In Reply to: actually I don't think this is the reason posted by tunenut on May 8, 2006 at 19:21:28:
I don't download ripped DVDs so I have no personal experience with this; however, it's my understanding that ripped DVDs are typically transcoded into another format (VCD, divX, etc.) which further compresses the data (by throwing bits away), thus making for a much smaller download.
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- I don't think that's correct - racerguy 10:26:33 05/09/06 (1)
- sometimes yes, sometimes no - tunenut 10:34:07 05/09/06 (0)