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In the past 3 years on usenet, something has changed though. Perhaps in response to this article and/or the others talking about it.

Some studios are getting drastically faster at getting their content pulled within minutes of nzb's appearing on the index sites. It's not as if its difficult to scan the groups and topics and issue take-down's on posts to the NSP's.

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I got 99 problems, but missing articles ain't one.

Get cheap block accounts from various providers, ideally one from each major reseller, configure them as backup/fill servers.

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I think what changed was it achieved enough popularity for rights owners to notice it. Due to being (relative to say bittorrent) complex to set up, it skated by on obscurity.

> within minutes of nzb's appearing on the index sites.

I was surprised nzb didn't get attacked more often. Posting an index of a post before the post it indexed could have meant an attacker grabbing the index, and then uploaded a bunch of junk to poison that index. If they're posting little 1 MB files and you're posting 20 MB split rars their posts are going to propagate faster.

This. Some shows seem impossible to get via usenet and I end up looking for torrents anyway. (Also some shows seem not popular enough, so again torrents to the rescue). Which still is a major PITA as I never looked into something like SickBeard but for torrents. Any recommendations?

Yeah, some networks (HBO) are extremely vigilant. If you don't have some kind of always-on device scanning for releases you'll be too late.

You might find there's a SickBeard fork for torrents called SickRage...

Just as with torrents, the public trackers will always have this issue. Private ones tend to have less of a problem.

What is the usenet equivalent of a private tracker? The problem with "private" indexers is the content they are indexing (the actual encoded articles) are still public.

There are private NZB sites where the NZBs themselves are not indicative of the context -- hashed titles, with password protected files. I work for a Usenet provider - it's still very much alive both for discussions and for file sharing. You just have to be very savvy.

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