Comments on: Unpack RAR Archives before you release a Torrent

By: EJay

EJay — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 19:10:00 +0000

Ryche: FUCK the “Scene”!

By: SailorMoonFanGuy

SailorMoonFanGuy — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 05:49:22 +0000

Thank you, Ernesto, for this desperately-needed article! I'm glad to see from these comments that there are others out there, too, who see the light. I'm with David–fed up with corrupt archives! Everything compressed ends up corrupt at some point; I'd rather wait a little longer downloading the original file uncompressed than wait TWICE AS LONG having to re-download a "compressed" version three times before I can get it without corruption! And I feel REALLY sorry for those of you who have to go through this re-downloading with miserable 56k dial-up connections!! Already been there, done that, I sympathize with you!!

By: Sven

Sven — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:06:17 +0000

I think that rar format is used to reduce size in sending any information across a large expanse of people. What annoys me is that these torrent programs are designed to share files over a global area, So why bother putting a password on a file that is supposed to be shared and give people reason to not trust these files as they are designed to be shared….

By: BSDguy

BSDguy — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:21:51 +0000

I totally agree, those “scene” kiddies are a bunch of tards for use Rar.
Real men use tarballs like Gzip. Damn win-lammers, they must die!

By: RoBz

RoBz — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:45:43 +0000

Agreed, get rid of rar’s and zip’s in bit torrent.

By: RedMatrix

RedMatrix — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:18:14 +0000

I agree with the article/essay.

The Scene can release how they wish, but they don’t release .torrent files. Who uploads .torrent files in RAR format? Second-Hand people get the RAR files from The Scene, and make it a .torrent.

THOSE people should unpack first and then make a .torrent file. If it’s crap, torrent sites have comments too.

Sometimes a torrent claims to be “an image” but doesn’t say if it’s .ISO, .UIF, .NRG, .IMG…etc. If the unpacked image file were the source of the torrent, then we’d all know.

By: Mog

Mog — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:56:32 +0000

And in the year 2008 with a common 8mps download speed downloaders still bitch about wasting hours as opposed to the days we waited for a file 10 years ago.. RAR’ing may cut off a couple mb’s but in the time it takes for you to take a piss, the difference of an unpacked file could be downloaded already. It’s not as if every torrent you download must be ready within the hour. There is no point to RAR files that are generally already under a good compression. And if not, the time it takes to download the extra bit for the unpacked torrent file is minuscule. I’d much rather spend 10 more minutes waiting for a file to finish, then 10 unpacking the file with the grim hope it’s even the file you wanted in the first place.
I’m sure it’s also less work/time to upload a file or two, than RARing and uploading them.
Do the simple, tried and true. Make a nonRAR torrent. It’s simpler for us, and simpler for you.

By: yep

yep — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 05:13:44 +0000

I read about half way through the comments…

I think that rar’ing the release at this time serves a purpose. You can’t download parts of the release and skip things you don’t want.

becuase you have to download the entire release everyone seeds everything… downloading is faster for people who want the whole thing and not just that one song (or whatever)…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 19:12:11 +0000

Belligerent Engine, that’s not correct. The sources of unrar are available and it works on even more obscure platforms than yours.

Regarding RAR itself. It has no purpose on any modern P2P network because all of them support resuming, swarming, checksuming and more. If the self-announced elite insists on using outdated technology like FTP, so be it but everyone with a brain should know better.

There are of course exceptions where archives like ZIP/RAR/TAR are suitable like software source files where you have large number of files which are rather useless on their own.

I think RAR etc. are also used because some early bittorrent implementations had issues with torrents that contained many files because they’d try to open each of these files even though there’s usually a limit of a few hundred (or even less) open files. Nowadays these just open the files they really need to access at any time.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:30:04 +0000

SCRU – The Scene Release Unpacker
http://www.tmoogle.com/scru