The 'alphabet soup' approach is the way things are going now because of DMCA
actions. This has NOTHING to do with VPNs or the like.
Content is still being posted, abet most of it is coming from the torrent
sites. You need to find an NZB seach-engine that analyzes the contents of the
posts to find their true titles.
Pi
Barack YoMamma <BarryO@GhettoBlaster.Calm> wrote:
>On Thu, 09 Aug 2018 13:45:30 -0700, N.Sandfly
><newbiesandfly@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 09 Aug 2018 10:09:28 -0500, Barack YoMamma
>><BarryO@GhettoBlaster.Calm> wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, 08 Aug 2018 07:16:09 -0700, N.Sandfly
>>><newbiesandfly@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>just checking...nothing coming thru with my newsnet provider.
>>>
>>>Pretty much so. After 'Brad the Prolific' (BR@D22222) left the group,
>>>there hasn't been much action. No word as to why he left, but it's
>>>been guessed the DMCA lawyers got on his behind because of the massive
>>>amount of programming he was uploading (not unlike Rockhound in the
>>>ab.e-book.technical group a couple of years ago). And that may be one
>>>of the reasons why many of the video groups are on the decline these
>>>days, with groups like TeeVee being all but decimated in the past year
>>>or so.
>>>
>>>Usenet as the primary venue for 'pirated' video content may well be on
>>>the wane. But it was sure fun while it lasted.
>>>
>>>Barack YoMamma
>>
>>I am not a techie. So are you saying VPNs don't work on usenet.
>
>I'm not a techie, either; just sayin' that fewer people are posting
>because their posts are deleted by Usenet providers because of legal
>requests from DMCA lawyers, so they don't bother to make the effort to
>post much anymore. You can check with some of the NZB download sites
>like NZBGrabit to get some files which are encoded with the 'alphabet
>soup' filenames; free for the previous ten days, and a nominal
>membership fee to download NZB's for much further back. But I think
>the days of current programming showing up on Usenet as they have for
>quite some time are on the wane.
>
>Barack
>
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