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You are always going to have the fuckwad who removes the tag and then some do it out of complete ignorance with the cleanup filename option in mule. |
Like german holiday makers, the stupid are everywhere.
Watermarking is a bad route to go down, but as long as you don't do a bryce3d intro animation

I can remember the flaming that some poor user got back in the day for doing that, especially since he screwed up muxing that intro onto the movie.
Make sure after your rip has finished (don't know what process you use), you pass it through nandub (video>Direct stream copy, audio>direct stream copy) File>save avi, and then add your tags there in the "Title", "author" and "copyright" fields. That way they appear whatever when someone plays back in a media player like media player classic, windows media player or another player that reads the avi header info
However, here's some tips to reduce or eliminate tag removal.
1) By far the best, adopt TDX style tags. Not only do these convey all the essential information for the downloader, they also look by far the neatest, and people normally know better not to touch them:
Movie.Title.YEAR.[INFO].SOURCE.CODEC-YOURTAG.[cdx].avi
Where [] is optional info. ie.:
Spoon.Fish.1997.DVDrip.Xvid-Ferox.avi
Crack.Whore.Friends.1966.VHSrip.Xvid-Ferox.avi
or
Spoon.Fish.1997.CUT.DVDrip.Xvid-Ferox.avi
Spoon.Fish.1997.UNCUT.DVDrip.Xvid-Ferox.avi
or
Spoon.Fish.1997.DVDrip.Xvid-Ferox.CD1.avi
etc.
2) Don't use wacky characters in the filenames. These seem to go first, especially underscores. I think using spaces in filenames also increases chances some tool will rename it so its best to use . instead of _ or " ".
3) Make sure there's no cryptic stuff, people seem to remove this too, "splatter", "gore", "[Bob Marley]",etc. normally disappear, so just keep it to the TDX and it seems people get the hint not to touch them, and retagging sites know better than to replace them, they just add their tag which aint as bad. Its best just not to go overboard, and keep it movie name and year (they can find out actors/directors from imdb, its not needed). The source (rough quality expectation), the codec (not essential, but it stops the removal of your tag since its appended to it) For horror imo the cut status is essential too. But name, year and source are the bare minimum
That's helped stop my tags getting lost.
Any of you guys got any better tips on the subject?