Astraweb upgrades retention to 365 days

I get much better speeds on a single connection and uploading to Giganews due to much closer proximity and great routing to their datacenter. But both max out my line over multiple connections. The upgrade in retention is always nice, but I'll go with Astraweb unless Giganews price drops or something.

There is something else I just thought about. I read elsewhere that Giganews has taken down some files or parts of the articles to comply with copyright claims, and I figure they get a lot more of these as the biggest provider. Anyone know about that issue, especially compared to Astraweb?

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Originally Posted by GWashington

I read elsewhere that Giganews has taken down some files or parts of the articles to comply with copyright claims, and I figure they get a lot more of these as the biggest provider. Anyone know about that issue, especially compared to Astraweb?

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fuck no... 98.99% of shit on all the servers is copyrighted.. IF anything someone alerted them of illegal porn and I hope they'd take that out.

Just made the jump to Astraweb myself, but from easynews (I know, but the web interface was convenient) and couldn't be happier.

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Originally Posted by 222MHz

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Originally Posted by GWashington

I read elsewhere that Giganews has taken down some files or parts of the articles to comply with copyright claims, and I figure they get a lot more of these as the biggest provider. Anyone know about that issue, especially compared to Astraweb?

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fuck no... 98.99% of shit on all the servers is copyrighted.. IF anything someone alerted them of illegal porn and I hope they'd take that out.

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Obviously. But if a copyright holder submits a proper DMCA notice to the usenet provider, they will have to comply to meet the safe harbor requirements. So I've heard speculation that GN has complied at times but I'm curious if that's the case and if Astraweb has too.

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Originally Posted by 222MHz

fuck no... 98.99% of shit on all the servers is copyrighted.. IF anything someone alerted them of illegal porn and I hope they'd take that out.

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Obviously. But if a copyright holder submits a proper DMCA notice to the usenet provider, they will have to comply to meet the safe harbor requirements. So I've heard speculation that GN has complied at times but I'm curious if that's the case and if Astraweb has too.

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I could be wrong but I think if they have US servers they pretty much have to comply, however I think the copyright holder has to submit a certain file to be removed and given the fact that the same file with a different name will be up shortly after in most cases it's probably a moot point. Thankfully the majority of people still beleive that P2P is where all those nasty pirates get their ill gotten goods so I think usenet is still largely ignored.

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Originally Posted by rippinitup4fun

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Originally Posted by the mighty

Would you recommend paying for either Newzbin or nzbrus to take advantage of the 240 retention listings? On Nzbmatrix, for example, you can't download NZB's older than 20 days unless you become a ZIP member.

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I would recommend paying for newzbin. It is dirt cheap and during the holidays you can get it half off. Right now it is like 2 dollars a month. Nzbsrus is also dirt cheap but still allow 4 nzb downloads a day for free. If you have the means pay for both they are great resources. I have really no experience with nzbmatrix maybe someone else who deos will chime in. If you can only pay for one I would say nzbsrus, but I am partial to the layout and speed of nzb pre's there.

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you shouldnt recommend things mate, since your telling people to pay for something they can get for free on another site..

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I would recommend paying for newzbin. It is dirt cheap and during the holidays you can get it half off. Right now it is like 2 dollars a month. Nzbsrus is also dirt cheap but still allow 4 nzb downloads a day for free. If you have the means pay for both they are great resources. I have really no experience with nzbmatrix maybe someone else who deos will chime in. If you can only pay for one I would say nzbsrus, but I am partial to the layout and speed of nzb pre's there.

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you shouldnt recommend things mate, since your telling people to pay for something they can get for free on another site..

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To may people newzbin is worth the price.
Myself being one that believes so. I usually jump in on the half price sale in January, and it cost less that $20 for a year.

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Originally Posted by rippinitup4fun

I would recommend paying for newzbin. It is dirt cheap and during the holidays you can get it half off. Right now it is like 2 dollars a month. Nzbsrus is also dirt cheap but still allow 4 nzb downloads a day for free. If you have the means pay for both they are great resources. I have really no experience with nzbmatrix maybe someone else who deos will chime in. If you can only pay for one I would say nzbsrus, but I am partial to the layout and speed of nzb pre's there.

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you shouldnt recommend things mate, since your telling people to pay for something they can get for free on another site..

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He asked so I told, as broken said newzbin is worth it to many. Not any one site has it all, newzbin is just another tool in the bag and I for one beleive it is worth the pennies a day it costs.

I've tried easynews, giganews, and astraweb and I couldn't be happier with astraweb. It's by far the best value for the money.