09-03-2013, 10:11 AM
A lot of attention has turned away from torrents over the last year they are still a huge focus and the main public torrent trackers are easy pickings for the various agencies or groups (RIAA/MPAA/BPI, etc.), but NZB sites have really come under fire both with direct lawsuits and masses of DMCA take-down requests. Following Newsbin2 being blocked in the UK and shutting down shortly after a large number of other sites have followed suit. I guess the owners thought they were more secure as newsgroups had typically been ignored by copyright holders, but now as you say, shit has hit the fan for a number of them and others are jumping ship too.