I have a concern that if you download an NZB file from somewhere like Newzbin.com, this can be monitored and they could know your downloading the greatest hits of metalica, based on the file name of the NZB.
I think they'd have a hard time proving that you are downloading the data suggested by a downloaded NZB file, if you are using an SSL connection.
The NZB sites like
Merlin's Portal are useful for giving you an idea of what's available, but you don't actually need to download the NZB.
If you know what newsgroup your file is hosted on, you just browse that newsgroup from within a newsgroup program like Altbinz:
For example, taking a quick look through alt.binaries.multimedia.vintage-film.post 1960
A typical 14 day period brings up the following: (remember that some premium usenet suppliers store files for 200 days, so you'll never run out of interesting stuff)
Let's pick Scorcese's "Last Waltz" - an 8 Gig file made up of 74 different parts. Just click on it, and altbinz will download all the parts automatically, and Unrar them all for you as well.
So, the pc is making 10 connections to the usenet server with a combined download of 1455 KB/s. Slightly quieter time of night & you'd get the full 2200 KB/s (assuming you're on Virgin 20Mb)
At the present rate, the 8 Gig DVD would download in 1 hr 31 mins!
Of course, this example is for illustrative purposes. You would, of course, go out & buy the DVD instead
If however they downloaded the exact message IDs needed to recreate the file themselves, then show that the NZB they extracted from those message IDs was copyrighted and show that you downloaded the exact same messages from the same server then I suspect you could be in trouble.
