"Equally as important is further refining what makes us Notwhat and working to really distinguish ourselves. By doing so, we aim to attract more music lovers to our tracker and encourage more activity. The Gold standard for CD rips has been a good start on the road to discovering our true niche and we'd like both reward the efforts of our Gold uploaders as well as allow the community the opportunity to freely discover new music while also helping to secure a substantial seeding base for each and every Gold FLAC.

From the time of this announcement, all existing Gold FLACs are freeleech and future Golds will be made freeleech at the time of staff approval. This FL status will be permanent. We hope this prompts even more of our community to rip and upload their CD collections and also goes some way to making our community more appealing to potential new members - both uploaders and downloaders."