20th Century fox vs Newzbin

Neodite said:
http://torrentfreak.com/hackers-set-to-bring-newzbin-back-online-100523/
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That link's nearly a month old mate; Newzbin2's been back online for a while now. Works perfectly here. Maybe try changing your DNS and then flushing the cache/rebooting the router etc? :)

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Been working for a few weeks here... Not sure why it wouldn't for anyone else!

Have been a lack of reports though, many old admins and people didn't return to the new site.
 
Robboftw said:
That was ages ago.

It works just as it did before now, albeit it is a tiny bit slower.

Clear your cache etc and try it again.

Edit: Beaten! :(
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I know, just showing it's not the same people doing it now.

And people might be abit iffy to sending money over to hackers. And the fact that half the posters didn't want anything to do with the new site
 
Thought this news might be worth adding -

Barrister struck off by Bar Standards Board owned Newzbin

Now it has been revealed that the barrister who represented Newzbin during part of the High Court trial in 2010 was, in fact, the 100% owner of the shares in the company. David Harris, who practised in Brighton, was struck off by the Bar Standards Board for “professional misconduct”, both in representing his privately owned company in court and for abusive messages (such as calling members of the legal profession “slimebags”) that he posted on the social networking website Twitter under the pseudonym “Geeklawyer”. This brought the profession into “disrepute” and “diminished public confidence in the legal profession”. Mr Harris was struck off and fined £2,500.

http://www.mablaw.com/2012/02/barrister-struck-off-by-bar-standards-board-owned-newzbin/
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What? The newzbin guy (according to articles on newzbin) didn't have a lawyer, and self-represented. He was also a complete tool about it, thinking he'd get away scott-free just because TPB did, and clearly demonstrated he knew nothing about law.
 
Not entirely relevant but Newzbin2 is now officially dead -

It is with regret that we announce the closure of Newzbin2.

A combination of several factors has made this the only option. For a long time we have struggled with poor indexing of Usenet, poor numbers of reports caused by the majority of our editors dropping out & no-one replacing them. Our servers have been unstable and crashing on a regular basis meaning the NZBs & NFOs are unavailable for long periods and we don't have the money to replace them.

Newzbin2 was always hoped to be a viable underground commercial venture. The figures just don't stack up. Newzbin1 was said to have had 700,000 registered users. In fact that was the total number of people who ever signed up in the history of Newzbin from 2000 onwards & only a fraction were active, loads of people dropped out & went to other sites. We reckon they had about 100,000 users and of those only a few 10's of thousands paid premium topups.That still made good money for the Newzbin1 guys. We never quite got the trust and lots of people said "Newzbin2 is an MPA trap", that stung us bad and we never got the userbase back. We don't have much more than about 40000 active users and the number of premium users is in the small thousands. It costs much more to run than we bring in, It just doesn't stack up.

To make things worse all our payment providers dropped out or started running scared. The MPA sued Paypal and are going at our innocent payment provider Kthxbai Ltd in the UK. Our other payment provider has understandably lost their nerve. Result? We have no more payment providers to offer & no realistic means of taking money (no, Bitcoin isn't credible as it's just too hard for 90% of people).

The tragedy is this: unlike Newzbin1 we are 100% DMCA compliant. We have acted on every DMCA notice we received without stalling or playing games: if there was a DMCA complaint the report was gone. Period. That was a condition of our advertising & payment partners so we complied but we never got a single complaint from the MPA. Not one.

Will we be back? not as a search service but we might run a blog from this site at some point.

http://newzbin2.es/
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