        • Anon

          I think “Content is not a product.” is a good indication of your alternate sense of distorted reality. lol

        • Fredrika

          > “I think “Content is not a product.” is a good indication of your alternate sense of distorted reality. lol”

          Take a basic class in economics, or check any consumer legislation of your choice, and you will be able to verify the indisputable fact that the product is what the consumers buy, and consumers can only buy one of two things, goods or services.

          A creative work constitutes neither, because it can not be owned, sold or bought, and the creative work is therefore not a product from the market, consumer or legislative perspective.

          The products that are sold are either the physical copy, in which case the copy is a good, or transference of information on-line with which one can manufacture copies in one’s computer for immediate watching(streaming) or for later viewing(permanent files), in which case the product of transferred information is a service.

          This is reality. These are indisputable facts that can be verified in any economics class or consumer legislation of your choice.

          Please do that, so that you can start to base your arguments on reality, because as it is now, you don’t.

          Nothing you say is corroborated by any copyright legislation, consumer legislation, or any facts regarding physics or logics. Nobel prize winners have already proved your misconception of reality wrong decades ago.

        • Anyone

          @anon

          but content isn’t a product
          it’s just that, content

          if you try to sell that content encumbered with DRM and other restrictions, you might have good content, but a shit product

          piracy fixes that by providing a better product with the same content
          that’s how the free market works, if your product is shit it won’t sell and someone else with a better product will get your business

        • Anon

          Content is not product.

      • Guest

        because the content industries are scum,
        even if they made the best movie in the world, they still wouldn’t deserve a dime from me.

      • Guest

        I pay your taxes for levies on blank media. I pay for people in government to treat me like a criminal. Hell, I have to bear idiots like you calling me a pirate regardless of what my online habits are, because you think the only reason why anyone wants a computer is to be a pirate.

        If I’m going to be called a pirate whatever the hell I do why would I pay more money for the privilege, you industry cocksucker?

    • Anon

      Pirates have long said that Hollywood content is crap and not worth pirating. Now you announce you pirate movies. Why not write and cast and film and cut and launch, advertise and make your own porn? And punish everyone who watches them, because that’s what they do for their living. Then set them free because anything watched fro free means you won’t make a dime. Now THAT WILL REALLY show the studios how to do it.
      lol

      :-D

      Noose is tightening.

  • Barry

    NZB via TOR next please

  • soulcat

    gingadaddy & nzbgrabit not working also

  • mw

    I was totally shocked to see this happen when I checked it thismorning. Just yesterday, things were fine. I agree that it’s bs that the movie and tv companies are pulling these sites, while they will probably just come here and laugh at our comments.

    What the majority of these people don’t understand is how much of a PITA they make it for us. You go to the store and buy a movie, and a few years later, they come out with it on bluray, then you have to buy the digital copy because you can’t put it on your portable device. It’s easier to just go to nzbmatrix or others and download it.

    What I don’t understand is what the difference is between having a public library buy a movie and loan it to people, or if you download it online. We’re just taking the convenience factor of getting in the car and going to the library.

    The funny thing is that no matter how hard these people try, there will *ALWAYS* be something that you can download this stuff. There always has, and always will.

    • Techanon

      Rightsholders don’t like public libraries either. If it where up to them, public libraries wouldn’t have been established 100+ years ago.

  • Bdawg19900

    The real shame is where can we get our xxx content now?

    • USSR

      since when you means ”WE” ?! you are dumb

      • Bdawg19900

        What are you talking about?

    • Guest

      afaik, they never indexed xxx content

      • savagestranger

        yeah they did. nzbxxx

    • bing

      Kleverig.nl

      • KhalidX

        You can forget kleverig . Sorry, registration has been disabled by the administrator.

        Like I said they do not want their sites flooded with nzbmatrix folks .

  • dutchy

    The MatrixNZB will be missed by many R.I.P.

  • Horun

    RIP Matrix.

  • Kingbigdog76

    I’m lost for words.. its not gonna be a merry christmas :(

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mick-Dundee/100002236735201 Mick Dundee

    Obama and the democrats own the internet now. YOU voted for it, not me…Net neutrality. Google and apple members to be in the White House cabinet, hollyweird all loves obama, we are all screwed so suck it up!

    • Anyone

      if only there was net neutrality then none of this bullshit would be happening

      • Viet Tran

        Do you honestly believe that?

        • Anyone

          yes, if there was an actual neutral net none of this would happen
          the DMCA would not apply and it would be a much better place

  • George Of the Jungle

    fawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwk!

  • IRA

    Good Riddance i say.

    matrix made it too easy and contributed to torrent-like mentality of both uploaders and users and it was a god given gift to copyright trolls considering how they spotted, putting all imdb links and whatnot a bit onscure material that otherwise survives auto dmca plague.

    • savagestranger

      dont expect the takedowns to stop. they make requests of the usenet providers. u think that they are gonna stop because they dont have nzbmatrix to check for shit? i doubt it

      • IRA

        you obviously dont know what you are talking about or you cant read.
        dismissed

        • savagestranger

          If it did misinterpret you, which I don’t think that I have, then learn to type moron.
          Rejected

  • First Last

    The most IMPORTANT thing to do right now, is NOT tell everyone the alternatives. This is how they get taken down and noticed… especially this site, which is the first result in google when you type NZBMATRIX, let’s be smart people, this very action is the single reason NZBMatrix got taken down.

    • OneSadBiotch

      Well, tell me..then tell no one. :)

    • Justkidding

      the important thing right now is to let everyone know all the sites so we can group together to defeat the mpaa

  • whatsthepointoflivingNOW

    Takes out gun…Ring Ring, Suicide Hot Line how can I help you…..”Can you Fix NZBMatrix..” “Sorry Sir What’s that?”……BLAM…..Sir?

  • guest

    This is what happens when you don’t respect the first rule. Obviously.

    • Viet Tran

      This has nothing to do with not talking about it. They’ve been onto usenet as long as pirating existed. It was just a low priority target compared to bittorrent for the longest time.

      • savagestranger

        uh yeah, because it became so popular

  • KhalidX

    The scene is still alive . One indexing site cannot kill usenet. Told you folks at nzbmatrix to go private. Fools. Glad I am on private sites where folks do not run their mouths

    • One Sad Biotch

      Ive been using that site for over a year. I never told anyone…well I couldnt explain it if I even wanted to for one..second…WHY would people spread the word? Its SECRET for a reason.Its like the ahole that spots a celebrity and tweets where they are. Um Go ask for a pic and move on…why would you want to share the treat with 500 other people…

      • savagestranger

        lol by that reasoning why would the scene rls anything but internals? i get what ur saying tho. there is prolly a happy medium.

    • Anony

      The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is: you DO NOT talk about Fight Club!

    • Stefandaversa

      do you have any invites left that you can spare? would be greatly appreciated…
      stefandaversa@gmail.com

      • KhalidX

        Invites disabled. They do not want any Nzbmatrix folks. Cant trusss em . No , No , No

  • Jesse Johnson

    How does Obama have anything to do with these corporations sending a DMCA takedown? It was the corporation’s choice to send the takedown and NZBMatrix’s choice to shut down in response.

    • Vrando

      As Chief Executive it’s his choice whether to enforce the DMCA. Of course both Parties receive massive bribes from the entertainment industry, though the Dems are probably a little worse.

      • http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell

        Don’t you believe it, as the saying goes. Dems are LESS likely to take money from various private interests like the entertainment industry, though they do take it sometimes.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mick-Dundee/100002236735201 Mick Dundee

      Did you ever see this under Bush, NO, it was a free market. Obama loves control over anything and everything so just watch and wait sheep

      • Anyone

        he was busy starting wars

  • Pratish Pandit

    ooops

  • trekop

    Once nzbs became popular this was bound to happen. At least we can go back to the days of the masses crying that usenet is too hard to use.

  • http://gear-mentation.myopenid.com/ Gear Mentation

    Oh well, they certainly took down Usenet fast. Within two weeks. I really think this is a big push to get all file sharing to be bittorrent, then use the strikes to shut that down too. The payment providers thing is the biggest problem. That’s the problem we have to solve… I’ve been looking into bitcoins, but even in the event I am able to get some, somehow, most people never will. So, frankly, I do not see much hope for file sharing, except possibly through Mega… and I doubt that can take the place of bittorrent, and even if it could it’s not free. I’m frankly very surprised that the huge community of coders and thinkers out there has failed to secure the future of the free internet.

  • What

    the alternative atm is to everyone to not download anything for a week or 2 let this shit clam the fuck down

    Dont hate the Cracker , Hate the code!

  • Samlock

    Gutted, two tragic deaths today…

    RIP Sir Patrick Moore,

    RIP NZBMatrix.

    o/

  • Vredeout

    We should all ignore usenet for 90 days, make the activity go to zero. Then when the lawyers run out of things to do an loose their jobs we all just go back to the way things were. Then the producers will have all that extra lawyer cash to invest in a decent content provider and figure out how to get stuff into Canada at the same time as everywhere else.

    • dude

      or they use it to target a bunch of people or a website

  • Roswell1701

    I never cared for Usenet. But for those of you who are negatively effected by this, you have my sympathies. It seems they’re chipping away at ANY and EVERYTHING that is related to the NZB file scene. Honestly, I’m surprised Usenet has survived as long as it has. The future belongs to The Dark Net!

  • Andrew me

    If the industry was taking note they would see that this although very sad will not in any way interfere with people downloading content, actually it just encourages more people to look at how to implement a service they cannot take down, like the new MEGA.

    And in all honesty i doubt it will be long before torrenting will be changed to provide anonymity for all, there is just too much money in torrenting to have people just give up, imagine all of the script kiddies looking for ways to improve anonymity, it is the last bridge in the war, and when that bridge is crossed the content monopolists will have nothing to do but try to compete, but by then it will be too late as the hatred towards the industry is so big and so widespread that many will now refuse to even use a reasonable system if it is offered, they should have been on top of this years ago, but there greed got the better of them.

  • Acaldra55

    watch nzb come back in a few months as a private site… only one could wish

  • Guest

    well I guess back to nzbnewz for me, atleast they are not flaming pussies

    • Disgruntled

      Have they not gone too?

  • Hv

    newsbin 2 was better anyways.
    dont look at me like that its true. it was more expensive but had more rare content.

    • Brynden

      Both dead, so how is that relevant. Yea nzbmatrix wasn’t as good as OiNK for music…who cares? Try saying something useful.

  • JimmyCrackedCorn

    I swear UFC had an account on nzbmatrix. I just now got a UFC fight when over the past months they were gone 1/2 hour after posting them. Now I’m able to get it after being up for 8 hours? I imagine they have to contact the providers when they find something well if they lost their source as well??? Let’s face it nzbmatrix was the iPhone of the nzb scene.

    Like someone said above, people need to go back to old school and shut their mouths about usenet.

  • Oakley

    If anyone has an invite on one of the Top 3 private sites I would be willing to trade an invite for an invite on torrentleech reply to this if your interested.

  • Guest

    Need an Alternative?
    Download Grabit, then browse the headers yourself.

    • BINGO

      BINGO!

  • ANONYMOUS

    While i’m the 1st person to say that folks have a right to protect their property, the folks behind things like the DMCA are overdoing it.

    “Fair Use” includes me giving access to anyone I want anything I chose of my legally owned copies.

    If I pay to own something, I have rights that are NOT being respected or upheld the way the like of the MPAA and RIAA are pursuing thngs.

    The problem with the present set of laws and their enforcement is that they are using the same standards and reactions for criminal and non criminal behavior.

    …and THAT is going to cost them far more than the copyright theft has over the long run.

    • Anon

      Geez.
      You have a lot of reading up to do. You aren’t even close to reality.

      And that’s what I’ve been saying for years.

      Better education, a firmer grip on reality and far, FAR better leadership and you’ll have a slim chance of survival. Otherwise government will hunt you cat and mouse forever, while we buy our content that’s for sale, eat our popcorn and have nothing to worry about. Your kind is sport.

      • Guest

        You sure about that, Anon? I’m in Australia and I still can’t legally purchase shows that America has access to. Or are you saying that my country’s not worth it? Wanting the ability to legally buy stuff is criminal?

        By better leadership, do you mean Chris Dodd and Tim Kuik? If that’s your definition of “better leadership”, perhaps you can resign yourself to going down with the ship. Hell, you go down on industry phallus every day; shouldn’t be too hard for you.

        • Anon

          “Wanting the ability to legally buy stuff is criminal?”

          of course not. Want all you like. When the creators/rightsholders are ready to allow you to purchase it, they will. Until then do without. You act as if this were somehow unreasonable, you poor deprived Australian. ;-)

          But use your “wanting” as entitlement to pirate it and expect to go the way of usenet. Now and forever, they will take you down over and over with increasing penalties until you wait and pay, same as always. Or make your own content and distribute it the way you see fit, free, if you wish, as is your right as the creator.

          is this complicated for you?

        • Fredrika

          > “When the creators/rightsholders are ready to allow you to purchase it, they will. Until then do without.”

          That’s not how reality work. Since the dawn of trade a fully functioning option has always been to go home and manufacture the item you want yourself instead. There’s no sustainable reason to do without.

          > “You act as if this were somehow unreasonable..”

          Of course it unreasonable to wait when waiting is not needed?

          > “But use your “wanting” as entitlement to pirate it and expect to go the way of usenet. Now and forever, they will take you down over and over with increasing penalties until you wait and pay, same as always.”

          Yeah, remind me, has infringements or any other fully acceptable phenomenon in society ever been stopped, when society has no proven need to stop it? No, that never happened, so your entire argument is one big failed attempt at history revisionism.

          > “is this complicated for you?”

          Coming from the person who obviously finds it to complicated to distinguish between a good and a service, and the person who finds it to complicated to understand the concepts of reality, the free market and legislative monopolies.

        • SomeYahoo

          “When the creators/rightsholders are ready to allow you to purchase it, they will. Until then do without.”
          —-

          i AM doing without

          i’m doing without without purchasing it

          hey, you wanted me to do without!

        • SomeYahoo

          **that’s supposed to be just one without in a row, my copy key was lagging

      • ANONYMOUS

        Reality as it stands now is exactly the problem. This situation is NOT sustainable.

        …and the most commonly suggested “solutions” that either
        a= the governments, corporations, and public considered themselves in a war
        where the best tech will win
        or
        b= that the public give up freedoms and rights that our ancestors have literally fought and died for over 100′s of years, (and make no mistake this IS about issues like Censorship, Free Speech, Property Rights, etc)

        are both naive and stupidly destructive even to their proponents.

        We need laws and law enforcement that makes sense and that respects the public’s freedoms and rights.

        The Warez hackers who think they can steal products that take man years and considerable sums of money to develop are just as wrong as the MPAA / RIAA like folks who think that I have no property rights or rights of Speech or Fair Use.

        If the MPAA / RIAA folks have their way, the recent attempt of B&N to
        TURN OFF ACCESS TO ALL ELECTRONIC BOOKS YOU BUY FROM THEM IF / WHEN YOUR MEMBERSHIP TO B&N EXPIRES
        will be mainstream.
        (The above made me instantly decide to keep buying paper copies of books I care about.)

        Let’s also bear in mind that one of the services things like NZBs provide is bringing content to places that censor ALL non-government information.
        News, Educational Programs, Courseware, etc etc.

        There are real issues here, and we need better solutions than either set of extremists is proposing.

        • Anon

          Isn’t “If it is not yours, don’t touch it” clear enough? It’s always been that way and governments will go to the ends of the earth to enforce this. Why?

          Because it’s reciprocal, and it’s time-tested fair. So if you think “tech and sneak” should dismantle fundamental bargaining you are in for a long uncomfortable ride into the digital future.

        • Fredrika

          > “Isn’t “If it is not yours, don’t touch it” clear enough?”

          It is, that’s why people don’t accept that the copyright monopoly intrudes into their property rights. The acceptance for legislative monopolies, such as the copyright monopoly, has always been very low for that exact reason.

          > “It’s always been that way and governments will go to the ends of the earth to enforce this.”

          You are aware of the fact that you are arguing against the copyright monopoly now, right?

          > “Why? Because it’s reciprocal, and it’s time-tested fair.”

          Property rights are generally considered fair yes, legislative monopolies however never are as in the case with the copyright monopoly, because legislative monopolies never intend to create fairness. You still haven’t read up on what legislative monopolies are and why society uses them?

          > “So if you think “tech and sneak” should dismantle fundamental bargaining..”

          Bargaining is in no way dependent on copyright. Legislative monopolies on the other hand does dismantle the possibility for bargaining, because it eliminates the competition.

          > “..you are in for a long uncomfortable ride into the digital future.”

          If you believe that any nation will continue to use imaginary property longer than 20 years into the future, you’re the one in for that ride. IP is according to all scientific evidence damaging to society and it’s economy, and it’s definitely in on it’s final stretch right now. For some reason you seem to want that the US should go under with it?

        • SomeYahoo

          “Isn’t “If it is not yours, don’t touch it” clear enough?”
          —-

          not for your copyführer-kin

          you see, this is MY copy of this song, it might be made by you but it’s MY copy of it

          dont touch it, dont look at it, dont try to charge me money for it, i didn’t touch YOUR copy of your song i made MY OWN via cut&paste so i could have one too, now keep your filthy MAFIAA hooves off it!

        • Anyone

          @Anon
          you got it the wrong way around
          copyright is interfering with MY property rights
          when I download something I am not doing anything with other people’s property

        • Techanon

          ‘Isn’t “If it is not yours, don’t touch it” clear enough? It’s always been that way and governments will go to the ends of the earth to enforce this. Why?’

          There are exeptions to that. Have you ever heard of the words “lend” and “borrow”?

  • RedHatcc

    I really loved that site… god I am going to miss it. Any alternatives that are somewhat close to what we are now missing?

  • Guest

    at some point…someone at FACT asked…”what is the Matrix?” and the doomsday clock started ticking….

    RIP Matrix

  • I came in your mom

    I have to stop and take a minute to laugh at you muppets that are bitching about loosing money on a site that was dedicated in bringing programs movies games, all of which you’re not paying for lol…. CLOWN SHOES…

    Just use binsearch or join a none paid version of an indexing site.

  • guest

    me too let me know if you do. I bought mine just last week.

  • http://twitter.com/Liger_88 Liger88

    Maybe people will remember the FIRST goddamn rule of Usenet.

    #1 The First rule about Usenet is — WE DONT TALK ABOUT USENET!

  • http://twitter.com/Liger_88 Liger88

    Maybe people will remember the FIRST goddamn rule of Usenet.

    #1 The First rule about Usenet is — WE DONT TALK ABOUT USENET!

    • trekop

      Pretty much but every site out there wants to write “NEWBIE GUIDEZ TO THE USENETZ”. Hopefully now that the majority won’t be able to just have their one-click downloads they’ll go back to torrents and the hype will die down.

      • None

        Lifehacker had big article on it and got hundreds of thousands of views. Way to call attention to it for profit.

    • KhalidX

      Exactly. I never rely on one site or one source.

  • Redsky5

    This is a total disaster!!!!!!! Just Why?
    Things have gone too far killings the Good things in Life. We all know the big industry and those behind the entertainment studios have killed it after-all the own the mouthpiece Obama,his cronies new policies.
    Another sad day for the Internet as a whole and a dent to free media

  • http://gear-mentation.myopenid.com/ Gear Mentation

    Re the first rule of Usenet. Seriously, what a flimsy shield. If you want Usenet, make Usenet functionality to be encrypted and decentralized. Otherwise, STFU.

    • Anyone

      exactly, you never should fear information

    • SomeYahoo

      totally agreed

      if you have to rely on forced obscurity and elitism to make it work, it’s a flawed workaround to a bigger problem

    • guest

      You don’t understand how usenet works.

  • kingguile

    nzbmatrix should of ask for 10.00$ a month and wen Wiggin LLC. These represent the following: Federation Against Copyright Theft Limited (“FACT”), Paramount Home Entertainment International Limited; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Limited; The Walt Disney Company Limited; Twentieth Century Fox Film Company Limited; Universal Pictures (UK) Limited; Warner Bros. Entertainment UK Limited. came showing there teeth at least nzbmatrix could bite back.

    hackers should target the big corporation an and teach them a lesson.

    • http://gear-mentation.myopenid.com/ Gear Mentation

      No, the MAFIAA should offer Nzbmatrix a deal: we buy you for 10 million, and then you are our centralized media distribution hub, for which people pay 10 dollars a month.

      • kingguile

        yep that is a good one but then you just make the mafiaa bigger

        • http://gear-mentation.myopenid.com/ Gear Mentation

          The MAFIAA isn’t the MAFIAA if it’s treating people decently. Of course, they still wouldn’t be paying the artists….

  • Justinalon Alon

    is there an alternative to nzb.

    • SomeYahoo

      that depends on what kind of files you’re looking for

      • zoo

        email SCIFI 3D . com

  • Jubei Yagyu

    fuck

    all sites are invite only atm

    …… FUCK

  • Dschnizzy

    Man what a crappy day, first I burn the pancakes, then I go on to the Matrix andIi get the worst news ever, the matrix taken down. What a sad day indeed. If any one has a heart and can get me an invite to one of the other sites (dont wnat to mention em, dont want to draw any more attention to the community), id be real happy.

  • Jwmc1971

    meh , matrix was starting to suck anyway . too many ” dont talk about fight club ” moments ruining the forums and comments sections . bunch of wankers anyway …

  • guest

    They banned me and were very cocky about it.

    Yes you remember me PeteC! I hope you never resurface scumbags. We were just about to hack your server so you saved us some man power!

    I hate the site and all the staff where were little hitlers. I hope you all get ASS raped in prision when you are caught. Cunts!

    • Me

      Shut the fuck up retard!

    • Dread

      I know many of you guys are young but I remember the days when the movie and tv industry didn’t even care about older material. A TV show was shown then shelved, same movies, they made the profits in the theaters.

      Now that the piracy has shown them that more money can be made they are trying to muscle out the DLs and force people to buy from them. I think we need better systems because with Obama in place and be holding to Hollywood this is only going to get a lot worst.

    • guest

      they banned you because you acted like an idiot?

    • Fffffffff

      You were banned because you were the biggest cock ever to grace that fine site.

      Remember when you trolled everyone about your non-existent ex leaving you?

      We all do.

      You couldn’t hack shit Coventry, go fuck off and die…

  • milkmania

    same here :(

  • OG Pirate

    Good, fucking whore site. Banned at least three times because some old whore didn’t like my comment. This is a great day. Usenet goes back underground and all the old parasite whores can fuck off and die. Piracy the way it used to be. Hardcore.

    • SomeYahoo

      “Piracy the way it used to be. Hardcore.”

      —-
      huh? it’s always been hardcore.

      i’ve never used usenet or a torrent program yet i’ve emassed so many songs and sound effects i just dont know what to do with them all, i should be on hoarders buried alive

      a good sound recorder/editor goes a long way, folks, audacity (which is free) will do just fine, and never forget that sometimes the best opportunities come from the most mundane sources (youtube is one example i’m sure everyones already aware of)

  • Akhenhotep

    I find it funny all these posts telling us to ban Hollywood, kill the actors and boycott their product. Listen up, if everyone boycotted the entertainment industry, there wouldn’t be one anymore. They are in it to make money. If they aren’t, they shut shit down. Should you choose to boycott, have at it. Some of us have been doing it for years now.

    I was one of the first 10 members to the site. A carry over from the Torrentmatrix days. I’ve enjoyed the site for six years and have made a lot of friends from it. Those of you from Newsbin really have to calm down, pull up your little pink panties and grow up. If 10 bucks is going to totally destroy your budget, perhaps you should have spent it on food rather than an internet site.

    Usenet will always be around as there is more to it than movies and music. All this does is get rid of the nOObs. The others, that aren’t afraid of doing an extra 3 minutes worth of work, will get along just fine. Still though, it really sucks to see it go. :(

    • Tooshort

      I have to agree with every word you said. I’m always up for a new challenge. Was a great site with great people. It is sad to see it go but its better in the long run.

      • jdot

        Correct. Those of us who have been around the scene obviously know of other ways to find the content. The site just made it simple.. Will miss it tho… :(

  • BenJeremy

    We need a new standard for “secure” private indexing sites. Binary clients should be able to get encryption keys in the NZB file. Uploaders would encrypt the text in the messages and also encrypt the subject lines.

    Secure indexers would require users to login with a digital signature (not unlike the API keys or logins currently used). When takedown notices arrive, determine which users accessed the keys for those files and isolate them, put them under greater automated scrutiny… even delaying search results to specific uploads (for example, the same TV series as the original takedown) or intentional bad hits.

    It’s a multi-level approach, but as you ferret out the spies, you can also determine what policies to follow for those that invited the spies in (restrict invites, etc…) and eventually, the system would be near impregnable to media companies.

    Just a thought… I’d throw together an example system, but I’m a bit busy with other projects. Get SBNZBD on board with such a system (to access the secure indexer for search results and to decrypt messages when assembling binaries) and it would certainly take off.

    • Random

      Interesting idea, and it might work if Usenet didn’t work as a large distributed system which is accessible as raw NNTP data and not just as NZBs served up from indexing sites. But it doesn’t, and there’s nothing restricting Hollywood from just running their own indexer and using that internally to determine what’s been posted (hence bypassing the signatures). Heck, for all we know they own the source code to NZBMatrix now, but it runs inside a Disney firewall and is only accessible for interns who spend their days looking up movies and serving takedown notices to AstraWeb and the like.

  • Markhubbard

    Well I’m well gutted I was a regular user of this site but I suppose it was only a matter if time before this started to happen

  • zed

    NZBMatrix was a hangout of the absolute worst dregs of society. Racist, bigoted, right-wing fucktards all – & the admin, Flash, (due to handing off all responsibility for the running of the site to a bunch of morons) just let it all happen. Although it’s sad to see another NZB site bite the bullet, personally I couldn’t be happier these twots got exactly what they deserved. It’s the paying customers (of which I was one) I feel sorry for.

    PS Hey, doggo, I told you I’d burn your shit to the ground. Enjoy the dole queue, you asshole.

    z =]

    • Maverick

      Zed I’m thinking is Zarathustra and for him to call anyone a moron is a huge case of the pot calling the kettle black. You are certainly the biggest of dregs you dickhead.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mick-Dundee/100002236735201 Mick Dundee

      um the left wing fxktrd and obama are the ones that are shutting everything down, get a clu leftwing fucktard!

  • Rat

    Shame. Another good site closed, just as I had given up with raw searches and concentrated on indexing sites!!

    Back to trawling through passworded shite and virus ridden crap to get the odd file

    • Daedkcih

      Not true.
      Any experienced U**N** user has favorite Posters. Maybe the first rule shoud be “Don’t talk about Posters”.

  • KhalidX

    Still getting everything I want. Cant believe all this crying over 1 site. Adapt and keep it moving. Scene is strong and alive.

  • Guest w/ mustard

    FUCK YOU YOU FUCKING MAFIAA SCUM GO RAPE YOUR GRANMOTHERS GAPE HOLES AND LET US ADVENTURIOUS PEOPLE DOWNLOAD IN PEACE, WHY DON’T YOU SLIT YOUR THROUTS BECAUSE THATS ALL YOUR GOOD FOR YOU FUCKING GAY INFECTED COCKSUCKING RICH BORES WITH THE 1INCH PRICKS. YOU FUCKING GO DIE NOW U FUCK FUCK FUCKERS.

    • Bob

      what a tool

  • ThumbsUpThumbsDown

    So, imagine that the newsgroup service you’ve been running for ages gets its “too many DMCA notices to handle” moment; and, your leadership decides to shut down.

    Doesn’t it make sense that if your technology leading competitive edge is, say, your user interface or your indexing engine, you’d have easy enough access for transfer to your strongest competitors; perhaps one whose strength is a very efficient automated processor of take down notices?

    This matters because this is the process that improves the market, even as the least efficient competitors fail. Six months later, a new site is all the rage: Its UI sets a new world standard for ease of use; its indexing engine has never been known NOT to find a missing part; and, guess what?……… Its automated take down processor can handle ten years worth of take down notices in twenty minutes.

    I say all this, because I worry that the worlds best newsgroup technology is NOT being efficiently transferred from the weakest to the strongest competitors.

    We can lament each site that throws in the towel; but, let’s not forget to keep our eye on what’s happening to the technology

  • Petnzme

    Thanks NZBMATRIX..you will be missed.

  • guest

    MAAFIA is winning. I’m getting sick and tired of these Pollyannish statements “oh we can use proxies” and “oh Napster was gone but many more came back.”

    In fact, MAAFIA is conducting an all-front war, and with precious few exceptions the law is on their side. The most dangerous front is them convincing IPs and entire countries to ban websites. If every country bans Pirate Bay, then a proxy won’t work, will it?

    I don’t see anyone coming up with new sites to replace the casualties of this war. This is NOT like the Napster era.

    I fear the worst. That’s why for the last 2 years I’ve been attempting to download the entire internet, while I still can.

    Finally, until actual governments and courts stop playing ball with the MAAFIA, the end is near, at least for the present form of sharing files.

    • Anyone

      ask yourself this: has it become easier or harder to get content?

      it’s easier and faster now than ever before, despite the small “victories” the MAFIAA lands
      on the political stage the pirate parties are represented in some parliaments by now and can correct the corrupt laws that way

    • Guest

      Winning?
      Of course they are

      *goes back to DL along with a bunch of bazzilions others*

    • Dude

      Pirate Bay, then a proxy won’t work, will it?

      of course a unblocked proxy will work

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=608525922 Ronald MacDonald

    Has anyone tried the following: http://zevera.com/USDefault2.aspx

  • FUCK

    This fucking sucks, I’ve gotten close to two thousand NZBs from that site. I’m gonna miss the community the most though. Going to miss all the comments flooding about how excited they are that an NZB was uploaded, and the general feeling of the site. This has put a damper on my day to be honest.

    • Nate

      +1 on that.

  • Foilleuse10

    Unfortunately I fear the same fate for other similiar sites. Nzbsrus being the closure I fear the most.

  • http://twitter.com/BabaYZFR1 Babazfr1

    rip nzb,newsb.not the end of the world but just waiting for them to label all as enemies of the state,another war is needed looser is looking for victory in the virtual space

  • Special Spastic

    Er, you do know the best way to peruse Usenet is with headers right? Not this .nzb shit. And headers are unstoppable, they are a part of Usenet.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_Q4RKHYTTIVLA7CNF7ABHPJAR5E A V

    Only when we all get together and call for a world-wide boycott against the Industry maybe will be successful … we have to start spreading the words around..let’s talk to our families, friends, neighbors, to anyone…then things going to start changing…but is in us to make the changes or just wait for these people to take completely control of the internet…the time is now …

  • Sciros

    The Internet evolves.

    There are plenty of other usenet indexers, we forgot newzbin quickly enough. Anyone who didn’t have a backup ready – nzbs.org, or nzb.su are obvious N00bs and deserve to wait.
    I happy the matrix ran as long as it did. For $10, I must have had 1000x value.
    The Matrix is up there with Oink, I might even write a Wiki

    • KhalidX

      Exactly. Have a back up

      • Brynden

        My backup was nzbsrus, that worked out

  • PiRat

    We are heading towards anonymous torrent, we all knew Usenet was going to get fudged sooner or later.

  • Wickedsin

    i would love an invite please wickedsin@gmail.com

    • Dude

      assuming people having invites leads to spam lolol

  • BIGDON

    Well that is a bummer. I been using that site for years,now what do I do? :(

  • KhalidX

    The private indexing sites are NOT going to open for invitations. They do not want the NZBMatrix refugees .

    • ThumbsUpThumbsDown

      Is this good, bad; and, for whom?

    • http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell

      KhalidX, I am not sure about that in the slightest. People like you ALWAYS say that the private indexing sites are not going to open for invitations and every single time when something like this happens? They end up opening for a short period.

    • Nuro

      Many did open for a short period. Why? Because they knew they could make a shit load of money. One private indexing site probably got at least 500-1000 new members from NZB Matrix, all willing to upgrade to VIP status in order to avoid getting kicked out of the site.

  • iMeZiV0x

    Hey MAFIAA. Thanks for making my life easier, knowing that you can no longer spy on private sites. Thanks for bringing sharing underground again. Thanks for doing all of this without paying the artists you “represent” a damn thing or asking for their permission. Guess what, I can make my fame and glory without paying for taxes and fees.

  • Goosmoo

    I think the music and movie industries would be happiest if we’d just cut to the chase and shut down the Internet, period.

  • frozar

    The actions against Usenet go deeper. It’s always been a hub for getting porn and I am surprised it’s taken this long. Usenet is essentially a multi-hub cyberlocker.

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  • Foff

    Apparently the Usenet community is more centralized then i thought. The I thought it was originally was that once a file was in the system it was impossible to take down because it was instantly scattered to many servers all over the world. I guess these nzb files which act as pointers once deleted make it impossible to find the content. I never really go into this system but at one point everything originated from this system as it was seen as more secure. It seems the mafiaa have broken the back of this system. I hate to see this because once they feel they have won they will double down on other areas.

    I think ultimately we really need a completely decentralized system. We also need a new money system. One that cannot be compromised by the mafiaa. If the rich can secretly transfer money undetected all over the world why can’t we set up system to do the same for small payments? Anyway I have confidence while the mafiaa celebrates a something better will arise from the ashes.

    • http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell

      No, they don’t make it impossible to find the content in the slightest, they just make it more CONVENIENT to find the content.

    • Pirate515

      I do agree about the money collection system 100%. IMO, one of the reasons why both NZBMatrix and NewzBin2 went down is because they need money to operate and with multiple governments forcing online payment services to stop doing business with sites like these, they have no means to collect money despite the fact that there are millions of people willing to pay them. If some enterprising minds can figure out a way to transfer money to them without governments being able to stick their noses in the middle of the process, sites like that could be easily back in business.

  • MgolferMatrixUSER

    It seems almost everything added to Usenet today is broken. WOW that was a quick downfall!

    • Dean29999

      Dont follow you at all with this comment, Seems business as usual to me. Care to explain?

      • MgolferMatrixUSER

        using raw search, everything has parts missing. I was online when “the usual sunday night shows” were uploaded.. .take one for example… it has 1983 parts… I refreshed every few minutes and it never got completed past 1788/1983. It’s still at that same point 9 hours later. When I browse through using a wide search key, it seems everything that was uploaded yesterday is missing parts.. too many to be repaired. Are you not seeing this? I’m talking about everything that’s usually popular… tv shows&movies. I don’t pay attention to music&games.

  • CW

    Its easy to get what u want today no matter how many sites goes down.
    If everything else fails,we can go back to the C-64 days,sending stuff with snail mail :)

    But if anyone have a invitation plz send one to me..I know how to act and behave with over 20 years experience.Its the forum and the ppl im gonna miss,not the nzb:s..

    plzsend@mailinator.com

  • Dean29999

    I used the matrix for 2 years and liked their indexing and it was well worth the 1 time $10 fee.

    The fact is that the Usenet has become too easy with the NZB files being indexed, easy to find via a search, RAR files auomated extracted and repaired with QuickPa

    As someone who has used the Usenet for 20 + years. I can truly say that it does not resemble what it used to be.

    I am not going to look for any other NZB sites. These are bad fro the Usenet and will lead to the all Usenet provoders being shut down.

    The savvy ones will use other utilities to find their content and easily be able to download what they are looking for just as fast as with an NZB Site.

    I am sorry to see the site go down as their were some good people there but it is probably for the best when you look at the big picture.

    Dean

  • Anonnymouse

    watch out for annon !

    • Free Me Or Kill Me

      Yea, its an AGENT SMITH, watch out for annon!

      Something told my dumbazz to download the WHOLE NET, use my spare pc just to download the .nzb’s (not the content) incase this happens.

      NZBMATRIX, what you guys should do is leave up the forums, that is the least that you can do.

      Another thought that came to mind, is if they can force the shutdown of sites like the matrix, all though they are only INDEXING, then whats stopping them from shutting down GOOGLE, BING, YAHOO, and the likes? Are they not just pointing you to everything, including indexing sites?

      NZBMATRIX, what you guys should do is just disable all links, so the NOOOBS can still see what new shit is out. I’ve been lookin for a great html editor, and found one thru the matrix, because of the live feedback. Or will the MAAFIA force you guys even MENTIONING any and everything as well?

      The problem is greater than just rights, laws, and all this bullshit, the problem lies inside of money. Instead of a new money system that cant be compromised, instead, ALL MONEY SHOULD BE ABOLISHED AND DESTROYED. What this will cause is for people to do things out of the goodness of their hearts (sharing is caring) and also eliminate greed, and damn near every other fucked up problem that exist with man.

  • Bob

    Yup me too, but that’s the risk you take. I am sure you got more than your $10 worth

  • ANONOMOUS

    FUCK YOU RIAA/MPAA FUCK YOU. WE ARE ANNONOMOUS WE DO NOT FORGIVE WE DO NOT FORGET, EXPECT US!

  • http://www.rusiczki.net/ János

    I had 1 year of VIP. Well worth the price.

  • Callum19901

    damn i really miss nzbmatrix i used this fucker every day. back too tpb? they release their shit way too slow…

  • Kevindd992002

    Which NZB indexing site is the best now? Having NZBMatrix down makes me very sad.

  • cuipui
  • Whatsnext

    Whats the best alternative to nzbmatrix?

  • Joechip

    They put up a wall.

    We get around it.

    Long live binsearch.

  • zak frelan

    try nzbclub thats what i use now

  • Joechip

    btw, to all those fuckwits who are whinging about ten bucks. Get a life.

  • Quentin Torrentino

    i dont think nzbmatrix is closed down — i think what they have done is made a new url (eg, nzbmatrixreturns) and given it to the regs and people they can trust .

    shutting down keeps DMCA off thier case forever

    trust me they are not gone

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  • mike

    Amazing how many rationalizations can be made for theft. If it aint yours, dont take it. If ya want it, pay for it. If it costs too much, dont buy it. If no one can afford it, it will either come down in price or the company will go out of business. Supply and demand cant work when theft is part of the equation.

    • Fredrika

      > “Amazing how many rationalizations can be made for theft.”

      No one is doing that.

      > “If it aint yours, dont take it.”

      People filesharing are not taking anything, they are manufacturing. Manufacturing isn’t taking, now is it?

      > “If ya want it, pay for it.”

      If you don’t buy it, there’s nothing to pay for, now is there?

      > “If it costs too much, dont buy it.”

      Which is what the pirates are doing.

      > “If no one can afford it, it will either come down in price or the company will go out of business. Supply and demand cant work when theft is part of the equation.”

      The concept of supply and demand does not apply when the seller holds a legislative monopoly that forbids competition. Maybe you need to take an economics class and read up on the fundamental basics about the difference between the free market, where supply and demand applies, and regulated markets that are controlled by legislative monopolies.

      As it is now, you just come of as ignorant, not just because you seem to confused the penal crime of theft with the civil offence of an infringement into a legislative monopoly.

      • mike

        so if you share something of mine, without my permission you arent stealing?? thats a rationalization at its simplest level.

        • Fredrika

          > “so if you share something of mine, without my permission you arent stealing??”

          Stealing is the permanent appropriation of property, so that the owner no longer has that piece of unique property in his possession.

          Sharing as in copyright infringements, as in transferring information to people, information that describes the physical patterns of one’s physical property, is not stealing, neither according to law, proper use of language, logics or physics.

          If you seriously believe otherwise maybe you should read up a bit on the fundamental basics regarding the difference between property laws and legislative monopolies.

          > “..thats a rationalization at its simplest level.”

          It’s factual.

        • mike

          You can call it whatever you like, but you are still taking it,…yes?? It is not being given to you,..correct?

        • Fredrika

          > “You can call it whatever you like..”

          I’m not calling it whatever i like, i’m the one using correct terminology that’s firmly rooted in both law and dictionaries. You’re the one who’s not, but instead calling it whatever you like, to try to project a negative value on the act without actually arguing for why it’s negative in the first place. That’s extremely dishonest behaviour by you, and it’s logical fallacy.

          > “..but you are still taking it,…yes??”

          Nope, when you take something, something that previously existed goes missing. That’s not what happens when you fileshare and manufacture copies with your computer.

          > “It is not being given to you,..correct?”

          Incorrect. The uploader is freely giving the information that describes the physical patterns of his property to anyone who wants it.

        • Free Me Or Kill Me

          Yes, it will be stealing without your permission. But what you fail to realize is that once I buy something from you then it is MINES, and I dont NEED your PERMISSION to SHARE whatever it is that I brought from you, because it is no longer YOURS, it is MINES now.

          Whats so fucking hard to understand about that?

        • mike

          Did you pay to use it or did you pay for all rights? Are you sharing with your family, or are you sharing with millions of strangers you never met? Lastly can you have a civil discussion, or is that not in your capacity?
          Michael Glenn

          http://www.glennimagesonline.com

          Sent from my iphone.

      • Skrell

        Fredrika, you are the only one is this group of morons with any education or rational thought(I read all of your posts!), i’d love to chat some time with you. My AIM name is vmbona3 so plz feel free to drop me a line.

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  • Curious_Aint_It

    Is anyone standing back and looking at “the big picture” and what’s happening?

    Question – How do you eat an elephant?
    Answer – ONE bite at a time.

    This is just one more bite of the elephant. I watch all you keyboard warriors b*tch and complain about these “bites” and have yet to seen you band together to fight it.

    This enemy that you complain about is a multibillion dollar monster that is relentless in their goal. Their war coffers are filled to overflowing and you just sit by and complain. I saw a post by someone that simply said… “I have already donated to support your cause.”

    That’s all well and good but that donation is long gone and the enemy is STILL flush with cash. This loss was one in which the enemy simply wore them (NZBMatrix) down. Where were you and what did you do to help them?

    The enemy is relentless on more than just this front. They’re like rabid pit bulls in their quest for total control. What will it take to get you out of your chair and really start doing something that helps fight this? Quit your p*ssing and moaning and do something…

    • Yusuf

      For every automated unlawful take down the World Freedom Army need to take a head of a member of any MAFIA criminal organization.
      I mean a _head_. Literally. They must realize that billions and corrupt FBI and bent judges are nothing against Femida. behind all this criminally obtaine dmoney they have forgotten that they are not invincible. They have forgotten that they are mortal piece of shit. Time has come to remind them

  • Quentin Torrentino

    curious , you want to band together an elite team to legally fight for your right to have something that is copyright protected, you want it for free and sometimes as soon as they have released it.

    good luck with that … lol

    • Curious_Aint_It

      This comment shows just how short sighted you are. This is just one front they’re fighting on. They’re also attacking the “first sale” doctrine which could affect a person’s rights to sell their legally purchased merchandise.

      They’re also attacking the library system and trying to prevent them from “lending” books, DVDs, etc.

      My point was this is just ONE front they’re attacking and each “win” is just one more step toward totalitarian control. People like you won’t do anything until it affects you personally and it will. By that time you’ll be standing around with your dick in your hand wondering “How did this happen?”

      Each “bite” erodes our choices… It has nothing to do with the pablum you spew.

      • Quentin Torrentino

        come on , you 10 years old or something ? your logic is full of holes.

        Lets say for example you are genuine in your intention to create a personal libray — why do you want to share it with the whole world via usenet?

        If you want to sell your merchandise , dvds etc — why you giving it away on usenet , if you are lending dvds etc to a mate — why are you giving it away on usenet?

        only situation where some sympathy lies is the unlucky people in parts of the world that do not have access to content even legally.

        • Guest

          You’re evidently hiding your head in the sand and not watching events unfold in the world.

  • Layinwayback

    All this bickering is kinda fun, but how about some valuable information? Anyone know of good alternatives to NZBMatrix?

  • Matixlovesitbeyonder

    Boooooooom and its gone

  • Thom

    What am I supposed to do now!?!? :(

    Some dickhead wrote that. I am glad that the above site mentioned is gone, Using Newsgroups for some 16 years and I am happiest ploughing through Headers/Articles the old way.

    The end is nigh though (that is for binaries within it)

  • acmedata

    disclaimer: I used to run GoNZB.com indexer until 2008 till I took an arrow….. nvm.. you know. I learned where to go because I was already paying for it and I think you-know-who does not know about those interfaces. Just index locally.

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  • Mev007

    forums are open again but not indexing matrixdotnuxdotsx

    • Drfeelstrange

      mev, can you tell me how to log onto the forums???
      I hope almost everyone is still there. Much Mahalo
      drfeelstrange

      • guest

        Last time i checked the new forums, everything started out fresh. If anything has changed i have no idea.

  • Guest

    If many of the people who spend so much time and energy posting angry tirades on the internet actually doing something useful they could probably pay for the stuff they pirate.

    Hell, how much of the stuff we pirate is actually worth our time? How much of the garbage out there are we wasting our time (our lives literally) with that we wouldn’t if we couldn’t just download it online for free?

  • Jam

    @dsfg you call bullshit? I call bullshit on you you dumb fuck. I used to help Fat Fuck Frank run his torrent site and we got a warning from Paypal over the use of the account.

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  • fish sauce

    For crying out loud, use bitcoins you morons !

  • Free Me Or Kill Me

    1: I BUY a shirt. Loan it to my friends. Am I stealing because I shared MY SHIRT with my friends? Or are they stealing because they are in possession of a shirt which they didnt pay for?

    2) I buy a house, car and some gas to put in it. I let my girlfriend spend nights, and drive my car. Is my girlfriend stealing a part of my house, my car, and the gas since she didnt pay for anything?

    3) I buy a game, cd, software. I make a COPY of MY COPY, and give it to my friends. Are we/they stealing?

    4) I pay to see the next big movie, I use MY PHONE to record the movie that I PAYED for. Share it with my friends. Are we/they stealing?

    If anyone answered yes to any of these question, then FUCK U, and u should occupy another planet with other dumb fucks who share the same dumb ass view as you.

    PAY ATTENTION YOU RETARDS. If I BUY something from you, it is NO LONGER YOURS, it is MINES, and I can do whatever I wish with MY PROPERTY, such as sharing it with 10 million other fucking people if I want to. Dumb asses!!!

    • mike

      does the shirt, car, house, have any labels warning users not to distribute? Can you conceivably hurt the Shirt maker, House builder, Car maker, by sharing those items with millions of people?
      Does the game, CD, software have any label saying free to widely distribute? Does it say the opposite?
      Does the movie house ticket have any warnings not to record, distribute? Did you read them yet do it anyway?
      At the end of the day the item has value to you, thats why you took steps to take it, but the maker gets nothing from your use. The major players have teams of lawyers, but the little creators are simply screwed. They cant even afford the beginning steps to get folks to pay for their creations.
      It used to be, your stuff sucks, so no one buys it. Now its your stuffs great, but no one pays for it.
      You can curse til ya turn blue, but it does little to make your argument, unless of course you are getting the coffee for free, then it explains alot.

      • Free Me Or Kill Me

        Mike, how nice of you and welcome back buddy.
        “does the shirt, car, house, have any labels warning users not to distribute?”
        Excellent question, so I will double check to see if the greedy fucks did/didnt put such bullshit in/on those items. (5mins later) After checking NO, they have not. But I did check my lease, and my lease says my home is to NOT be used for COMMERCIAL PURPOSES

        I answered your questions, now answer mines. Is it NOT THEIR LABELS? Basically they can write whatever bullshit they see fit on THEIR labels and I wouldnt dare stop them from writing such (I will attempt to censor myself since you have sensitive ears) clever “WORDS OF ART” on such items because that would be me infringing upon their rights to FREEDOM of EXPRESSION. When I get it, their LABEL becomes my LABEL, so Im FREE to remove it, scratch thru it, hell, even mail it back to them, ect.

        Seriously though, do you think your/their “WORDS OF ART” on such labels bear any REAL meaning? According to your logic, if they wrote such meaningless “words of art” on EVERYTHING, including food, then by definition, the planet would be full of criminals. Because my daughter cant buy food, so she would be a THIEF, and would have penalties, fines, jail time waiting on her soon as she can speak good enough to say “yes” and nods that she understand the charges against her at trial, right? Answer that please!

        Speaking of such labels, if they have the power/right to write such meaningless “words” on certain items, then what is stopping them from writing such meaningless “words” on ALL ITEMS? I really would like to know this.
        Suppose they write this “CRAP” ON EVERYTHING.
        Ex: At the gas pumps

        “ALL PERSONS ARE PROHIBITED FROM SHARING, DISTRIBUTING, ALLOWING THE USE OF THE GAS THAT THE PERSON PURCHASE TO ANOTHER PERSON. ALL PERSONS WILL BE FINED AND JAILED, AND CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD WHICH IS A FEDERAL FELONY….AND ALL PERSONS THAT COMMIT SUCH ACT VOLUNTARILY, INTELLIGENTLY, KNOWINGLY WAIVE THE RIGHT TO AN ATTORNEY & FAIR TRIAL/HEARING.”

        According to your flawed logic (I almost cursed again, flawed was about to be the F-BOMB) since its their gas, they have the right to apply such labels at the pump, which would land me, my wife, and daughter in prison with some outrageous fine because I paid for gas and let my wife take my daughter to her school? Right? Did I miss something? Or……………… we could be great SLAVES and comply with the GREED, and have our own separate cars, and we would have to each fill our tanks up half way, then use our daughter debit card to purchase gas on her behalf and fill up the rest of the tank so we do not infringe upon the RIGHTS of the gas company and get indicted on federal offenses? (Oh uh, just gave the greedy a brilliant idea, for FREE of course!)

        But wait, even that is flawed. How would our daughter even have money if she didnt work for it? Because such “words of art” would be applied on money too, and debit cards! (Yet another brilliant idea, FOR FREE AGAIN)

        Moving on……”Does the game, CD, software have any label saying free to widely distribute?” See the above response. But to be fair and answer your question, those words on such labels can be construed to have such effect BEFORE purchase! If I gave away a game or cd without paying for it, then yes, that is stealing and I wouldnt have such rights. After I purchase the game or cd, then my rights are unlimited, oh, have you forgot that POSSESSION is 9/10 of the law? (can only imagine your reply to this truth.

        you: well just because you buy it and its in your possession it is still theirs, because of that label, lol, yeah right)

        “It used to be, your stuff sucks, so no one buys it. Now its your stuffs great, but no one pays for it.”
        So what is it now? Its their stuff until it sells, then its mines? Or its still their stuff after the sale? Which is it? It cant be both Mike? Or is that a possibility too Mike?

        Oh wait, another horrible thought I just had. If its still their stuff after the sale, then I just dont have any rights, and what I thought is mines is just an illusion. Could you help us all out Mike? By telling them to just cut to the chase and stop playing these mind games. Why not put a label on it which states “THIS ITEM WILL NEVER BE YOURS, BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT EVEN YOURS, YOU BELONG TO US, LIKE THIS PRODUCT THAT YOU ARE READING THIS FROM”

        Here, could you be so kind to SUBMIT this label to them for me.

        LAWFUL NOTICE TO ALL:
        Hi, this is a LAWFUL NOTICE, and its purpose is to establish a non-revocable agreement until the universe collapse. I am a FREE MAN. Due to this fact, I as a Free Man have RIGHTS, and those rights are unlimited as long as I do not harm/injure or intrude upon another Free Man/Woman/Child.

        When we (you and I) engage in commerce, and a transaction occurs, you transfer the goods/service or what ever it may be, AND your unlimited rights to me at the time of the transaction, regardless of your “joke” (funny words of art at anywhere). If you do not agree to that, then you should get the fuck out of the fucking market place, and keep whatever the fuck it is that you are selling.

        To be fair (unlike you fucks), this agreement can be terminated if, and only if these REQUIREMENTS are met in full:

        1) U supply undeniable PROOF that I am not FREE and a FREE MAN
        (proof is not some retarded as allegation, proof is PROOF)

        2) PROOF that you are my GOD,

        3) A Bill of Sale, Title, and every other lawful document, video, audio, and EVERYTHING else (it can be some other fuck turd “LABEL”) that reveals who’s possession I was in, and who is my new MASTER

        4) A meet & greet with my MASTER which will satisfy me to the extent that I accept involuntary servitude.

        5) Failure to provide all of the following by Jan. 1, 2013, is your eternal voluntary signature to this agreement, and you waive whatever imaginary rights you think/claim that you have over me and all other free humans, past, present, future. Breach of this contract, which implies you are attempting to enslave us will result in WAR. Unlike you, we will not be holding any of you for hostage or prisoners!

        Where the fuck is Hitler and Stalin when you need them, they targeted the wrong group of people.

        Last but not least “You can curse til ya turn blue, but it does little to make your argument, unless of course you are getting the coffee for free, then it explains alot.”

        Why do you keep saying “FREE”? If I paid for it, it is no longer FREE. Unless you and your kind think it is, even then, it doesnt make it so. I never said about getting something for free. My scenario were based upon me purchasing something and me being FREE to do what I want with it because it is MINES, and that included giving it away for FREE! Please readjust your interpretation because its incorrect, and then readdress my point of view, and be sure to answer ALL of these questions, Mike

        • mike

          Whoa, it would take a week to reply to a rambling diatribe such as that.
          You can say the world is flat, it is round

          YOU CAN SCREAM THE WORLD IS FLAT
          YOU CAN EFFIN CURSE THAT THE EFFIN WORLD IS EFFIN FLAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!,…………….. it is still round, no matter how flustered you get. worse is, if you are right, no one cares to listen. They just tune you out.

          No one said a crime was committed. A ya gotta get to at least a misdemeanor to do that. But ya are breaking the law, a civil law, but a law nonetheless. Ya build a fence on your neighbor yard, ya dont get arrested, but the neighbor hauls ya down to small claims court. not a federal offense, not even criminal, but ya broke the law,…pretty simple concept. You may hate the law, think its a dumb law, but if ya break it you are exposing yourself to consequences

          Your answers are confusing, I dont know if they are intended to be, but they are.

          There is so much legitimately free stuff too. Itunes has a weekly or monthly free song for example, and a plethora of other stuff where you can get actual honest to God free stuff. Creative Commons and the like are another example. Those transactions are free, but you still agree to something, like gettin dragged to the itunes store to get your free download. there is a give and take, not just a take.

          I guess I have to ask,…if you made the rules, would anyone ever get paid at all? Or would they be told no, just keep producing works, Oh,..it costs money to make that stuff,…oh well, make it anyway. I dont care if it took you 4 months and 50grand to make that record, I want it for free. So what if you cant make another one cause you have no more cash, I got mines, so I am gooood.

          If I have a whole twinkie, and share half, I dont get to eat a full twinkie.
          When you “share” your shirt, your gas, your car, something magic happens, you cannot use it yourself.

          Good thing you will run out of gas, your shirt will rip, wear out, or you will either gain weight or lose weight, so you will need another shirt. Otherwise the rest of us would have no gas suppliers, and no shirt makers to go and get ours from, since there is yet to be a technology to allow you to graciously share yours, with me, at the same exact time, in different time zones.

          If you enter into an agreement to license something (what you are doing when you buy created works) then you have to violate the agreement, i.e. go back on your word. You could have voted with your wallet, and not buy it, or never go again, and tell all your friends. But you decided that you would either take it without buying it, (music download) , or take more than you paid for (lifetime use of a 12 dollar movie ticket)
          Then they spend more money to defeat the illegal use, that costs gets billed to the consumer, and the circle continues.

          Even the good companies,…there are a couple of those right? They have to make more than they spend. (kinda hard to pay employee salaries without cold hard cash) They are in business to stay in business, not go bankrupt. How do you propose they do that. Maybe you can share some virtual cash with them.

          Thats why we have terms and conditions in the first place, too many people were told trust me, and got screwed.

          The good thing is, to me this is a discussion, no huge deal. But to you it seems as if I stuck a pencil in your eye, I mean sheesh take a pill LOL
          No I dont expect you to answer all of the questions, or respond to all the points. I do hope you bring some real points to the discussion however, I get bored easily.

        • Free Man

          For some weird reason, I can not reply to you specifically after your last post, all I can do is reply to myself, maybe thats my hint to dont bother.

          Can you answer my questions though? It wont cost you a dime!

          “No one said a crime was committed”
          Yes you have, you implied it was theft for me/us to pay for something, and then give away that which I/we payed for, for free! Which is why we are discussing this.

          “But ya are breaking the law”
          This is what I see. A small group of idiots basically have found a way to criminalize everything we do. Converting the entire nation into criminals for not abiding by their rules. Something is wrong with the system, and you fail to realize that.

          “Your answers are confusing”
          How? Im not as educated as the 1st person you were going back and forth with, Fredrika or the like, my answers are very elementary. Maybe because they contain common sense and truth is why you are confused? Im jus saying…

          “but you still agree to something”
          Lol, this is funny. What appears to be an agreement really isnt. It isnt like they include an option/check box where we can say “No, I dont agree to your comical nonsense, but sell me this anyway”

          Ex: By purchasing this cd, you are agreeing that you, and your soul belong to us and our record label.
          Q: Will that stop me from buying the cd? No! Is there a checkbox on itunes that allows me to express that Im only interested in the exchange of cash for cd only, without the “my soul belong to them for a cd”? No! Its exactly what you said, I can scream the world is flat…..so can they! You dont understand my simple logic yet?

          “there is yet to be a technology to allow you to graciously share yours, with me, at the same exact time, in different time zones.”
          There is, its called filesharing, and internet! My CD I paid for was in physical form, something solid and real. I converted it to another medium and made it digital. I then transferred that medium to all of my friends, and they converted it back into physical form.

          “But you decided that you would either take it without buying it, (music download)”
          There you go again, implying theft, which you still keep missing the whole subject. Im talking about apples, you are talking about oranges. Lets stop talking about oranges and talk about apples. Translation: You are talking about theft, me taking something without buying it. Thats not what Im talking about. Im talking about me buying something and then freely distributing it. Still dont follow? Remove theft from your thinking process, and input this information. I bought it.

          “Maybe you can share some virtual cash with them”
          Lol, isnt 97% of the currency digital/virtual? Those green piece of worthless paper in your wallet (money) only makes up 3% of the currency. The rest is just digital/virtual numbers on servers. Do you even know how they make it? They make it out of thin air. Did you know that too?

          Ex: (real story) About 3 years ago, this person only had about less than $100 bucks in their acct. One day, he went to the atm machine to get a quick 20, and the atm told him that his balance was $8, 888, 888, xxx.xx
          Yes, $8 billion, well, close to $9 billion. He contacted the bank, and they apologized and found that it was a “typo” from their employee. They then punched a few numbers, and his acct went back to less than $100. I suppose this is confusing you to. So, in simple terms, a few key strokes made him an instant billionaire, lol. Granted, it was an error, but nonetheless, he still was a billionaire.

          “Thats why we have terms and conditions in the first place, too many people were told trust me, and got screwed”
          Why? Greed!

          “The good thing is, to me this is a discussion, no huge deal. But to you it seems as if I stuck a pencil in your eye, I mean sheesh take a pill LOL ”
          Actually what you and your kind is attempting to do is far worse. You are trying to dictate what I can and cant do with MY property after I buy it.
          Take a pill? Still attempting to dictate what I must do, now its with my own body, smh! How about you and your kind take another look in the dictionary and read up on the word “my, mines” and “you and yours” and you will see the two have nothing to do with each other. Then read up on rights!

          “No I dont expect you to answer all of the questions”
          Why? Because I was fair and responded to your points the 1st time around, and you ignored my points? I will address the other questions you posted if you can reply to both sets of responses from me. But how can we communicate effectively if you cant even start off by being fair? GREED!

  • Dfdrtrefd

    it’s the end of the world. dec 23

  • Sbnsjunk

    I understand Paypal had a lot to do with the demise of NZBmatrix (amongst others). I intend to tell everyone I know to not use them and to only use their services as a last result. PayPal is not my moral compass. I did not give them that privilege. How far are they willing to take those morals? Isn’t emailing each other copyrighted songs, scanned in school photos of your children, etc. against those very same principals as well? Shall they hold the internet itself responsible? Take the whole thing down? Stop taking payments from the masses because we are all guilty. If they needed the money to feed themselves they would change course.

  • Killuminati

    No matter how you try Usenet never die. it just retaliate with hate then they multiply

  • jasman

    [quote]Schvedka 2 days ago in reply to Guest

    Oh please Amerika…. ROFL “Thank you” for letting me know that “it’s not called the Soviet Union anymore”. I always wondered what was happening in my neighbouring country, who would have known…. ? ;-)

    I pointed out about the .su domain, clever clogs!!!

    Get it? It is rather smart to be using a domain that has very unclear mangement because it cannot be ceased easily by the USA or one of its puppets. [/quote]

    yet nzb.su is down. it’s not seized but it’s down.

    .su domains can be seized like all other domains have been seized.

  • Zombie

    I’ve also started nzbzombie.com , looking for mods, enabled a few groups, etc. Registrations will remain open and the site will be under development.

  • Itonic

    guys, thought id whip together a community indexer site running using newznab.
    I have decided to do registration in stages of 100 users and see how it goes.
    Its currently backfilling at the moment so theres not a great deal indexed yet but hopefully its just a matter of time. i aiming for 420 usenet sites with 350 days retention (havent got a clue how much GB that will take so a bit trial and error at the moment or whether my server is man enough)

    http://scriptured.co.uk

    Let me know your thoughts!

    • Free Me Or Kill Me

      Thank you kind being. Count me in

    • Dude

      invite only?

      • Dude

        disregard last comment

  • I-am-N-Idiot

    F@rk, I had accounts in both newzbin and nzbmatrix. Wasted my money, damn it. I just wish for once somebody actually pay some assassins to off heads of riaa/mpaa

  • I-am-N-Idiot

    ANY advise where F**K should I go next that hopefully don’t die like a little coward?

  • thelogicalsong

    new newsgroup alt.nzbmatrix

    newsgroup alt.nzbmatrix charter

    In honor of the indexing site nzbmatrix,
    existing members and new ones will be carrying on reviews
    and posting of nzbs in this newsgroup.

    i believe all site archives have been backed up by thrid parties

    and will be flooded in said group. so its now free…good.

  • tylerdurden

    Freedom loving internet users are ready to strike a blow back at the recording industry the likes of which the world has never seen.
    Micro engraving tools, indelible markers, acrylic and polymer adhesives,
    and portable drills will require that retail outlets become armed camps in order to turn the slightest profit.

  • Tony W

    This is so sad. I donated via Paypal awhile back as it’s a great site. What I don’t get is it’s metadata? it’s like a drug dealer (USENET) and then a guy saying USENET has some proper strong binz going about. They point the gun at him. I dunno how much control they have over alt.binz* stuff but I SADLY might go back to torrents or find a better NZB finder. What I liked was SABNZBD had a mobile tool and inbuilt matrix thing I never got a chance to GET into. I did pay N’Mat money but I wont whine about it as they were fantastic, I paid them to help run thier server – what happened has happened, 10usd was it? I bet you saved loads in downloads. Myself, I download TV Shows because I cannot receive I download movies I cannot buy or I dont trust, games aren’t any better I have them and they suck it’s like a trail. Saints Row was one I pirated but I loved it so I paid for the second and same with GoW I will buy shop stuff like merchendice. My mate paid for Vista full cash, a crappy OS he ditched and used ME (ON A DECENT MACHINE) – I got him 7 when it was out that’s not stealing in my eyes. He spent months with crappy OS’s both paid. Infact he shold be paid for it.

  • Daggett

    I was a member since June 2009, by far the best $10 I even spent. I got over 300 nzbs and over 1.5 TB worth of quality content, it will be deeply missed.

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  • Apenlul

    Right, then whats this at the day of shutdown? http://www.nzb-matrix.eu/

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  • david23

    nzbs.co.uk is the best alternative to matrix

  • NZB Finder

    You could give NZB Finder a go. This works perfectly with Sickbeard and Couchpotato to auto download.

    Updated every 5 minutes.

    http://www.nzbfinder.ws

  • NZB Finder

    You could give NZB Finder a go. This works perfectly with Sickbeard and Couchpotato to auto download.

    Only indexing HD content, Anime and Audio.

    Updated every 5 minutes and the backlog will eventually be 1100+ days.

    http://www.nzbfinder.ws

  • Dude

    Someone should start up a nzb/torrent/filehosting/streaming site.

  • Apenlul

    Just get your ass on european servers — http://www.nzb-matrix.eu

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  • Timo

    +1 for http://www.nzbgeek.info as the new NZB index of choice.
    Currently open signups.

  • Kevindd992002

    So which is really the best indexer now?

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