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[Bacchus]

Sorry if this is in the wrong place. i didn't know where to put it.


I joined for only one reason, to download a few movies. Now, I have a problem. I downloaded a movie. It was fine except that it didn't have an extension. I tried to open it in my default video player (VLC) and it didn't work. I tried several others with the same result. I then tried to rename the file by putting ".AVI" behind it. that didn't work either. So, I'm screwed.

I'm an old guy with experience but not much savey. It used to be you could get on a BB and download a zip file and trust it A) worked, B) wasn't poisoned, booby trapped or wasn't loaded with other bs files. Then I had to settle 4 all of that.

Then, a simple zipped program had to be passworded. [Why? Is anyone really worried that a thief is going to steal your stolen program? Does anyone really think that passwording a file and then providing the password in the zip is effective? or will keep out whoever you're trying to keep out?] But again I had to put up with that.

Then, there are the simple downloads that are loaded with ads, and spam, passworded and then broken up into 4 or 5 zips, each passworded (that are provided right in plain sight on the post page, if you're lucky) and now,[SIGH] now, I've got video downloads loaded with ads, and spam, passworded and then broken up into 4 or 5 zips, each passworded, without extensions and no warning or text to let someone know how to play the damned thing. What is the warez world coming to?

Can anyone help me?




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[Progressive]

Well uploaders are trying to earn money from their uploads.  Thats why they are splitting their files. And also they are doing this, so free users can download it easily. I donno why you cannot open the movie, but this codec pack has everything inside: k-lite codec pack. google it and download it. Hope this helps.

[nitroux]

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