Explosiion of Encrypted/Scambled Posting have...

[Beck38]

What I'm getting at with the 'in the clear' nfo posting, is that there need not be a 'direct' link 'per se' to the scrambled filename, just make it take a couple of nano-watts of brainpower to 'make the linkage' so to speak.

Here's an example I can simply pull out of the air:

NFO:

Title: Brainstorm (1983)

URL: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007NR9WBG/...I2R8KSNYAO0UTP


I could put in several references, but will keep it to that one. Now, what on that public page would be a unique identifier that could be used as a 'scrambled' filename, and would be self-identifying in BOTH directions (take the scrambled name and it points to the title page, or take the title page and it points to the scrambled file-name)?

[chakara]

Well I guess I'm what you call a noob, as I've been using usenet through .nzbs for 5 years but don't know much else than copy/paste a release name in nzbclub, check "Search in nfo" and click on Search ....

It's been getting harder to find most stuff although thanks to indexing sites I've been able to download everything I want. I don't know what I'd do if they were to close down.

DMCA takedowns have an effect. Right now I'm downloading the first episode of the last season of Treme (which I consider "quality programming") and it's been targeted. I think I'll have enough pars, but I might not.

I can see that stuff is there but I can't get to it :/

I was just looking for the movie The Past (720p bluray). It was apparently posted 143d ago as there's a clear nfo for it. I've tried and look on the group where the nfo was posted, there are scrambled 6ish GB posts that could be it but I come up with PWed stuff.
(the movie was posted a few hours ago in clear but that's not the point here)

So yeah right now I can still use usenet to get what I want, but how long is that gonna last ?
For the first time in 5 years i've moved from a yearly plan to a quarterly one.

[freelance86]

i guess the easier they make it for us the easier they make it to get dmca. i had a couple of hard drives fail about 6 months ago so im trying to back track terabytes upon terabytes of stuff and when your looking at easily 500 or so movies it just becomes a complete nightmare with the hashed postings.

i have absolutely no issues with newer stuff (thor the dark world, the hunger games catching fire, popular tv shows etc) and you expect those to be hashed and indexed on even a basic newznab website, but with the slew of indexers that came and went since nzbmatrix they just dont index everything (which contradicts their claim to be the "best"), or limit you to so much retention, or force you to subscribe and use bitcoin and whatnot.

kind of turned into a rant but anywho...

[Beck38]

From what I see, the 'large' postings (like in a.b.blu-ray and such) seem to be heavily 'scrambled', yet the smaller ones (a.b.teevee and such) are rarely, that's kinda my point now. Yet it was the pro-wrestling capture folks on a.b.teevee that were squealing the loudest a year or so ago when the organized crime crowd dmca'ed a whole bunch of the high-priced ppv pro-wrestling postings, and everyone seemed to over-react.

Even I did a bit, but the minimal steps I took seem to be working just fine, thank you. Then again, a lot of folks saw an opportunity to pull their efforts into either a money-making venture or 'build an empire' scheme.

I still seem to get more than enough to keep things going, and re-post as much as possible, from 'private' scramblers to my scheme.