
If it’s set up like we set it up here, SABnzbd+ will check for news posts containing the phrase “the ultimate fighter s10” via the Newzleech RSS feed. Now what you’d do, I guess, is launch SABnzbd+ Wednesday morning before you leave your house.

Under no circumstances should you set it for anything more frequent than every 20 minutes, since that’s considered uncouth, and your IP address is likely to be banned by Newzleech. Then set the RSS checking interval (Config:RSS checking interval) to something reasonable, like once every 60 minutes. Go to SABnzbd+’s settings (Config:RSS) and input that URL. The RSS feed is updated every 20 minutes.ģ. What that does is comb the Usenet group (that’s the “g” in the URL) for the last 50 posts (that’s the “n”) containing the phrase “the ultimate fighter s10” (for season 10 episodes that’s the “s”). For, the RSS feed you make looks like this: Set up the RSS feed! I’ll be using the TV show The Ultimate Fighter as an example.

If you can’t figure this out then the rest is probably too much for you to handle anyway.Ģ. It basically involves launching the application, putting in your Usenet account info, then pointing the application to a few folders. It’s not hard, but I’m not about to hold your hand here. With your Usenet account in hand, go ahead and download and set up SABnzbd+. All I want to do is see Top Gear! Is that a crime?)ġ. (Incidentally, I’m right now removing the copy protection of a bunch of DVDs I bought in the UK this past week. Maybe if Hollywood got its act together we wouldn’t have to resort to this. Yeah, Americans can go to Hulu to watch some shows, but my overseas friends aren’t so lucky. I’ll be using as my example, but pretty much every NZB site out there should do this. An NZB site that provides an RSS feed.It’s free as in freedom and free as in beer. The easiest to use for our purposes here today, once you’ve set it up, is SABnzbd+. In my experience all these services are more or less the same, so feel free to shop around.

You’ll be spending around $10-$20 a month for access, but that gives you access to all the riches that Usenet provides. The big ones, off the top of my head, are Giganews, Newsdemon, Astraweb, and Supernews. In English, that means when you come home from work or class you’ll have the latest episode of The Ultimate Fighter all ready to be watched. (You can also accomplish pretty much the same thing using BitTorrent, but BitTorrent is so plebeian.) This RSS feed will carry NZB files that, magically, point your Usenet software to the actual files you’ll be viewing in VLC or MPlayer or whatever. What? Today we’ll be setting up our Usenet software to look at an RSS feed.
