Why? Oh Why?
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First of all: I'm not saying that I'm downloading movies off the internet - That would be both illegal and immoral, so that option is automatically ruled out. :~ But let's just for arguments sake say that I WAS. In that case, I would definitely wonder: Why the HECK do people still insist on dividing the movies into two CD-size files? :mad: That had its place back before DVD's were cheap enough for everyone to buy... How many people are burning a movie onto CD instead of DVD these days? And wouldn't most people just view it on their computer? And isn't that easier if you've got the whole movie in ONE file instead of having to break in the middle of the movie to start the "CD2" part? :doh: Or is it that these people are incontinent and desperately NEED the toilet break in the middle? But as mentioned: All this is completely irrelevant speculation when you're not illegally downloading movies... :rolleyes:
Why can't I be applicable like John? - Me, April 2011
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Beidh ceol, caint agus craic againn - Seán Bán Breathnach
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Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!
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Just because a thing is new don’t mean that it’s better - Will Rogers, September 4, 1932 -
First of all: I'm not saying that I'm downloading movies off the internet - That would be both illegal and immoral, so that option is automatically ruled out. :~ But let's just for arguments sake say that I WAS. In that case, I would definitely wonder: Why the HECK do people still insist on dividing the movies into two CD-size files? :mad: That had its place back before DVD's were cheap enough for everyone to buy... How many people are burning a movie onto CD instead of DVD these days? And wouldn't most people just view it on their computer? And isn't that easier if you've got the whole movie in ONE file instead of having to break in the middle of the movie to start the "CD2" part? :doh: Or is it that these people are incontinent and desperately NEED the toilet break in the middle? But as mentioned: All this is completely irrelevant speculation when you're not illegally downloading movies... :rolleyes:
Why can't I be applicable like John? - Me, April 2011
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Beidh ceol, caint agus craic againn - Seán Bán Breathnach
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Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!
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Just because a thing is new don’t mean that it’s better - Will Rogers, September 4, 1932 -
First of all: I'm not saying that I'm downloading movies off the internet - That would be both illegal and immoral, so that option is automatically ruled out. :~ But let's just for arguments sake say that I WAS. In that case, I would definitely wonder: Why the HECK do people still insist on dividing the movies into two CD-size files? :mad: That had its place back before DVD's were cheap enough for everyone to buy... How many people are burning a movie onto CD instead of DVD these days? And wouldn't most people just view it on their computer? And isn't that easier if you've got the whole movie in ONE file instead of having to break in the middle of the movie to start the "CD2" part? :doh: Or is it that these people are incontinent and desperately NEED the toilet break in the middle? But as mentioned: All this is completely irrelevant speculation when you're not illegally downloading movies... :rolleyes:
Why can't I be applicable like John? - Me, April 2011
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Beidh ceol, caint agus craic againn - Seán Bán Breathnach
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Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!
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Just because a thing is new don’t mean that it’s better - Will Rogers, September 4, 1932Johnny J. wrote:
Why the HECK do people still insist on dividing the movies into two CD-size files?
I divide them into 12 bits, just to piss off people downloading them illegally.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Johnny J. wrote:
Why the HECK do people still insist on dividing the movies into two CD-size files?
I divide them into 12 bits, just to piss off people downloading them illegally.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
Rage wrote:
I divide them into 12 bits
Ah, come now - admit it, it has nothing to do with that. You're either a smoker, or you're like my wife and need to stop by the fridge every 10 minutes to stock up... :laugh:
Why can't I be applicable like John? - Me, April 2011
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Beidh ceol, caint agus craic againn - Seán Bán Breathnach
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Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!
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Just because a thing is new don’t mean that it’s better - Will Rogers, September 4, 1932 -
First of all: I'm not saying that I'm downloading movies off the internet - That would be both illegal and immoral, so that option is automatically ruled out. :~ But let's just for arguments sake say that I WAS. In that case, I would definitely wonder: Why the HECK do people still insist on dividing the movies into two CD-size files? :mad: That had its place back before DVD's were cheap enough for everyone to buy... How many people are burning a movie onto CD instead of DVD these days? And wouldn't most people just view it on their computer? And isn't that easier if you've got the whole movie in ONE file instead of having to break in the middle of the movie to start the "CD2" part? :doh: Or is it that these people are incontinent and desperately NEED the toilet break in the middle? But as mentioned: All this is completely irrelevant speculation when you're not illegally downloading movies... :rolleyes:
Why can't I be applicable like John? - Me, April 2011
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Beidh ceol, caint agus craic againn - Seán Bán Breathnach
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Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!
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Just because a thing is new don’t mean that it’s better - Will Rogers, September 4, 1932Nay, I want my movies in 100MB chunks to be able to store them!
'I'm French! Why do you think I've got this outrrrrageous accent?' Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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Nay, I want my movies in 100MB chunks to be able to store them!
'I'm French! Why do you think I've got this outrrrrageous accent?' Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Don't be silly - your old floppy disks can't store 100Mb each... :doh:
Why can't I be applicable like John? - Me, April 2011
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Beidh ceol, caint agus craic againn - Seán Bán Breathnach
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Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!
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Just because a thing is new don’t mean that it’s better - Will Rogers, September 4, 1932 -
First of all: I'm not saying that I'm downloading movies off the internet - That would be both illegal and immoral, so that option is automatically ruled out. :~ But let's just for arguments sake say that I WAS. In that case, I would definitely wonder: Why the HECK do people still insist on dividing the movies into two CD-size files? :mad: That had its place back before DVD's were cheap enough for everyone to buy... How many people are burning a movie onto CD instead of DVD these days? And wouldn't most people just view it on their computer? And isn't that easier if you've got the whole movie in ONE file instead of having to break in the middle of the movie to start the "CD2" part? :doh: Or is it that these people are incontinent and desperately NEED the toilet break in the middle? But as mentioned: All this is completely irrelevant speculation when you're not illegally downloading movies... :rolleyes:
Why can't I be applicable like John? - Me, April 2011
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Beidh ceol, caint agus craic againn - Seán Bán Breathnach
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Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!
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Just because a thing is new don’t mean that it’s better - Will Rogers, September 4, 1932 -
Because they fail. Not everyone does this. Usually it's either one big file (and the nfo, of course), or a stupid multipart rar (probably with a password, to waste your time).
harold aptroot wrote:
Not everyone does this.
I know - thank God for that!
harold aptroot wrote:
Because they fail.
My thoughts exactly! Seems like medieval behavior to me... :laugh:
Why can't I be applicable like John? - Me, April 2011
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Beidh ceol, caint agus craic againn - Seán Bán Breathnach
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Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!
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Just because a thing is new don’t mean that it’s better - Will Rogers, September 4, 1932 -
First of all: I'm not saying that I'm downloading movies off the internet - That would be both illegal and immoral, so that option is automatically ruled out. :~ But let's just for arguments sake say that I WAS. In that case, I would definitely wonder: Why the HECK do people still insist on dividing the movies into two CD-size files? :mad: That had its place back before DVD's were cheap enough for everyone to buy... How many people are burning a movie onto CD instead of DVD these days? And wouldn't most people just view it on their computer? And isn't that easier if you've got the whole movie in ONE file instead of having to break in the middle of the movie to start the "CD2" part? :doh: Or is it that these people are incontinent and desperately NEED the toilet break in the middle? But as mentioned: All this is completely irrelevant speculation when you're not illegally downloading movies... :rolleyes:
Why can't I be applicable like John? - Me, April 2011
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Beidh ceol, caint agus craic againn - Seán Bán Breathnach
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Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!
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Just because a thing is new don’t mean that it’s better - Will Rogers, September 4, 1932Tradition? Plus I seem to remember reading somewhere that some file sharing sites have a size limit for free users - it may be that on CD worth fits into the "free" category and larger ones you have to pay to download. Wouldn't know myself, obviously!
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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Tradition? Plus I seem to remember reading somewhere that some file sharing sites have a size limit for free users - it may be that on CD worth fits into the "free" category and larger ones you have to pay to download. Wouldn't know myself, obviously!
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
OriginalGriff wrote:
Wouldn't know myself, obviously!
Of course not! :rolleyes:
Why can't I be applicable like John? - Me, April 2011
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Beidh ceol, caint agus craic againn - Seán Bán Breathnach
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Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!
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Just because a thing is new don’t mean that it’s better - Will Rogers, September 4, 1932 -
First of all: I'm not saying that I'm downloading movies off the internet - That would be both illegal and immoral, so that option is automatically ruled out. :~ But let's just for arguments sake say that I WAS. In that case, I would definitely wonder: Why the HECK do people still insist on dividing the movies into two CD-size files? :mad: That had its place back before DVD's were cheap enough for everyone to buy... How many people are burning a movie onto CD instead of DVD these days? And wouldn't most people just view it on their computer? And isn't that easier if you've got the whole movie in ONE file instead of having to break in the middle of the movie to start the "CD2" part? :doh: Or is it that these people are incontinent and desperately NEED the toilet break in the middle? But as mentioned: All this is completely irrelevant speculation when you're not illegally downloading movies... :rolleyes:
Why can't I be applicable like John? - Me, April 2011
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Beidh ceol, caint agus craic againn - Seán Bán Breathnach
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Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!
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Just because a thing is new don’t mean that it’s better - Will Rogers, September 4, 1932Because doing otherwise would mean reconfiguring the decoder/compressor, and that will cost them a phone call to the 14-year-old whiz-kid who did it for them in the first place.
It's the hacker version of first-line support
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First of all: I'm not saying that I'm downloading movies off the internet - That would be both illegal and immoral, so that option is automatically ruled out. :~ But let's just for arguments sake say that I WAS. In that case, I would definitely wonder: Why the HECK do people still insist on dividing the movies into two CD-size files? :mad: That had its place back before DVD's were cheap enough for everyone to buy... How many people are burning a movie onto CD instead of DVD these days? And wouldn't most people just view it on their computer? And isn't that easier if you've got the whole movie in ONE file instead of having to break in the middle of the movie to start the "CD2" part? :doh: Or is it that these people are incontinent and desperately NEED the toilet break in the middle? But as mentioned: All this is completely irrelevant speculation when you're not illegally downloading movies... :rolleyes:
Why can't I be applicable like John? - Me, April 2011
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Beidh ceol, caint agus craic againn - Seán Bán Breathnach
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Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!
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Just because a thing is new don’t mean that it’s better - Will Rogers, September 4, 1932It depends on how you're getting it I guess. Some sites have file size limits (if you're going for a direct download), so that's a way to get around it. Torrents might be that way because someone got it from one of those sites, and didn't bother to unpack it. Also, some sites offer money based on number of downloads, so if someone has to do multiple downloads to get one file, it's more money for them.
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Don't be silly - your old floppy disks can't store 100Mb each... :doh:
Why can't I be applicable like John? - Me, April 2011
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Beidh ceol, caint agus craic againn - Seán Bán Breathnach
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Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!
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Just because a thing is new don’t mean that it’s better - Will Rogers, September 4, 1932
