Takedowns - Why Are They Still Happening Despite Scrambled File Names

[nQQ]

This thread seems to have veered on to indexing sites, surely the OP was on about news servers. After all if posts are being taken down from news servers it doesn't matter whether indexing sites continue, as the posts are unavailable. So are takedowns due to programs to download and check the content of files leading to takedown or because there is bots invading indexing sites and using these to verify content that needs taking down?

[MacGyverSG1]

I'm sure the companies are trying every method possible to remove copyrighted material. The reason why more and more archives are password protected. The problem with that is getting the passwords. The websites that contain the passwords are secret (invite only). Look at all the German websites taken down recently.

[jbloggs]

nzbmatrix and newzbin both made more money in a few years than you will in a lifetime and they got away with it too.

The original Newsbin made big bucks (over a million) but ran into legal hassles. They tried to poor mouth it but court documents showed the kind of money they raked in.

The Matrix became the only game in town for the most part. They made millions. They shut down before any legal hassles. Smart move.

Thanks to open source programs like newznab anybody can set up a site. The competition is too fierce for anybody to do what the Matrix did.

I don't think there any sites that are anywhere near as good as Matrix was, unless there are one out there that are super dooper stealthy secret

[nQQ]

The original Newsbin made big bucks (over a million) but ran into legal hassles. They tried to poor mouth it but court documents showed the kind of money they raked in.

The Matrix became the only game in town for the most part. They made millions. They shut down before any legal hassles. Smart move.

Thanks to open source programs like newznab anybody can set up a site. The competition is too fierce for anybody to do what the Matrix did.

I don't think there any sites that are anywhere near as good as Matrix was, unless there are one out there that are super dooper stealthy secret

Is that some sort of subtle request with the implied " if there is and you have an invite ...."

[NameUser]

Same uploaders who uploaded for Matrix are still uploading for the remaining sites, if anything I would say the number of uploads on Usenet has increased tenfold due to every decent site having their own mass uploads.