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		wmf on March 4, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: TV piracy groups formally adopt h264 RAR != PAR. You could apply PAR2s to any format, even (gasp) a single file.

Terretta on March 5, 2012 [–]

We do. Our tools use it to help customers in India upload multi gigabyte movies to our storage in the US.

But nobody uses RAR without PAR2, and I was responding to the bewilderment at those using RAR.

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