Why rar protected torrent files?

Answer 1

"""It would help if your question made grammatical sense. Taking a stab at it anyway: It makes a great deal of sense to compress files that are going to be sent over the internet, to minimize the bandwidth needed to transmit the file. RAR is both fairly common and fairly efficient (it's a bit slower than many other compression algorithms, but generally produces slightly smaller files... this is considered to be a good tradeoff for uses where the file will be compressed only once, but transmitted many times). There are algorithms which are faster and produce smaller files, but they're not as common."""

Speaking of common algorithms, here some research had been done:

http://odzangba.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/gzip-vs-bzip2-vs-lzma/

Compression difference gave me 98K:

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file *

The Big Bang Theory 101.avi.bz2: bzip2 compressed data, block size = 900k

The Big Bang Theory 101.avi.rar: RAR archive data, v1d, os: Unix

ls -l * | awk '{print $5}'

181385840

181286224

echo "("`ls -l * | awk '{print $5}' | tr '\n' '-'`"0)/1024"|bc

97

uname -a

Linux M00nOS 2.6.37-11-generic #25-Ubuntu SMP Tue Dec 21 23:38:53 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

lsb_release -a

No LSB modules are available.

Distributor ID: Ubuntu

Description: Ubuntu natty (development branch)

Release: 11.04

Codename: natty

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More importantly op asked why *protected*, and i add, why password is not provided, but this piece of grammatic, somebody explain please:

cat password.txt

Hello,

This video is password protected to stop automated leeching and detection.

To get your password, Please visit: www.YayMovies.com

We apologize for the inconvenience.

�

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Note: The password is case sensitive. So please enter is exactly as it is displayed.

Have a nice day

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Expectations are ruined, when downloading for days and getting this :(

-juk