File Sharing Scene Tags Dictionary

0-DAY

0-day, pronounced "Zero Day" or even sometimes "Oh Day", basically means "new." The term originates from the (illegal) warez scene, but is now a common term in the exploit trading scene.

Here's how it works: A game or an exploit released yesterday is 1-day. If it was released a full week ago, it is 7-day.

0-day refers to exploits released today and exploits that have not yet been released.

An exploit can be 0-day to you because it was just publicly released, but two-months old to members of the group that coded the exploit.

ASPECT RATIO TAGS

It's *WS* for widescreen (letterbox) and *FS* for full screen.

DUPE

A dupe is quite simple, there's no reason for something to exist twice without proper reason.

INTERNAL

When a release is INTERNAL, there can be several reasons. To prevent from being dupe'd on it, classic DVD groups will do so a lot. To prevent a lower quality theatre rip from lowering the reputation of the group or due to the amount of rips done already.

An INTERNAL release is available as per normal on the groups affiliate sites, but they can't be traded to other sites without request from the site operators. Though some INTERNAL releases still trickle down to IRC or Newsgroups depending on the title and the popularity.

A group may also go "internal" like Centropy did. This means the group will only release films to their members and site operators. This is in a different context to the usual definition.

LIMITED

A LIMITED film means it was shown only in a few theatres, generally opening in less than 250 theatres. These are usually smaller films (such as art house films).

NUKED

There are various reasons to a NUKED film. Individual sites may nuke a film for breaking their rules (they may not allow Telesync's for example). But a global nuke may also occur if something is extremely wrong with it. For example missing 20 minutes of soundtrack, CD2 is another film or game etc. People trading it across sites will lose their credits.

Nuked films can still reach peer-to-peer file sharing networks or Usenet, but it's better to check first why it was NUKED. A group may request a nuke as well, if they realise something is wrong with the release.

Here's a list of common reasons a film (mainly DVD Rips) can be nuked:

» BAD A/R : Bad aspect ratio, i.e. people appear too fat/thin.
» BAD IVTC : Bad inverse Telecine; the process of converting frame rates was incorrect.
» INTERLACED : Black lines on movement as the field order is incorrect.

PROPER

Due to scene rules, whichever group releases (for example) the first Telesync of a film has won that race. But if the quality of the Telesync is fairly poor and if another group has another Telesync in higher quality or the same source in higher quality then they may release a PROPER. The tag is added to prevent it from being duped. This is the most subjective tag in the scene, and a lot of people will generally argue whether the PROPER is better than the original release. A lot of groups will release PROPERs just out of desperation of losing the race. A reason for the PROPER should always be included in the .NFO file included.

RECODE

This is a previously released version, usually filtered through TMPGenc to remove subtitles, fix colour etc. Whilst the quality can be better then the original, it's not looked upon highly as groups are expected to obtain their own sources.

REPACK

If a group released a "bad" rip, they may release a REPACK without the problems it had before.

SUBBED

If a VCD is released as SUBBED, it usually means it has hard-encoded subtitles throughout the whole movie. These will usually be in Malaysian, Chinese, Thai, etc. Sometimes there can even be two different languages, taking up quite a large amount of the screen of course.

SVCD on the other hand supports switch able subtitles which can be switched on or off. If this is the case, it will be mentioned in the .NFO file if included.

STV

Straight To Video or STV means it was never released in theatres. And for that reason a lot of sites do not allow these.

UNSUBBED

If there was a SUBBED release of a film in the past, an UNSUBBED release may be released.