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Why FitGirl won't die: The repacker millions of gamers depend on in an age of surveillance (www.tbsnews.net)
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[-] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Here’s a made up example. Suppose you have a choice between compressing a game:

  • to 10 GiB, and it takes 2min to unpack it in a certain machine
  • to 3 GiB, and it takes 8min to unpack it in a certain machine

The download size difference of 7 GiB only costs me another 60-80s to download as long as the Steam servers are serving well. So funny enough the first option would be better for me.

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