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Originally Posted by Rommelbommel
Is renaming movie files really such a niche thing that there's no easy-to-use tool for that?
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I have a suspicion that what's going on there is a kind of "security by obscurity". Various anti-piracy organizations got wind of Usenet long ago, and started going after newsgroups hosting content.
De-indentifying the file makes it harder to issue a takedown notice.
As you say, the coding problem of making a table of checksums, comparing it to a list equating checksums to names, and renaming the files shouldn't be hard, but presumably it was first done long ago, was "good enough" and never got improved -- there are a lot of tools like that.