All my old sites gone, hoping for replacement

[Burnsy]

Their uploaders used to go round downloading releases/encodes (mine included, not scene) and then change the file names to upload to their own tracker, making it look like they had encoded them for themselves.

I've spotted a few pack torrents that were taken directly from another tracker, renamed to make then look like the uploader's original work, and put on IPT. That I don't sympathize with, but then again packs are basically a bunch of Scene releases with some common theme thrown in.

I think you may have misunderstood mate... this was about 3 years ago maybe, before .avi files were played on standalone players and before DVD's were as cheap as they are now. I used to re-encode .avi files to KvCD format and package them up in a bin/cue file so they could be easily burned to CD and played in most normal DVD players. Seems crazy now, going by the increase in popularity of HD, how cheap DVD's and stand alone XviD players are these days, but a few years a go KvCD's were very popular... Anyway, I used to encode for TUS-KvCD-Group after Hockney/Jamgood etc basically showed me how to make good quality KvCD's and from there I started releasing for them... it was then IPT used to grab the downloads from Demonoid (as that was the tracker we used), then take the files, re-name them to show their own names and then pass the TUS encodes off as their own...

I wasn't on about packs that were being created, effectively I agree with you in that packs are posted and re-posted on God knows how many different trackers... half the time it's hard to tell where they even started (save checking the upload dates/times ).

I think someone's encode is a bit different from a pack

[anon]

I think someone's encode is a bit different from a pack

Mmm, yes, I totally missed your actual point.

[Burnsy]

I think someone's encode is a bit different from a pack

Mmm, yes, I totally missed your actual point.

No harm done, but even though it's all water under the bridge now, I didn't like the attitude of IPT's staff back then and neither me nor IPT will miss the other so it's basically a tracker I wouldn't go near... doesn't mean to say that someone looking to get into/back into torrenting may not benefit from though...