The Walking Dead S01 720p HDTV x264-MECK90

It's funny how this guy steals everyones work and calls it his own, fucking lamer...just the scene encodes (or the WEB-DL's, either way there not his to call his own) he's repacked and uploaded....classic n00b.

The Walking Dead scene one all under 150 days so there easily grab able.

Technically no one can really call Web-DL's they're own, usually you're just repacking the container. Either way, how do you know he reused someone else's, filesize? And if so, why would you post it up here keeping his name?

Yes WEB-DL you can call your own since your the one who has to work around the iTunes DRM and actually mux it, etc.. It's more than repacking the container. You can see the groups that did the WEB-DL, ETP and EbP.

If I didn't keep his name and someone else uploaded this set, it would be a dupe.

How do I know, lets see he DID NOT cap them or they would be out already....next, he just thinks he can use his name cause he uploads the shit, and that's not how it works...just because you upload and want to be famous for uploading shit to Usenet, well that's not the way to do it. Maybe I should should just start taking scene TV caps and adding my name

It's just like his proper BRRips bullshit, which aren't propers at all.

Actually I know how to do a Web-DL, I've done everything under the sun except Apple, usually I stick to M$ web content (though it requires transparent encoding to fool the masses into thinking it's from a different service). I thought DRM stripping was easier to do for iRape content than M$, so maybe I'm not appreciating something here. I meant to say what's different from the original file besides DRM stripping (I just assume that was implied), which would be the packaging. The audio/video encode was done by employees, which is what makes the release unique. If both myself and someone else did a Web-DL from iRape, and muxed it with the same version of mkvmerge, the only difference would be the date and time. I never work Apple stuff because their colors are really faded out and I just deep down hate Apple and thus could never have an installation of their program on my system.

OK, so you didn't want to dupe it, I might have tagged it as "-MECK90isanidiot" or "-MECK90isamoron", there are very very few posting NZB's here anyhow. You and toriless seem to be the only 2 consistently off the top of my head.

As far as I know Apple (MAC OSX) it only takes few moments to do the WEB-DL's....

It would be very very very easy for me (if I had the upload capacity) to do this as well, I would at least give credit where credit is due.

If you download them, and extract them, I would almost say 99.9%, if you compare the WEB-DL or the scene 720p of each episode in this release they would match.

I know most there isn't a lot of posting, but ya new know

I don't think I understood your last sentence
Credit to the person doing the work, I get that, it's just hard to compare web-dl's was the point. From what I understand, you've seen this guy do it a lot so I'm not doubting, was just curious about whether or not you went and did the comparison of every file =)

There not his, period. It says HDTV, jesus, so there not WEB-DL!!!

I never assumed they were web-dls, I was just following your lead buddy, you were the one to suggest the release could be a web-dl. Additionally, I was just conversing slightly off the main topic, not arguing a point here, no need to open up a holy bag of exclamation points for that. I was more interested in our conversation about release name entitlement of web-dls in general than this two-bit hack's excuse of an 'original' release (well except for my last reply, in which I didn't really make any points altogether). I don't come across many people that have even the slightest clue about DRM-stripped files and the like, so I liked drumming up a back and forth on it while I had the opportunity. I think you might have been led astray somewhere along the way as to what my intentions were for each comment... I get the impression that you think I was confused about something or was combative, neither being the case.

For one, there are only 2 different groups that do WEB-DL's for this particular show, eg.. ETP and EbP (both P2P groups), and are different sizes, and each will have a different CRC (and not to mention other tings that could be tale tell signs). So it would be very very easy to tell if you took someone else WEB-DL.

if you encode it, you buy it, you strip, etc, and go through the process then yes, you can call it your release.

For instance what if you started releasing WEB-DL's, and say....

Jack.S01E01.WEBDL.XXXXXXXXXXXXXX-mjmacky

and the rest of the season, and say this user just packaged your web-dl's into a rar and used...

Jack.S01.WEBDL.XXXXXXXXXXXXXX-MECK90

Now wouldn't that be taking your "release" ??

I'm not surprised about file size difference between ETP and EbP either, any number of things will change the filesize when muxing, including a different version of mkvmerge, language tags, flags, chapter inclusions, etc.
I was only discussing a hypothetical point, that I could buy my own episode from iTunes, mux it using the same version of mkvmerge and likely end up with the exact same filesize as another group (assuming default use of mkvmerge versions 4.0.0 and below). To check this point, I remuxed an anime release and compared filesizes and they match to a tee, their CRC values I don't know, but I do know that their ed2k hash values do not match (so it would be likely to have a diff CRC value); which only highlights the common knowledge that filesize is not enough.
That is however a lesser point; what I find more interesting is that I could take someone else's Web-DL release, remux and package it with chapters and call it my own, but you would never be able to tell it was another group's because the video/audio would be exactly the same whether I bought and stripped myself or grabbed it from another group (unmuxed, they are exactly the same video and audio streams). So basically that would be the one thing on which I a disagree with you, I could mask someone else's Web-DL release, provided they didn't do anything to alter the original audio and video streams that came from Apple (besides the DRM strip, which would change it the same way).
I have not ever done that, nor will I. I utilize a very different mechanism when I do a Web-DL release that makes it very unique, a result that no one else could copy exactly. I've also done simple "web-dl's" from Hulu and other VOD services that involved no DRM strip, but the video quality for those are sub par so I don't want to talk about those.

So with all of that to preface my answer to your question, if the twat just re-archived a non-transcoded Web-DL it into a RAR, I'd be able to tell it was mine. If it was remuxed though... well you wouldn't be able to definitively tell. On a personal note, I wouldn't really care if someone took a release I did and put their name on it; I would care if a release I did was distorted in a negative way and put back out with my name on it, or someone released something using my name and it was terribly done. In my view, release names are a branding, a marker to recognize the quality of work that is involved, e.g. Immerse means it will be utter crap while 2HD consistently does a pretty decent job under time constraints. The time and meticulous detail I put into my encodes establishes a certain level of qualified respectability, and I'd rather the work be falsely claimed by another than have the label ruined.

Just remember that I'm not defending this meck90 in any respect, I haven't personally looked at any of his stuff yet, nor do I feel an interest in what I've now seen and heard (tainted is the word). I think I worded this so carefully this time that I can't possibly be mistaken. So hope you had a good read.

That's why some water mark the video Not on WEB-DL's (they might) but I do not download WEB-DL's enough...but I know on some P2P stuff, there video is marked and in some instances, video to, and those would be "rough" to remove. And some groups do re-encode the video and audio..not always but sometimes...so that would be another sign, also it would be very easy to "tag" the video to, say, in a locked comment in the properties or even embedded in the video that would say "SOL", and unless you know what your looking for this also is something of note. Just because you would run through a new muxing process (which all it would do is copy it bit by bit, since your not changing anything) I do not believe CRC values would change.

I don't have a method on hand to calc CRC values, but I found it interesting to have the same filesize and yet have a different ed2k hash...