Comments on: EZTV and MVGroup Join Forces

By: brainiacx

brainiacx — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:59:25 +0000

I just wish they would release each series as one giant torrent rather then single episodes torrents. It would increase the overall seeders and lifespan of the torrent they post.

By: plastik

plastik — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:11:54 +0000

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

By: eazbak

eazbak — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:53:18 +0000

and Wildclaw they also do it for free, without needing to join an exclusive tracker and ne forced into maintaining a ratio…

By: Wildclaw

Wildclaw — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:20:04 +0000

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.

By: ..

.. — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:30:55 +0000

doesn’t EZTV just take releases from LOL/XOR etc and rebrand them.. basically doing nothing other than renaming a directory? *gosh hard*

By: Jason G

Jason G — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:49:18 +0000

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.

By: Zoness

Zoness — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:31:00 +0000

Hey I really like MVgroup’s selection. This merge is probably good :)

By: kooscola

kooscola — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:23:14 +0000

damn this is some good news :D

EZTV RULEZ :D

By: ace hall

ace hall — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:02:18 +0000

no ratio ??? ohhhhhh….yyeeeaaahhhh….
i can feel the burden of guilt for not seeding lightening up inside me.

By: Wildclaw

Wildclaw — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:37:38 +0000

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)