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Re:TV piracy groups formally adopt h264 by Terretta on Sunday March 04, 2012 @05:42PM (#3664393)
> last I checked, RAR doesn't offer a compelling advantage in performance, compression, or error correction

May be time to check again:

http://www.quickpar.org.uk/AboutPAR2.htm

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Re:TV piracy groups formally adopt h264 by wmf on Sunday March 04, 2012 @05:56PM (#3664452)
RAR != PAR. You could apply PAR2s to any format, even (gasp) a single file.
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Re:TV piracy groups formally adopt h264 by Terretta on Sunday March 04, 2012 @08:54PM (#3665031)
We do. Our tools use it to help customers in India upload multi gigabyte movies to our storage in the US.

But nobody uses RAR without PAR2, and I was responding to the bewilderment at those using RAR.

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