[private] nzb

[therichardharrison]

I use NZBindex as a backup to my normal indexer and recently I've been seeing a lot of nzb's marked as "private". Is this something new that's crept into the scene? How do you use them? They aren't marked as password protected but sabnzbd won't decrypt them.

Any insight would be appreciated.

[sander]

I have no insight, except for:

1) I see very little [private] NZBs: a few kB, with only an .NFO file in it
2) I see bigger [private] NZBs: 1GB or so. I downloaded one, and it had . CBR in it, which is a Comic Book Reader

[therichardharrison]

I have no insight, except for:

1) I see very little [private] NZBs: a few kB, with only an .NFO file in it
2) I see bigger [private] NZBs: 1GB or so. I downloaded one, and it had . CBR in it, which is a Comic Book Reader

so you're able to pull them down? They complete? They uncompress?

I assumed they were password protected.

[sander]

Indeed. No problem for the three I tried.

[therichardharrison]

Indeed. No problem for the three I tried.

I guess I'll stop avoiding them.
Thanks.

[fenlander]

I tried a couple of video files. They downloaded and extracted but neither would play.

This guy has been around for while posting in a.b.inner-sanctum though the [private] label is a recent innovation. He has a reputation for reposting (often) incomplete or corrupt versions of other posters' rips. Some newznab indexers now filter out his posts.