TV piracy groups formally adopt h264

Re:TV piracy groups formally adopt h264 by tvon on Sunday March 04, 2012 @04:08PM (#3663995)

I believe it's for non-torrent sharing methods such as NNTP (since you can't, I guess, upload hundreds of megabytes of data to a newsgroup in a single post).

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Re:TV piracy groups formally adopt h264 by methoddk on Sunday March 04, 2012 @08:08PM (#3664873)

This has nothing to do with NNTP, BT, P2P. All FXP to distributed FTP servers. The RARs are split so that if one server in the farm goes down, the whole release isn't corrupted. Same for transferring the data.

"Racers" move the els to multiple servers. Split RARs allow for multiple people to be moving parts of the same els at the same time.

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Re:TV piracy groups formally adopt h264 by dfc on Sunday March 04, 2012 @05:17PM (#3664297)

Everything about the scene is for non-torrent sharing (atleast public / largescale distribution). The scene groups hate public torrent sites/users.

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Re:TV piracy groups formally adopt h264 by tonfa on Sunday March 04, 2012 @06:00PM (#3664474)

I don't think there are messages with more than 500k on NNTP, a single RAR file won't fit (so theoretically you could encode a 700M file in yenc).

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Re:TV piracy groups formally adopt h264 by cultureulterior on Sunday March 04, 2012 @04:37PM (#3664113)

That's why you use yenc. Personally, I believe it's to do with now bypassed limitations of parity programs.

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