Just cirious about what people think about nzb indexing sites charging VIP and the bigger picture.
I’m not talking about sites ike binsearch.info, yabal, nzbindex.nl, newzleech etc. I’m talking about the ones like merlinsportal, nzbmatrix, nzbsrus and applies to others in the past like newzbin. Who charge people to download nzbs. (I know they have free memberships but they’re very limited)
Most members don’t understand the way usenet work so assume that who ever uploads the 1mb nzb is the person actually uploading the multiple gigabytes of tv episodes, games, movies etc.
When really they all come from the efnet channels and the websites, like binaries4ever, usenet4all, realmom and the channels #a.b.teevee, #a.b.moovee, #a.b.games.xbox360, #a.b.games.wii .I know there are loads more channels and websites who upload new content to usenet but just listing the most popular/well known ones.
These channels make no money and are all set up through the owners back pocket paying the fees each month to keep the channel running with the bots etc. Websites which upload the content have advertising but make hardly any money compared to the indexing sites.
So these indexing sites are listing other peoples content they’ve uploaded, which is the reason they get new members, so they can download all this new stuff. When the actual memebrs/staff of these websites and irc channels are the actual ones uploading all the content to usenet. Only to have their posts uploaded on these indexing sites to have memebrs be charged to download them. And the channels, websites delibratly don’t put any passwords on them but could you blame them if they started to? To only let members from the respected comminities download them. There would be a massive cry from the indexing sites about it, but like I said for people who understand the way usenet works could you really blame them? Passwording the content THEY UPLOAD.
I just think it’s wrong to charge people for VIP on indexing sites, they should all be free to download and follow the chain like the nzb section here , making it free to download what you want and how ever many nzbs you want regardless of size. They would get more members = more money from advertising which would probably work out the same if they charged for VIP which is less members.
Doesn't seem fair imo that these sites who list other peoples content they’ve uploaded to usenet get money while the actual people who upload them don’t.
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