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Since the original group "retired," the name has been kept alive by unofficial entities.

: The group was started in 2010 by Yiftach Swery , a college student from Auckland, New Zealand.

Users with or limited bandwidth. Archivists looking to maximize hard drive space .

The primary appeal of YIFY releases is their extreme efficiency. Using advanced compression techniques like x264, the group mastered the art of delivering 720p and 1080p Blu-ray rips at roughly one-tenth the size of a standard rip (often fitting a full HD movie into ~700MB to 1.5GB). This made them the gold standard for: