many downloads incomplete - astranews

[cola]

What I meant by problematic is that with the quality of astraweb's feed so bad right now, it's a bit hard to distinguish between a DMCA takedown and just the feed quality at times. Not impossible. But if I were to claim that this NZB was DMCA'ed by Astraweb, you could easily say that its just incomplete because Astraweb's feed quality is so degraded.


Harry_Potter_And_The_Deathly_Hallows_Part_1_TS_720p__XViD_-_IMAGiNE.zip

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[mesaman]

Doesn't fit any pattern of DMCA, it's random pieces.

On Astraweb:

.r36 - missing 52 and 58
.r44 - missing 32,46,60,64
.r45 - missing 32,65
.r46 - missing 27,41,60
.r47 - missing 47,49.
.r48 - missing 40

On Giganews it depends on the server. A few articles are consistently missing on the L.A. server:

.r04 - missing 17
.r17 - missing 59
.r35 - missing 17
.r39 - missing 30
.r41 - missing 27
.r46 - missing 23
.r49 - missing 1
sample - missing 19

[Hypatia]

But if I were to claim that this NZB was DMCA'ed by Astraweb

It is clearly not DMCAed/
I dunno where did u get the idea that this particular upload was DMCed.

Not even close. Nothing fits
And here i thought you knew as you claimed, the difference, between DMCAed articles and just incompletes.

just some random , small completion issue quite possibly caused during the upload process or later.

[cola]

What port, since that seems to make a difference with AW.

Also, post an nzb thats clearly DMCA'ed so we can all look.

[Hypatia]

here is one of the HBO tv series episodes that was DMCAed on giganews\supernews(they dmca HBO series, console games on a regular basis)

and here is the picture that shows the pattern

1-2 blocks from every file are removed.(worst case- everything is removed, but i saw just several of the kind)

if posters make 10% par2 then in most cases its not a problem. if its only 5% par2then not everything can be repaired.

[Beck38]

Cute... but more pars does defeat it. I wonder if they 'ramp up' the deletions if they see that it does have more pars...

Meanwhile, still no improvement, Monday it will be one month since their 'official' announcement on their site of problems.

For whatever reason, in my testing, the absolute worst part of their plant is centered around 30Mar11, absolutely dreadful.

I though I could see things were actually getting worse a couple days ago, but it was well within the 'wobble' factor of my ISP connection and the error rate came back to within were it was weeks ago.

[Hypatia]

I wonder if they 'ramp up' the deletions if they see that it does have more pars...

they wont lift a finger unless they get specific details of the upload that needs to be removed in a dmca take down request

Those only 1-2 blocks removed- you might consider them as a sign of dmca mafia's watchdogs stupidity and lack of knowledge about how usenet works. or they are just lazy. =====>

Message-IDs for all articles the DMCA Notice is requesting Giganews take down.

unless there is an easy way to show all message-ID of all articles at once.. i dunno about that.

[cola]

When I tested on supernews, I didn't get the same result as you did:

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Using Astraweb:

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[Hypatia]

through away whatever you are using to check atricles availability =)

NZb download checker is the way to go.

You can try to actually download this nzb and you will see incompletes.

here is the same picture from supernews for this NZb
http://img235.imagevenue.com/img.php..._122_443lo.gif (supernews eu)

here is Sabnzbd report
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85 articles were missing

(supernews eu, not counting a bit of not downloaded(not needed) par2 articles)

astrawebs' stats
Files found: 51
Message-ID's required: 2894
Message-ID's found: 2894
Message-ID's missing from the NZB: 0 (0%)
The files were posted 268 day(s) ago.


Parts checked: 2894
Undownloadable parts: 0
All OK!


supenews tats

Files found: 51
Message-ID's required: 2894
Message-ID's found: 2894
Message-ID's missing from the NZB: 0 (0%)
The files were posted 268 day(s) ago.


Parts checked: 2894
Undownloadable parts: 86
2,97% of the data can't be downloaded!

[Beck38]

A bit ago (last month) I brought up here:

https://filesharingtalk.com/threads/4...Posting-etc%29

that what was needed was a real, windows-based, multi-provider, nzb checker. Still searching (latest to go through the grind and fail miserably is "NZB Completion Checker"). You bring up the "NZB Download Checker" (I'll assume v2.0.391), yet another program that 'says' it runs on windows, but not on my machines (probably requires some add-on that I don't have and don't want cluttering up things).

So, so far, it doesn't exist. I guess that the relative high-completion rate, ever since the bumpiness of the 'retention wars' of late 2008, that it hasn't reared it's ugly head. Until now. A decent tool MAY have given some 'early warning' as to problems. We'll never know now, though.

Come Monday (the one month anniversary of Astraweb acknowledging the problems) I'm going to send a blistering message to this chumps. Then I'll probably join the horde of others that have jumped ship.