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3.5 GB takes a long time on the current connection. What am I downloading?

A 38min documentary. Sorry about the size, I promise it's not borring. If someone gives me an approprate ffmpeg command I'll transcode it. Preserving the source footage quality was important.

You could perhaps give the title, names of the creators, links to reviews, etc.? As opposed to "trust me, as some random dude on the internet, that you should download this, potentially risk prosecution for pirating, and waste 38m of your time"?

It's in a public folder so there's no need to scare monger with the whole 'prosecution for pirating' bit. Why not just watch it for yourself instead of making things up to attack him?

You could write a one-paragraph description in five minutes. You're one person. You've got maybe 1000 readers, and you're asking them to each spend 38 minutes on faith that your recommendation is good, with no other information given - just a link.

Asking you (not you, nothanksmydude, but jakeogh, who posted the no-info-given link) to spend five minutes, rather than asking us to spend 38 x 1000 minutes... that seems like a pretty reasonable request.

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