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What really bothers me now are movies being distributed over torrents as a multi-volume RAR. Just...why? The BitTorrent protocol will handle corrupt data and
by Sohcahtoa82 5y ago
What really bothers me now are movies being distributed over torrents as a multi-volume RAR.
Just...why?
The BitTorrent protocol will handle corrupt data and fix it at the segment level. You won't have to redownload an entire file.
Splitting a file into pieces made sense 20+ years ago when connections (Both your physical ISP connection and the logical TCP connection) were unstable, web servers didn't always support download resuming, and software didn't handle graceful unexpected disconnections, but those days are long behind us. We transfer data over encrypted channels that include checksums at the packet level. We use software that can handle disconnections, automatically reconnect, and resume where it left off, not to mention detect when data went bad and re-download just the bad part.
There's just no damn reason to split a 5 GB .mkv into 100 50 MB .rar files which will then take my poor RPi 15 minutes to decompress.
- ryandrake 5y agoI think what we're seeing maybe can be chalked up to distributors adhering to their group's internal rules that just haven't changed since the 90s. Another likely "Scene rule" thing that lasted a long while were movies that were encoded aiming for a particular size. The quality was tuned up down such that every release was exactly 700MB. Why 700MB? Well, turns out there is an ancient form of data storage called CD-ROM which is limited to 700MB, and the rule (or habit) to aim for that size just never changed.
- CRConrad 5y ago> Well, turns out there is an ancient form of data storage called CD-ROM Heh, "ancient"... Geroffmylawn, you punks.