General Guidelines
Once you have gotten a drive copied, you are a member of the APC Drive Project. We ask a few simple things as part of your membership in the community:
- Live archive projects such as this one are only successful if kept up-to-date. By getting a drive, you agree to keep in touch, download updates, and keep your drive current. You should also be willing to be added to the distribution tree to copy drives for collectors in your region.
- Please refrain from torrenting shows on the Drive. Tapers often donate shows to the Project with the hope that they not be torrented and we would like to respect those wishes. If someone is requesting APC shows, point them to our project instead! The Drive will periodically torrent certain shows to bring new collectors to the community — we will post updates before doing so.
- Do NOT rename any shows or edit the files in any way. If you want to tag shows or otherwise modify them, please make copies and move them elsewhere. The project depends on the integrity of the files, and all md5 checksums must pass for updates to happen.
- Be excellent to each other.
Submission Guidelines
This project could not have gotten underway without the hard work from tapers and collectors, and cannot hope to survive without the same. If you have taped A Perfect Circle or have shows not currently on the Drive, we highly encourage you to donate them for inclusion.
- You must be allowed to share the show with us. If you are not the taper, make sure the original taper did not mark the show as "NFT" (Not For Trade). We have no desire to breed bad blood in the community.
- Include all information you have for the show — source equipment, transfer method (to help establish generation). Don't worry if the original info file is a mess; as long as the information is there, that's good enough.
- To help avoid corrupted transfers, please create an .md5 checksum file before uploading. "Trader's Little Helper" (a free program) has an easy-to-use .md5 creator.
- The easiest way to contribute is to create a .zip or .rar archive of the show folder and upload it to a file hosting site (we recommend mediafire.com). Then send us the link and it will be included in the next update.