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		vkjv on Dec 12, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You can take down Pirate Bay, but you can’t kill t... Also, clumsy as it may have been, the practice of splitting large files into volumes of small RAR files helped.

josefresco on Dec 12, 2014 [–]

I remember the agony of having downloaded 50+ separate RAR files via dial-up and having one or several of the RAR files corrupted or missing.

mlrtime on Dec 12, 2014 | [–]

and that is why we now have sfv and par2

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