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<blockquote data-quote="jburnette" data-source="post: 155433" data-attributes="member: 24356"><p>First, let me stress that I'm talking about legal content.&nbsp; When you download a movie it is generally in a set of rars.&nbsp; That is how movies get released.&nbsp; It's not necessarily something we do for fun or for storage reasons, it's how the movie is released.&nbsp; I would imagine that initially it was done this way so that if you did have a transfer error (we're talking FTP servers) you would simply have to start back on the rar you left off on.&nbsp; Also, when couriers are racing the releases from site to site, multiple couriers can be transferring the same release to the same site (hence racing).&nbsp; For that to work the release HAS to be split up into a set of files.&nbsp; I would get credit for each rar I transfer and you would get credit for the ones you transferred.&nbsp; So, by the time the release hits sources that the general users have access to it is still in the rar set.&nbsp; This is how things have been done for a long time now.&nbsp; The benefit of streaming out of the rars is that once I have RAR 1 I can begin watching the movie.&nbsp; That, to me, outweighs the fact that I don't have to unrar (although that is nice too).&nbsp; I understand that supporting this is not like waving a magic wand and seeing it appear in the code, I'm just trying to help you understand.&nbsp; I hope that clears it up.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="jburnette, post: 155433, member: 24356"] First, let me stress that I'm talking about legal content. When you download a movie it is generally in a set of rars. That is how movies get released. It's not necessarily something we do for fun or for storage reasons, it's how the movie is released. I would imagine that initially it was done this way so that if you did have a transfer error (we're talking FTP servers) you would simply have to start back on the rar you left off on. Also, when couriers are racing the releases from site to site, multiple couriers can be transferring the same release to the same site (hence racing). For that to work the release HAS to be split up into a set of files. I would get credit for each rar I transfer and you would get credit for the ones you transferred. So, by the time the release hits sources that the general users have access to it is still in the rar set. This is how things have been done for a long time now. The benefit of streaming out of the rars is that once I have RAR 1 I can begin watching the movie. That, to me, outweighs the fact that I don't have to unrar (although that is nice too). I understand that supporting this is not like waving a magic wand and seeing it appear in the code, I'm just trying to help you understand. I hope that clears it up. [/QUOTE]

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