Is [url]www.covers.to[/url] down?

[boomer1027]

Anyone been able to access covers.to lately? Is it just down for maintenance or has it been permanently shut down (hope not!)?

[dvdguy4]

I was asking the same thing for the past 4 days.

[lordsmurf]

"MYSQL error"

That is so fake.

I never found much on that site. Too much foreign stuff or things grabbed from the low quality cdcovers.cc site.

[boomer1027]

"MYSQL error"

That is so fake.

I never found much on that site. Too much foreign stuff or things grabbed from the low quality cdcovers.cc site.

IMO, covers.to had the best scans available on the net. They had both labels and covers, and had ultrahigh resolutions (usually easy to find 3000x3000 dpi scans). I'm sorry to see it go ...

[Noahtuck]

"MYSQL error"

That is so fake.

I never found much on that site. Too much foreign stuff or things grabbed from the low quality cdcovers.cc site.

IMO, covers.to had the best scans available on the net. They had both labels and covers, and had ultrahigh resolutions (usually easy to find 3000x3000 dpi scans). I'm sorry to see it go ...

Yeah, LS must be thinking of something else
I have also DLed ton's of stuff from there and not one would ever be found on cdcovers.cc, way too large and hi-res for that dump.

But alas, i have seen this happen many, many, many, many times before and they are always back. don't know why they vanish for a day or two but.... and the last time i was there was friday or saturday.

[dvdguy4]

I prefer this site if you want hi-res covers. They dont have alot but they do have the best quality covers.You do need to register and lately theyve been on and offline but usallly theyre back during the evening hours and they also have an irc. Check it out if you need to.
http://www.hirescovers.com/gallery/index.php?cat=2

[dmagic1]

I was wondering what happened to my favorite cover site too. First Daprogger now this. omg

[scubasteve2365]

While we are on the subject

Does anyone get a grainy look when they open high res labels in Epson's Print CD??

Ill download a high res, open it in photoshop and itll look fine. Open the hi-res in PrintCD, and it gets a grainy look to it.

I reduce the resolution in photoshop, then open the reduced resolution in PrintCD and it looks fine.

Its as if PrintCD cant handle the high resolution or something.

The blur effect in the properties of the picture on PrintCD help. But Id rather not blur the picture to reduce the grainy look

[drjtech]

http://www.covers.to is back up!

The last forum entry is from 6 Oct, so no reason for the outage has been posted yet.

-drj

[lordsmurf]

Yeah, LS must be thinking of something else

No, thinking of that one. Just a bunch of movies, foreign stuff, and a lot of mediocre scans. Sure it may "say" it's high res, but open that high res file and it's blocky or blurry. See, I'm not interested in movies, which is what most of that is. And the few times I was interested in movies, all they had was non-English stuff. Not a very useful site for me.

[dvdguy4]

It might be up but its still taking forever to fully load. Anyone else having the same problem?

[ROF]

I agree with LS. The quality of the covers is not all that good. You can get better cover art by using your own scanner or visiting your local library and using their color copier with your covers. If you bought a movie without a cover, it's probably stolen.

[e404pnf]

...If you bought a movie without a cover, it's probably stolen.

Or from the "Bargin Bin". Most high street retailers will sell DVDs without any of the packaging at a reduced rate. In my student days I used to work in one - its amazing the number of dumb-asses that steal empty DVD cases. Every now again we'd find them outside in the gutter.

[ROF]

...If you bought a movie without a cover, it's probably stolen.

Or from the "Bargin Bin". Most high street retailers will sell DVDs without any of the packaging at a reduced rate.

A DVD sold without packaging in a retail outlet is stolen. This isn't uncommon but should be reported to the proper authorities.

[dvdguy4]

I go to http://covers.to/ because my little daughter likes to take out my covers and tears them up.

[e404pnf]

...If you bought a movie without a cover, it's probably stolen.

Or from the "Bargin Bin". Most high street retailers will sell DVDs without any of the packaging at a reduced rate.

A DVD sold without packaging in a retail outlet is stolen. This isn't uncommon but should be reported to the proper authorities.

This simply isn't true I used to work for a very large multinational retail outlet that sells DVDs. Should the packaging become damaged, stolen or just lost the DVD was sold without it at a reduced price. The cost of returning the unpackaged DVD or requesting a replacement is simply too great to be financially viable. I agree if you buy unpackaged DVDs at your local car boot sale or market they are possibly stolen but even then its impossible to be 100% sure.

[ROF]

Without a UPC Coding the disc is considered stolen in the retail market. It doesn't matter what or who you worked for, by selling those discs they were violating the law(selling stolen goods).

[canadateck]

Without a UPC Coding the disc is considered stolen in the retail market. It doesn't matter what or who you worked for, by selling those discs they were violating the law(selling stolen goods).

Bigest load I heard. No UPC= Stolen...

[lordsmurf]

Without a UPC Coding the disc is considered stolen in the retail market. It doesn't matter what or who you worked for, by selling those discs they were violating the law(selling stolen goods).

This is stupid and wrong.
One of my favorite comic books (Mickey Mouse) doesn't have UPC codes.
There is no law that requires UPC codes.

[ROF]

Then why has the US Weights and Measures fined Walmart recently for invalid/improper UPC Coding? If it's not required why does the government get involved in ensuring they are properly affixed to all products sold?

[canadateck]

Somtimes you even have to send the UPC "cut out" to get a Rebate.

[ROF]

That where the issue of UPCs becomes important. Do you own the product or does the person who received a rebate for purchase of the product own it? Buying a retail product without a UPC is just like buying a stolen item. You may disagree, but there are rules and regulations reguarding the placement of UPCs on retail items.

[canadateck]

So after I send it in, I'm in possession of Stolen goods?

Makes no sense. Just like the mattress Tag thing...

[junkmalle]

That where the issue of UPCs becomes important. Do you own the product or does the person who received a rebate for purchase of the product own it? Buying a retail product without a UPC is just like buying a stolen item. You may disagree, but there are rules and regulations reguarding the placement of UPCs on retail items.

Link please? All I could find was articles like this:

http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2005/09/12/story8.html?jst=s_cn_hl

Which is about fines for UPC scanned prices that don't match the prices posted on the shelves.

I buy fruits and vegetables all the time without UPC codes.

And what about this:

http://www.viphawaii.com/food/upc_information.html

"Although the Universal Product Code (UPC), or bar code, is not a legal requirement of government, most retailers have established it as a requirement."

[ROF]

So after I send it in, I'm in possession of Stolen goods?

Makes no sense. Just like the mattress Tag thing...

I agree on the mattress tag thingie, but what I meant was if you buy a product which has a rebate attached, yet the UPC and associated rebate advertisement is removed, do you own the product or does the person who removed the UPC and sent in the rebate own it? Alot of times you find street vendors selling products with the UPC Code cut away from the packaging. Why do they do this? Answer that I think the legality of UPCs in the retail marketplace will solve itself. As to finding out the rules, visit your local W&M District location or even your local library to learn what the W&M does and how it effects those things you purchase in the retail outlet.

[dvdguy4]

I just want to know how this post has gone from to the site being down to legal issuses.. Its just a cover site to backup your covers. Ive noticed that alot of post recently have gone from something little to everything legal.

[Noahtuck]

I just want to know how this post has gone from to the site being down to legal issuses.. Its just a cover site to backup your covers. Ive noticed that alot of post recently have gone from something little to everything legal.

Damn!!! 20 post's later i was still laughing at how fast EVERYONE was so quick to jump to the conclusion it was gone forever when i said i have seen it go down MANY, MANY, MANY, MANY times for a day or so.... and i come today and look and

Anyone else having a problem with their search ??
I can get to the sections directly now but the search engine seem's to be down...
Oh well... manual search

Without a UPC Coding the disc is considered stolen in the retail market. It doesn't matter what or who you worked for, by selling those discs they were violating the law(selling stolen goods).

Bigest load I heard. No UPC= Stolen...

[Jester700]

Without a UPC Coding the disc is considered stolen in the retail market. It doesn't matter what or who you worked for, by selling those discs they were violating the law(selling stolen goods).

This is stupid and wrong.
One of my favorite comic books (Mickey Mouse) doesn't have UPC codes.
There is no law that requires UPC codes.

I have a Russian issue from 1990 or so. I'd have to dig it up, but I wonder if THAT has a UPC code?

[lordsmurf]

I buy fruits and vegetables all the time without UPC codes.

I almost snorted my drink when I read that.

[ultraman36]

I dont usually pay for site but i paid $12.00 to join this site for a year
http://www.generetic.org/

It was worth it people with very great photoshop skills make their own covers(very high res that they are broken in several rar/zipped) files)

customcdlabels.com has some good labels for the actual dvd but it down alot