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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by another_kbin_addict@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

It’s not that I don’t trust, but I want to understand. What is actually happening and how do these Repack thingies work?

And why are they called that 😂

Thanks in advance.

Edit: thanks so much for the replies all, I think I got it! :)

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[-] rafa@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Repacks are only useful if your internet is from third world countries, like 100Mbps

In Europe repacks are useless

Edit: apparently Germany doesn't seem to have normal speeds

[-] x3i@lemmy.x3i.tech 6 points 1 year ago

You, my friend, have clearly never lived on the German countryside... I know plenty of people there who would probably kill for 100MBit/s

[-] Lobohobo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Me from Germany, living in a populated city, downspeed doesn't get higher than 60Mbits: 💀💀💀

[-] miles@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

lmfao 100mbps is pretty decent in Canada too.

[-] yote_zip@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago

They are still useful if you don't want to source and combine releases+cracks+configurations yourself, or if you want to archive games in a space-efficient manner. I have to imagine most people installing repacks are not just doing so because they're faster to download.

[-] Tabodo@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 year ago

100Mbps is average affordable speed in Australia sadly. The pro big business political party here (LNP) sabotaged our nationwide fibre rollout commenced in 2007. It's taken this bloody long to finally begin undo the deliberate sabotage of our nation's broadband infrastructure done to benefit Rupert Murdoch & the incumbent monopolist Telco.

[-] GregorGizeh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

German infrastructure has been neglected for several decades. In the past, the whole phone grid was nationalized under the Deutsche Telekom, which eventually got spun off into a regular company.

For some insane reason the government basically let them keep almost all of the existing telecommunications infrastructure, giving them a quasi monopoly for many years and the lobbying power to delay upgrading the grid to modern fibre connections in favor of squeezing marginal improvements out of the old copper wires.

Even today the upgrading is going slowly, but at least in cities the connections are reasonably fast, I have about 300 mbits in a fairly small town (about 200k people)

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