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Re:Rarbg Is No More by OscarTheGrinch on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @01:29PM (#36141057)
I always assume that the movie studios themselves hired some proxies to put out those 61gb files so as to waste everyone's time and bandwidth.
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Re:Rarbg Is No More by zolland on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @03:40PM (#36143114)
This is a proven fact, do not be fooled. For decades Big Movie have been propagating disks out into the public with giant movie files on them.
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Re:Rarbg Is No More by OscarTheGrinch on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @03:54PM (#36143322)
Just like how Big Music decided to fight their pirates by only releasing unlistenable music for the last 20 years.
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Re:Rarbg Is No More by TheCoelacanth on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @08:53PM (#36146438)
They are probably just ripped straight from a bluray without re-encoding.
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