Missing blocks confusion

[zot]

My provider is UNS ... would you recommend I switch?

Personally, I would switch, but that's your choice.

Since you download HBO shows, sooner or later you can expect to run into files that have too many missing blocks to be fixed by pars. The solution is either to switch to another usenet provider (Astraweb, UsenetNow/Blocknews, and Ngroups/Usenet-news.net don't presently suffer from that particular problem) or use a block account from one of these providers as a fill server to pick up the parts missing from UNS.

supernews or astraweb

Supernews gets hit with DMCAs from HBO. (and Astraweb currently has its own completion problems in the ~200 day range, which hopefully will be fixed soon)

[JustDOSE]

zot stfu

[zot]

zot stfu

I'm sorry. I'll put you back on my ignore list if it makes you feel better.

[fk-bps]

What is it that makes some providers more vulnerable to take down requests from DMCA than others, is it to do with the geographical location of the servers?

[zot]

Giganews and Highwinds (sold/re-sold under a variety of different brand names) are the biggest American usenet providers and receive the brunt of DMCA takedowns. Many smaller, lesser known, and/or foreign-based NNTP providers have largely stayed out of the line of fire.

[A_T]

What is it that makes some providers more vulnerable to take down requests from DMCA than others, is it to do with the geographical location of the servers?

The DMCA only applies in the USA and as zot says the big names like Giganews and Highwinds get the brunt of it.

[mesaman]

AW US servers are in San Jose. If everyone who wants a HBO show or XBox game dumps GN SN and HW and piles into AW, doesn't that make AW the biggest? I don't like the idea of everyone crowding into the provider who is the last man standing. No more than 6% of any HBO show was ever removed from any server. Zot is saying don't dump your provider because of that 6%, get a block accont backup server.

[JustDOSE]

zot stfu

I'm sorry. I'll put you back on my ignore list if it makes you feel better.

it would actually, thanks noob

[fk-bps]

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I used this program to check the nzb out of interest and its apparent that articles had been deleted by the provider, cant they just delete the whole thing why do they insist on trolling the user? Could it be they want people to use there bandwidth as fast as possible to make people who pay for bandwidth rather than a fixed term run out of gigs quicker?

[johhny]

sabnzb is automatic fetching missing blocks