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General talk / Re: General Usenet Observation/Question

« Last post by Zoloft on September 13, 2020, 03:01:26 pm »

most of what you download are releases by what are known as scene groups, an organized but independent group of content providers/pirates.  A few weeks back, a major scene group got "busted" by the US FBI.  Since then, the other scene groups have been essentially laying low, as to not draw any unnecessary attention to themselves.  Things are, and will continue to, slowly coming back to normal. 

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General talk / General Usenet Observation/Question

« Last post by Slinky on September 13, 2020, 09:10:55 am »

Has anyone else noticed the sudden disappearance of the regular tv show files, and by that i mean the ones that are less than 720p ?

Since about 2 weeks ago, 99% of searches of NZBs are now only returning 720p, 1080p or higher options, movies seem less effected, but when searching other places like torrents or http link sites, they are still there, but seem to have been culled from newsgroup servers.

I don't think this is down to AltBinz, but am not sure what's changed, anyone know? is it simply down to them not being posted to the newsgroups or what?

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General talk / data use

« Last post by MikeRD03 on January 06, 2020, 02:49:12 pm »

Hi, when using block accounts is there anywhere in Alt.Binz a counter for downloaded bytes from a certain server?

thanx, Mike

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General talk / Re: I've donated and still can't access contributor area!

« Last post by Rdl on October 18, 2019, 09:19:27 pm »

Falls du gespendet hast und keinen Zugriff bekommst liegt es evtl daran, dass du deinen Usernamen bei Paypal nicht angegeben hast. (Den Namen bitte bei der Spende unter "Comments" angeben). In diesem fall wende Dich bitte an "rdl" mit deiner Paypal-email und dem Transactionscode.
Evtl wurde deine Spende auch zurückgewiesen.

Nach der Spende dauert es max 1 Tag dann bekommst du Zugriff.

Die neueste Versionen findest du immer im Bereich "New Versions" zum Download nachdem du freigeschaltet bist
(https://www.altbinz.net/forum/index.php?board=6.0)

Ob du bereits freigeschaltet bist erkennst du entweder daran, dass du den Bereich "Daily Builds" sehen kannst oder daran, dass du der Benutzergruppe "Contributor" hinzugefügt wurdest. (steht unter deinem Usernamen)

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General talk / Re: Thank You!

« Last post by DizzyLizzy on December 27, 2018, 05:16:19 pm »

Over time, I've tried several others but kept coming back to this one. (especially not a fan of browser-based ones)
Yes indeed, thank you very much!

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General talk / Re: Anonymity

« Last post by Rdl on December 26, 2018, 08:13:15 pm »

Hallo,
first, sorry for the private message and thank you very much for answering my questions! I like your program very much, but suddenly I thought, what if "download logs" would be transfered to you with a fingerprinted version . Please do not take this personally, it was just a theoretical thinking .
Somewhere in the forum I read that you suggested to wireshark the traffic. But its not that easy, because the transfer (I think its just the "version check") is TLS encrypted . How should I see whats getting transfered to 92.222.91.121 and 51.255.201.135?

And I fully understand that you need to make sure that people do not share the licence, but what I do not get is, how you do this? The IP of the customer is always changing, especially with a vpn.

Therefore again, thank you for answering my questions !
One last thing: How to change the user name in this forum?

Why would I need "fingerprinted" version to identify you? You identify yourself to authentication servers when you send your altbinz forum username and password hash. On download logs I have nothing to add. Either there is trust or not. If not, best thing would be to switch to something you trust, I will not take it personally
Regarding wireshark, try it on 0.44.x versions and bellow, after that both calls to servers are encrypted (authentication call and version check call) and you can only hope I wasn't able to squeeze your few MBs download log into my encrypted 100-200 bytes traffic.
You cannot change your username, I could do it but those kind of requests now fall into this category https://www.altbinz.net/forum/general-talk/important-news-about-accounts/ and I am not willing to do it anymore.

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General talk / Re: Anonymity

« Last post by AltBinzUsenext545Z on December 26, 2018, 07:48:52 pm »

Hallo,
first, sorry for the private message and thank you very much for answering my questions! I like your program very much, but suddenly I thought, what if "download logs" would be transfered to you with a fingerprinted version . Please do not take this personally, it was just a theoretical thinking .
Somewhere in the forum I read that you suggested to wireshark the traffic. But its not that easy, because the transfer (I think its just the "version check") is TLS encrypted . How should I see whats getting transfered to 92.222.91.121 and 51.255.201.135?

And I fully understand that you need to make sure that people do not share the licence, but what I do not get is, how you do this? The IP of the customer is always changing, especially with a vpn.

Therefore again, thank you for answering my questions !
One last thing: How to change the user name in this forum?

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General talk / Re: Anonymity

« Last post by Rdl on December 26, 2018, 07:21:19 pm »

I have a question about anonymity:
Is a payed version of alt.binz somnewhat "pesonalized" or "fingerprinted"

Yes it is.

so that it can be identified by news servers?

No, news server cannot identify even what news program are you running/using.
And payed version is "pesonalized" or "fingerprinted" so I can enforce those basic 5 rules you agreed to when you donated.

I mean, you pay alt.binz through Paypal, so the seller has definetly the real email adresses, then you get a login name and a password. Everytime you logged into the payed version, at least the developer knows that the program is beeing used by this specific user. Are logs getting transfered to the makers of alt.binz?

You're using terms "seller", developer and then makers. You do know that it's the same one person?
Yes, I do know your paypal email address. I do not know your altbinz password, I do know hash of your username and password. I do not know you usenet login/password.
I do know, when you start/log in into payed version, IP, altbinz version and hash of the used computer/system. Why? Again - enforcing those 5 rules.
And no, logs are not transfered. Why would I need your download logs? I do not care what/if/when you download.

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General talk / Anonymity

« Last post by AltBinzUsenext545Z on December 26, 2018, 10:54:54 am »

I have a question about anonymity:
Is a payed version of alt.binz somnewhat "pesonalized" or "fingerprinted", so that it can be identified by news servers?
I mean, you pay alt.binz through Paypal, so the seller has definetly the real email adresses, then you get a login name and a password. Everytime you logged into the payed version, at least the developer knows that the program is beeing used by this specific user. Are logs getting transfered to the makers of alt.binz?
Maybe someone knows an answer to those questions....

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General talk / Re: Thank You!

« Last post by capncrunch on November 16, 2018, 10:56:43 pm »

I have been using the free version for years, which has met all my needs, and I suppose that's why I haven't donated before. Thought it was about time I donated to say thanks as its such a useful program - have tried others but come back to alt.binz. Hopefully some of the extra features will be used (but as I'm an infrequent downloader maybe not) but either way thanks for a great program and a no-nags no-pressure free version.

I've used the free version for the last few months and its worked well. I decided to donate specifically to help support continued development and also in appreciation of the no-nag/no-pressure free version. Alt.binz is a great option and I hope others who use it and haven't donated decide to do so!

Thanks to the devs!