Topic: Dear people who create batch torrents and then throw in a readme file.
+Anonymous A — 8.7 years ago #49,159
Good job asshole, now nobody can ever complete the torrent because your fucking 100 byte vanity text file prevents the hash check from completing so people who otherwise may have obtained the files via other means such as DDL can only share 99.9% of the torrent. You fucking cocktease.
+squeegee — 8.7 years ago, 44 minutes later[T] [B] #532,110
sorry, most torrent clients let you selectively choose what to dl and what to not
·Anonymous A (OP) — 8.7 years ago, 8 minutes later, 52 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #532,111
@previous (squeegee)
That's irrelevant. If that vanity file isn't there, the chunk it's in will fail the hash check so even though the pertinent file is complete, the part that's lumped with the extra crap can't be shared because it can't pass validation. Even though you have the data, no one else can download it from you. Everyone else ends up with an incomplete file.
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+Anonymous C — 8.7 years ago, 7 hours later, 7 hours after the original post[T] [B] #532,120
> Torrents
Never had that problem with rar-hopping.
+Father Merrin !Uvm54ORbmo — 8.7 years ago, 1 minute later, 7 hours after the original post[T] [B] #532,122
I'm gay lol
·Anonymous A (OP) — 8.7 years ago, 4 hours later, 12 hours after the original post[T] [B] #532,154
@532,120 (C)
Are you referring to DDL rars or torrents where the content is rar'd?
·Anonymous C — 8.7 years ago, 7 hours later, 19 hours after the original post[T] [B] #532,176
@previous (A)
Direct downloads linked to blogspots, and hosted on sites like Mediafire.
·Anonymous A (OP) — 8.7 years ago, 1 hour later, 21 hours after the original post[T] [B] #532,181
@previous (C)
Those tend to go dead because of DMCAs.
·Anonymous C — 8.7 years ago, 10 hours later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #532,193
@previous (A)
I very rarely ran into that problem, doesn't mean it doesn't happen more often now.
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·Anonymous A (OP) — 8.7 years ago, 5 hours later, 1 day after the original post[T] [B] #532,211
@previous (C)
Yeah, it's become a lot more prevalent over the past few years. Almost any DDL that's more than 6 months old has a very good chance of being a deadlink.
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