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  1. DMCA vs NTD: how takedown law decides what completes

    Retention gets all the attention, but the legal regime a backbone runs under quietly decides which articles vanish. The same NZB loses different parts on a DMCA feed than on an NTD one — and that gap is the whole case for diversity.

  2. Who owns whom in Usenet, 2026

    The market looks like dozens of independent providers. It collapses to about six backbones. Knowing which brand sits on which feed is the difference between real redundancy and paying twice for the same articles.

  3. Welcome to nzb.is

    A new blog about Usenet, NZB indexers, and digital privacy — written for people who already live in the space.