Unpack RAR Archives before you release a Torrent

Here’s a great essay explaining why people shouldn’t put RAR archives in torrents. They are useless and they make “selective downloading” impossible.

Found at The Piratebay

Why RAR archives do not belong in torrents
It has become a common practise to create torrents which contain umpteen RAR files, often in the form of a Release from The Scene, instead of simply directly adding the actual files to be distributed.
Though some might think this practise lends a bit of underground mystique to the common BitTorrent world, that is the only thing that might possibly be said in its favour. Others think the use of RAR solves some real problems. The truth is it adds nothing but nuisance
and even renders a useful feature of BitTorrent clients useless.
This essay aims to explain why it is a good […]

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