@jwz I doubt the Scene Standards have been updated in a while, but that'd be an instant nuke in the Old Days.

@jwz that’s legitimately enough to get a release group tagged with a score of like -9999 so nobody’s automations pick them up, assuming these assholes aren’t naming their files to spoof another release group

@jwz if its any consolation, the window between new torrents being ai garbage and the new media they pull from not yet being ai garbage is gonna be like a couple years tops so in big picture terms the fraction of media lost by only using magnets from pre 2025-ish is not too bad

@jwz Perhaps it was a pirated pirate created by the federation as a decoy?

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Maybe it's not pirates but privateers, aka pirates in it for capitalist gains

@jwz Ah yes, AI upscaling - another hyped application of this technology that turns out to be absolute worthless shite in the real world...

@jwz wtf

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Looking for anime on Internet Archive is one hell of a trip.
- crudely compressed, hardsubbed and watermarked sludge pulled from pirate streaming sites
- full-blown DVD ISOs
- 20 GB (or larger) rips of chewed-up fansub tapes