EZTV and MVGroup Join Forces
Written by Ben Jones on June 05, 2008A month after the tragic death of it’s founder, Merrin, MVGroup is one step closer to his aim of ‘educating the world via p2p’. Today, EZTV partners MVGroup in sharing documentaries via bittorrent.
When we interviewed Merrin in April, we didn’t think it would spark a joint effort between EZTV - the leading TV-torrent distribution group, and MVGroup. However, as of today, MVGroup’s torrents will now be distributed by EZTV on their website, and IRC channel, in addition to MVGroup’s regular methods.
It seems to be an agreement that benefits both sides. MVGroup gets the exposure of EZTV’s fanbase, and several new seeders. EZTV on the other hand, expand their list of shows. This is particularly important at this time of year when most US shows have finished for the season, leaving them light on torrent releases, although EZTV admins claim this was incidental, and not planned.
MVGroup admins told TorrentFreak “[we] would like to take this opportunity to thank EZTV in helping us continue our founders legacy, to spread high quality educational material via p2p, to everyone, everywhere, for free and with no ratio.”
With the first shared releases out and available, we shall see with interest how well this works, especially if MVGroup sourced shows (what should we call them? MVTV? EZMV?) appear on our new Top TV shows lists.
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i want to put beef in your taco
Torrent sites joining forces… WoW !!!
How will they split ad revenue?
We don’t not have ads, nor request any money from mvgroup’s donations.
Its so nice seeing everyone getting on:-)
I’m excited about this :)
Just the beginning
‘educating the word via p2p’
Is that meant to be ‘world’?
@ DeathCharge9, everyones allowed a typo ;)
Like SantaBJ and novaking everyone at MVG is excited by this coming together, spreading torrents is one of the most time consuming tasks a releaser has to undertake. JumpinS, bless him, has tried to automate as much of this as possible but when someone comes along and asks if we’d like to do something like this you’d have to be stupid to say no.
I look forward to seeing the results.
Great news… =]
Right on, the more the merrier.
Awsome..=) this is a good idea! more shows to spend your freetime on, now am really gonna be anti social!:P
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH FUCK THE IGNORANT, FUCK THE WORLD!
“what should we call them? MVTV? EZMV?”
Seems to be ‘MVGroup’
I’d have settled for MVG ;)
I hate to be mr. negative but what does ether of the parties get out of this? If not money.
I love MVG and I thought they where doing fine (100k+ users), as fore EZTV I never used there “service” (which I’m sure i great)but I know a lot of people do.
Are EZTV a reencode (or even renaming) group or do they use original sources?
Paradox, EZTV is probably by far the biggest distributor of tv shows via bittorrent.
No, EZTV doesn’t encode, nor do they rename. They take scene releases, unpack them and distribute the main video file via bittorrent to the masses in the simplest manner possible.
As for what they get out of it? Probably what many people into filesharing get out of it. A genuine pleasure of sharing information with the rest of humanity. The knowledge that every copy distributed will be watched by someone, therefore increases its real value to society as a whole. (although in some cases the market value may drop)
no ratio ??? ohhhhhh….yyeeeaaahhhh….
i can feel the burden of guilt for not seeding lightening up inside me.
damn this is some good news :D
EZTV RULEZ :D
Hey I really like MVgroup’s selection. This merge is probably good :)
This is so great. I always thought EZTV needed more educational stuff. Sure adding nova and the universe was good, but not great compared to what good shows they have missed.
doesn’t EZTV just take releases from LOL/XOR etc and rebrand them.. basically doing nothing other than renaming a directory? *gosh hard*
EZTV doesn’t remove the group name from file names. At most they add their own tag also (and not always at that). Anyway, if release groups were so interested in marking their releases they should really encode it directly into the video as filenames simply aren’t a reliable way to keep the info. (although there is probably a stupid scene rule against that)
Anyway, I think you are being fairly underestimating in what work it is to do what they do. If I lived in the US, I could cap a TV show, encode it and then upload it onto p2p. All by myself. Sure, others could probably do it with better quality and if I were to miss a show I wouldn’t have a backup.
What I couldn’t do however, is to provide reliable seeds, a decently design website, an irc channel, and large amount of different shows and make all of that availible to tens of thousands of people under a known name.
I am not saying that encoding is no work. I am simply saying that distribution is just as much if not more work.
Personally I mostly use a private site that is equally good (if not better), but I recognize the great work that eztv has been doing for the last few years, providing the public with a great service.
and Wildclaw they also do it for free, without needing to join an exclusive tracker and ne forced into maintaining a ratio…
These were two of the sites that I frequented the most. Now I can get all the releases from one source. I approve of this merger :D
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