14.10.12 In the past few days we made some changes to the rules. All users are strongly advised to read them again carefully. For more info or if you have any questions, please post here.

Hi,

as some of you may have already noticed, during the past few days we made some changes in the rules. The most important changes are as follows:


1) Forbidden characters for file names and torrent titles:

Rules wrote:
Use only the Latin alphabet for the title. The characters / : < > | must not be used in the file/folder names. The characters / : < > | ( ) [] must not be used in torrent title except in cases when they are in the movie title according to IMDB.

2) Audio descriptions: Compression ratio is NOT required anymore

3) In "Prohibited content": non-3D BD50-to-BD25 Re-encodes are not anymore allowed. Since we do not allow dupes and since there is already enough "supply" of transparent 1080p MKV encodes, that are also much smaller than BD25, we felt that BD25 Re-encodes have become an obsolete format for our tracker, given also the relatively low demand for them. Please note, however, that BD25 Remuxes, aka BD25 Untouched, and 3D BD25 Re-encodes are still allowed. For similar reasons, we have also prohibited BD5 and BD9 (aka AVCHD) encodes.

4) In "Dupe rules": there are several changes here:

There is no exception anymore for DVD5-sized 720p encodes vs. over-DVD5-sized 720p encodes. That means that from now on only one 720p encode is allowed to stay.


There are now detailed rules about how releases can be replaced by other releases. The new rules allow for a selection process that is geared towards quality / transparency. "Only the best one remains in the end."

In particular, internal releases can also be replaced by external releases if you manage to prove conclusivelythat you have a better one. Bitrate/size considerations are not sufficient for this. We require a visual proof (seeDupe Rules for details). However, just because someone can pump endless bitrate in his encode, does not mean that we are going to replace our internal encodes with heavily oversized ones


The rules now explicitly say that Blu-ray rips of TV show seasons replace the HDTV/WEB-DL seasons (for the same resolution). Again, the rules are geared towards quality.


Please use this thread ONLY if you have any questions or constructive remarks regarding the changes that may help us improve the text. This thread is NOT for criticizing the rules or for opinions like "the new rules are bad", nor for suggestions for new changes or complaints, rants and any other kind of spam. Spam comments will be deleted and their authors may be warned. If you don't have a question or anything constructive to say, please don't spam this topic for the others. The essence of the rules is not going to change.