Your wrong, I bet you have never pred a rip in your life. The pre time is when the command "site pre blah_blah section" is issued using pftp with pre patch or some tool similar. This time is captured by either scripts on the pre site directly or a bot in a site chan. The group doesn’t just decide hmm this time sounds good for an official time lets announce our official time to the word.
The process is the following for TV at least. While a show is airing you have your capper recording the show in segments breaking them up at commercials or some other convenient time. He uploads the segments as he makes them while the show is still on air to a rip/encoding box. Once the show is done and all the segments have been uploaded they are merged and encoded on the remote server. The server is powerful and on a fast connection. This allows the pre time to be earlier since they do not have to wait for the show to end to start uploading. Once its all done on the rip box it is then spread to the groups private directory on there affil sites by a so called "pre whore". Once it’s been completed on all the affil sites and the pre whores is ready he issues a command that moves the rip from the private dir to the public dir all at the same time on all the affil sites. This is called a pre and corresponds to the pre time. Once it’s public, then racers spread the rip to all the other sites as fast as possible and it eventfully works its way down to p2p and torrents.
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