NZB from a friend???

[TheBossMan]

I have a friend that can email nzb files from a site where is registered on, can he be banned for sharing those NZB files or is it ok for him to just email me the NZB file to download myself?


Sorry all I'm not giving names


just need to know if he may or may not.


edit: O yeah been a while since I was on the forum.. Great new look...

 

[Techrat]

It will be fine. It makes no difference where the NZB comes from. Frankly NZB sites are somewhat uncecessary, it makes it easier for some people than search engines though. Anyway he won't get banned, unless he tells people he's giving them away.

 

[Pada]

I don't know much about NZB files, but I don't think they contain tracker/private data like torrent files do. My guess is that he can send those .nzb files to you and then you can download the content from whichever server you prefer: astraweb/gigaweb/internet solutions, etc.

 

[diabolus]

Go here and make your own NZBs for free. http://binsearch.info/ (and there's many sites all over ). Just do a search for something , you tick the boxes in the results of what you want and then click "Create NZB"..and voila. It is the next best thing since sliced bread, yes.


An NZB is just a manifest listing where on usenet the files are for easy downloading. So you can literally just pop it into a app like Grabit and it starts downloading. NZBs is also pretty much a text file [XML] , but as far as i can see it is just a convenient way to package all the lose pieces of files on usenet in one package . In the past you'd have to browse manually to say alt.binaries.tv.series and download every little piece one by one, get an app to "decode" and then "recombine" it and then finally you would have your movie clip...now it's literally just the NZB and that's it .

You still need an actual usenet account to download the files itself (or local access IS/SAIX).....that's usually what is more important. No one cares that you got the NZB [why would they?] . It's like someone sending you a torrent link..

 

[Pada]

Here's a whole list of NZB search engines that you can use: http://www.google.com/Top/Computers/Usenet/Search/NZB/
The downside of using a non-local search engine is that you have no idea of whether the content is cached on the local news servers or not - unlike the local NZB site(s) where you need an invite.