PTN is going bling bling!!??

Is there an option to park my account ? i will leave the country next week, some accounts will die some will be deleted, what a drama :lol:
 
RadiancE said:
The .avi file can still be corrupted/damaged, even when the release is rar'ed. Not very often, but it happens.
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Polarbear said:
Of course it happens. That's why I prefer unrared content. No rars, no corrupted rars. You said that you prefer rars because it makes it easier to replace corrupted rars. That doesn't make any sense at all. You prefer a method to replace an error when the method itself is the reason for the error.
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It was actually Polarbear who quoted that mate :)
 
Yes, it does happen on occasion that Scene Releases are upped to sites and when downloaded one of the rar files is corrupted... never happened to you? No?

In instances like that, it's easy enough to use the .sfv file to see which one is corrupt and then grab that part from somewhere else... I'm afraid I won;t think again, I'm happy doing what I'm doing, thanks all the same :)

Polarbear said:
Files are rared because they're spread with multi-threaded FTP transfer within the scene. It has absolutely nothing to do with Bittorrent. The Bittorrent protocol splits every file in chunks anyway. Rared or not.
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I'm fully aware of that, but thanks for the revision...
 
The_Martinator said:
The problem IMO is that the site allows rared movies, which is strange for a movie site IMO. And now the main problem, a large portion of movies are rared there. Which means the ratention is not as good (at least from my POV) as it could have been. Unless you have a lot of really dedicated seedbox users willing to let these movies stay on their boxes for a long, long time...
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Why?

I'm assuming you're aware that numerous media players allow you to view films in their rar'd format? The whole "you need double the room to unpack the release" argument was defunct long ago...

I personally prefer rar'd releases so that if I ever download a corrupted archive I only have 15MB/50MB or whatever else to find elsewhere as opposed to another 700MB/1.4GB (min, not even HD) release elsewhere.
 
t00z said:
It honoustly was just a question. But I guess you accidentally sort of answered it now?
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Sorry, English no good. Me try understand best next time... Now that i read it back it does sound like a question, so it was either my tired eyes or the fact that the question was phrased negatively.

To the point, we did install a few new 'hip' themes, but PtN always had great designs, at least in my opinion. We did add some (ugly?) javascripts for hovering and a bunch more.

I personally want to believe that its more than just that, but you should view the other, hopefully more objective, comments and judge by that. I guess that some users will like it and some won't, but i think that it is definitely a change.
 
Burnsy:

Rar files don't get corrupted during the bittorrent transfer. Bittorrent uses a SHA-1 hash function. It's a secure algorithm. That means you always get exactly the files that the uploader had on his HD when he created the torrent file. Sometimes the scene messed up something and then you have a corrupted rar archive. When you download this file you will of course end up with a corrupted rar archive as well because it was there in the first place. You can't go to another tracker and replace it, because the other tracker has the identical damaged file that you downloaded. Usually a rarfix is released by the group later. That is what you can download to fix the problem. So when rar archives are messed up you even have to download more.

I understand now that you think the archives get corrupted during BT transfer. Again, that's not possible. When you download something via Bittorrent and it's corrupted it was either corrupted in the first place or because of faulty RAM, a faulty HD or some other hardware problems on your side. That can happen with any file, rared or not. All you have to do is download the corrupted part again. The client will do a hash check and only redownload the missing chunks, not the whole movie.

When the uploader unpacks the rar files before he uploads a movie, he can easily see that something is wrong. When he doesn't unrar it he can't. Rar errors happen during the archiving process, not during the bittorrent transfer.

Of course unraring takes time. A 0-day tracker wants fast pretimes, that's why especially automated uploads don't unrar the releases. PTN is a movie tracker, that's why they should give the users an extra service and release the files unrared.

I hope you understand now that you can't replace something that was uploaded corrupted.


I heard the "download one rar piece instead of the whole movie again when corrupted" so many times. I had rar discussions for years and this argument is brought up again and again. It's simply wrong.
 
anyways even i havent spoken in a long time with AbyBeats .. he is really ARSUM coz ... i dont remember why but he is arsum !

xD

ontopic:

PTN v2 is rockin hard sweet :)
 
Burnsy said:
Yes, it does happen on occasion that Scene Releases are upped to sites and when downloaded one of the rar files is corrupted... never happened to you? No?
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Of course it happens. That's why I prefer unrared content. No rars, no corrupted rars. You said that you prefer rars because it makes it easier to replace corrupted rars. That doesn't make any sense at all. You prefer a method to replace an error when the method itself is the reason for the error.
 
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