My concern is not with a torrent's name or title, but with the name/title of its video (MP4, FLV, AVI, etc.)--and a question as to why doesn't the uploader of such videos noted (which appear in my download list as an unidentifiable string of numbers and letters attached to an MP4, AVI, or other video file) rename the video a title that's at least somewhat descriptive.

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To the uploaders (and downloaders) of any of the following torrent videos:

240P_400K_60424711
240P_400K_62227661
240P_400K_78514821
240P_400K_79287081
240P_400K_79988901
480P_403K_5218412
480P_600K_49387561
480P_600K_64541191
480P_600K_71736561
480P_600K_72203052

I’m curious, and interested in knowing the answers to a couple of questions regarding these (and similarly entitled) videos and their corresponding torrents.

Without doing a “search” of or opening any files on your computer, and referring to this list of video titles only…

1.   Do you know either the subject of the particular video, or the name of the torrent the video belongs to?

As for me, having downloaded all of these in the last week or so, I can say “No” to both. Even if I had the torrent names randomly listed opposite this list of titles, I couldn’t tell you what video goes to what torrent

My second question is for the uploaders only, and something I’ve decided I’d ask from now on, whenever I come across a torrent with the same issue; and that is…

2.   Why didn’t you rename the video from the cryptic title, to something more descriptive–using the title of the torrent, for example, before you created and uploaded your torrent? ???

Anyway, from now on, I’ve decided to ask, “Why?”

Anyway, I've said that at many occasions: Trying to obfuscate what is shared is useless. As long as members can identify what it is, agents can, too. It just defeats the search and therefore the user experience.

Members fearing that an upload will be taken down, should not upload it in the first place, rather than trying to 'hide' it.

Anyway, we are going here off topic, because the files in the opening post were not of such nature. They look rather than 'original' file names created by a computer system, not giving much information to humans, aside de definition (240p) and bit rate (400K).

Most likely the uploader got them named like that and if he/she is still seeding on that tracker, renaming will make that very complicated.
IMHO it would be easier to work out in the description, what file is what.

Since we have no way of knowing what is likely to get the chop here, some people have taken to disguising what they are posting. Possibly a self-defeating exercise as a nondescript title, an altered file name and a useless picture won't tempt downloads.

Perhaps we could have a forum thread (perhaps with anonymous messages) where posters could tell everyone they have had a torrent deleted because of a DMCA 'request' - I put that in quotes because I see from TorrentFreak some studios have reported themselves for 'violations', some agents have quoted non-existent URLs.

It is hard to read, but not against the rules, because not misleading. Basically only spaces are left out:

pal dvd9 my private go go aka the go doc project dvd

and using capital letters would improve intelligibility:

PAL DVD9 My Private Go Go aka The Go Doc Project DVD

It would really be good if uploading members would follow the Upload Guide:

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5. The Torrent Name should be given a title that reflects the content of the torrent. This might include title, studio, actors, movie number, format and/or resolution. The title inserted here will appear in the Browse Page and on the top of the torrent's description page. Themed Movie torrent names should contain the title and the production year in parentheses ( )
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Even the Rules are not always effectively enforced, due to a lack of members reporting infringing uploads. I think here especially to the collections which are no collection, means missing the "Well defined common theme", or missing the video file list (even not to speak about a human intelligible video list).

Therefore it isn't really time to think about adding Rules.

To take the latest one titled that way:
ntscdvd5iamguiltydvd

Is it so hard to work out that the torrent is an ntsc DVD5 titled I Am Guilty plus the poster always gives an IMDB link so you can check the full listing

100% acceptable since there is an IMDB link.

Is it so hard to work out that the torrent is an ntsc DVD5 titled I Am Guilty plus the poster always gives an IMDB link so you can check the full listing

My question is this: sometimes the torrent title is really unclear, or difficult to de-code. This seems to be happening a lot in the "Themed Movies" category lately. Here's an example:paldvd9myprivategogoakathegodocprojectdvd

https://www.gaytor.rent/details.php?id=60a4810638a18eb71c723d1e2447d4a86b7bcf26c45792c7

If you really look at it, you can see that the rip is from a PAL DVD, but figuring out the name of the flick is harder. What is shown among the pictures are three different movies (I think): My Private Go, The Go Go Project, and Getting Go.

When you're scrolling the torrents, seeing "paldvd9myprivategogoakathegodocprojectdvd" is less than user-friendly. Can we report the torrent to you guys, and request that the torrent title be changed to something more legible? I know you guys are way busy, so perhaps you could put the torrent on hold, and request the poster to edit the name?

Anyway, just wondering.

HOWEVER, it is acceptable for the uploader to leave the official source names as long as he gives a proper description of the torrent.

I'm missing something here. Why would you download a series of torrents if you didn't know what they were?

Yes cannonmc, you are "missing something here"…

As posted in reply #3 from horyna...

I knew what I was downloading based on the torrent titles and descriptions.

What I said was, with only the list of video titles to work from, I haven't a clue as to what the video's subject is.

I love those EB videos with massage etc. and there are sometimes a dozen vids of a guy and some uploaders change the original names which makes it very difficult to restore the original order or avoid duplicates.