popdrome wrote:Some systems take 1000 as a thousand, some will call 1024 as a thousand, some will need 1048 as a thousend.
WTFF? That is just crazy. I understand what you mean, but it is crazy.
I guarantee ghost has a newer operating system than I do. So he hashes a file and posts it and it shows up as 1.43Gb for him when he posts it and for us when we get it, but for me (and apparently jason181) it is 1.46Gb anyplace OUTSIDE of first sharing it on eMule. Strange, but not a deal-breaking problem. HOWEVER ... if we go to reshare it later, it comes up with a new hash value. It does NOT appear as the same file. (At least here, for this movie.) So now there are two versions on eMule. This makes "resharing" a file pretty f*ing pointless at a later date and/or with a later operating system. They are not resharing, they are posting a new version. That would explain all the people complaining for YEARS that they can not connect to any sharers while other FLM members respond "Whaddya mean? I'm sharing it, dude." People may all be sharing the same file when it is first released, but don't anyone dare temporarily unshare it to make room for something else. All the supposed advantages of eMule have just been wiped out. Every downloader now has a "different version" and they can no longer cooperate in sharing it. Everyone may as well just do what people do with torrents: if they want to reshare a file taken from an old torrent, they simply create a new torrent. What's the difference if it is a new hash anyway!?!?! If this is true, this is a huge and catastrophic flaw for eMule. So all the pro-eMule propaganda I have been reading at FLM is just bullshit?!
MY advice would be: get the file and once you got it, enjoy it, don't worry about it!
That is good advice for life, but then why would I ever upgrade a file? Just enjoy what you have and don't waste time on improvements. I need to go back to watching my videotapes.
Seriously though -- I was under the impression that this was a case where ghost improved the video, then found a problem and improved it again. He has done that before, so it was a reasonable conclusion on my part. So naturally I wanted the best available version. But he said that is not what happened here, and I do not think he is a liar! (Senile maybe, but not a liar.)
Anyway I downloaded his "new" version but am unlikely to watch it for another year. (Too many movies that I have not even watched once.) I have not yet removed it from eMule and my computer and then reloaded it in from my external drive, but that would be the definitive way to test this. If it hashes to a new value, then I should just ignore people asking for reshares unless I want to go to the trouble of posting what is effectively a new version, and being the sole source for that new version.