Official Crystal Web ADSL performance feedback thread Part 2...

Are you satisfied with your Crystal Web account?

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Crystal Web said:
NNTP downloads failed update:

Massive spike in DMCA takedown notices issued. Number of DMCA takedown instructions have just about doubled in the last 2 weeks, and have hit nntp services quite hard.

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This is as a result of Google's new algorithms that demote sites in search results based on the number of DMCA takedown requests issued against them. As a result, DMCA takedown requests have increased massively, resulting in failed downloads as content is legally removed from servers.
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No. Again, you are trying to imply that the problems YOU are experiencing are universal, which is just not the case. I am happy to post logs from my Sabnzbd, showing current series successfuly downloaded via my WA account, using Tweaknews servers. Please stop spreading misinformation to make yourself look better.

BTW, the picture you posted is from an article which is a week old, which specifically states that most of the sites were the newly popping up "warez" sites and torrent indexers, and NOT NNTP servers.

http://torrentfreak.com/google-takedown-requests-surge-after-new-anti-piracy-measures-140102/

ETA: Top sites with removal requests against them - not a SINGLE news server:

http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/domains/?r=last-week
 
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aktor said:
Only if they happen to be on the blocklist.
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That's how I understand it to work too. If you on the free version you limited to the number of DB updates per week, so there is a chance they could be new and not in your local list.

Still better off with Peerblock than without.
 
Vlad_M said:
No. Again, you are trying to imply that the problems YOU are experiencing are universal, which is just not the case. I am happy to post logs from my Sabnzbd, showing current series successfuly downloaded via my WA account, using Tweaknews servers. Please stop spreading misinformation to make yourself look better.

BTW, the picture you posted is from an article which is a week old, which specifically states that most of the sites were the newly popping up "warez" sites and torrent indexers, and NOT NNTP servers.

http://torrentfreak.com/google-takedown-requests-surge-after-new-anti-piracy-measures-140102/

ETA: Top sites with removal requests against them - not a SINGLE news server:

http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/domains/?r=last-week
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The data comes from Google's transparency reports which you have linked to, and the data has not changed since, hence creating a new picture was not required. You wouldn't expect a news server, or even our news server to exist in the largest sites with DMCA takedowns.

If you have a legal solution for a news server provider to not be bound by DMCA takedown notices, or to not be affected, we will gladly listen and pass on the information to our news server partners.
 
I for one haven't had issues with completions using Ozzy index
 
Crystal Web said:
The data comes from Google's transparency reports which you have linked to, and the data has not changed since, hence creating a new picture was not required. You wouldn't expect a news server, or even our news server to exist in the largest sites with DMCA takedowns.

If you have a legal solution for a news server provider to not be bound by DMCA takedown notices, or to not be affected, we will gladly listen and pass on the information to our news server partners.
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Is a CW seedbox an option?
 
Vlad_M said:
Please stop spreading misinformation to make yourself look better.
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We certainly are not doing so - we also were not shy that there were issues with the news server. I was specifically addressing the recent failed downloads problems, which are as a result of failed blocks due to DMCA takedown notices.
 
Crystal Web said:
You wouldn't expect a news server, or even our news server to exist in the largest sites with DMCA takedowns.
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The interesting thing is that I don't see any results for Nextgennews in there. Well, maybe the net's still being cast and Google's new black magic will do its thing next month.
 
Crystal Web said:
We certainly are not doing so - we also were not shy that there were issues with the news server. I was specifically addressing the recent failed downloads problems, which are as a result of failed blocks due to DMCA takedown notices.
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No, they are not.
 
aktor said:
I guess the fact that someone was arrested and indicted for torrenting in Cape Town recently turned people off a bit. Even though I believe that was for actually uploading a torrent.
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This guy only got nailed because he uploaded a local movie that had yet to hit cinema screens to The Pirate Bay and was seeding it, and that made him a target of SAFACT.

Thing is, this movie was already doing the rounds and becoming crazy popular thanks to it's subject material (based on life of a gangster in the Cape Flats) and funnily enough, street side pirates who sell dvds. At this point there were trying to minimize the amount of damage done, even though the majority of people who had pirate copies at this point didn't get it off The Pirate Bay.
 
aktor said:
How, though? Once you've reached tier 2 data, HTTP downloads would be shaped anyway, wouldn't it?
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When your Tier 1 data is finished torrents are pretty much dead till 00:00 whereas HTTP is shaped and downloads will still work. So effectively you are bypassing the shaper by passing off what was p2p traffic, with almost zero output during daylight hours, to http which is merely shaped.

If you still have Tier 1 data left then there's no shaper to worry about bypassing.

@CW what you think?
 
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