>>47
Splitting is great for concurrent distribution and integrity checking. Using rars is a simple and effective way to do this which works well with all FTP servers (and most other systems).
That may be true. So split with rar -v20m or whatever, but that's it. There's no need to split all in 1 MB files, add .nfo files on each, then zip them together, then split them again in 20 MB files with 7-Zip with more .nfo files, then tar+gz each one, then add some more .nfo files.
It's a completely harmless tradition.
I agree about ASCII art, it's harmless. The anime scene could use SJIS art too.
Torrents are inherently insecure because everbody knows everybody.
But they scale, and I believe there were some extensions to the protocol to make it harder to detect or eavesdrop.
Also the peer-to-peer aspect doesn't match the semi-centralized big fast server part of the scene.
Which is a bad thing because that doesn't scale. No matter how fast and fat your wires are, you're not going to be able to serve your files to just everyone. And the larger you become, the easier you are to detect. I suppose it's much easier to go unnoticed in a community of file sharers if you're just "85.42.110.75" with a cable line than if you're "The fat nerd's 1 Gbps warez dump" and pay good bucks a month for that upload capacity.
the continuing popularity of xvid rips shows that xvid is far from obsolete.
IMO a technology is not obsolete because nobody uses it, it's obsolete whenever there's something much better available.
>>50
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