• lepinkainen@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    The fact that nzbs are old as fuck and not one service has been taken down is weird.

    They bust torrent sites every day and they don’t even host anything.

    News hosters have literally petabytes of warez and nothing.

    And don’t get me started with real-debrid

    • DunkinCoder@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      It comes down to where the copyright material is stored. The actual media hosted by torrent users is by the users and as we know over the last 15 years, that backfired entirely. So the easiest way is to take down the tracker.

      The files for NZBs are hosted on newsgroups and while obfuscated, is much easier to automate DCMA notices to. Also, the good NZB sites (like private trackers), are tightly controlled so their files are rarely hit vs a lot of ones who have open signups.