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I remember reading years ago (possibly on Wikipedia's Scene article) that the multipart RAR thing was for faster distribution among the network of servers: Othe
by jomohke 15y ago
I remember reading years ago (possibly on Wikipedia's Scene article) that the multipart RAR thing was for faster distribution among the network of servers: Other servers can start downloading parts before the current server has finished fetching everything.
There's many layers of hierarchy (from the release groups themselves down to the hoopleheads at the bottom) so it speeds up releases significantly.
- yxhuvud 15y agoThat may have been true at one point, but it is a totally obsolete practice due to Bittorrent.
- krakensden 15y agoThis is the upstream of the public bittorrent releases- and they still do lots of strange, unfashionably archaic stuff.
- dfc 15y agoWhat are you talking about? Do you think the cappers are seeding the torrents themselves? A lot things happen before you start leeching from tpb...
- icebraining 15y agoBittorrent isn't used just on public sites; you can use the same technology to share between a very select group.
- methoddk 15y agoIt's still true to this day. Real scene is still done with FXP and then leeched down the food chain to BT/NGz/p2p/etc... Releases are out for hours before they even make it to open user levels. Get it where it's hot, yo.
- glomph 15y ago>hours This is rarely true of most scene releases these days. They will hit private bittorrent trackers often within seconds of preing, and public ones not long after that.
- tomku 15y agoInternal scene transfer was (and still is, afaik) done using FTP servers, often very primitive ones because they had to evade detection on hacked servers. When you're racing a large game or movie from one server to another, the last thing you want is for a random disconnect to ruin it 90% of the way through, or even worse, to finish it and find that the CRCs don't match because of random corruption. It also means that you can race from multiple sources for higher speed, and like you said, use a server as a source before it's actually done downloading.
- dfc 15y agoFXP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_eXchange_Protocol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_eXchange_Protocol
- gradstudent 15y agoPfft. Pro couriers don't even bother with FXP. A shell account on a fast European box and mget/mput are the weapons of choice.
- dfc 15y agoFirst of all no "pro courier" is going to be on HN bragging about his "weapons of choice." Second of all FXP was the protocol of choice back in the day(the time period the parent post was referring to). Thirdly, I remember when telix and minicom where "the weapons of choice."
- gradstudent 15y agoHave you ever traded? If so, where, and for whom?
- shibboleth 15y agoex-pHASE courier here. You must be referring to 0day couriering. We use a custom pftp w/ rel server to chain our FXP routes.