@guandanarah:
People creating torrets merging multiple files (pictures and videos) into a single huge video to force people to download the whole torrent instead of sharing the individual files so anyone can download what they want.
This shouldn't be allowed! It's a loophole to increase the uploader's upload ratio.
IMHO it depends on how long the original videos they downloaded were. If the original videos were only, say for example, 5 minutes long, then I don't see why they shouldn't be joined into a single video (let's say 90 to 120 minutes?).
On the other hand, for non-porn, etc., tv episodes or original film shorts (like some in those short film collections on DVD) where the original short is only 15 minutes or so, and each short is unrelated to the next one, then those should be left as is. Some people upload the original individual short films anyway, so I see no point to joining together al the shorts in a collection (like the Boys On Film series, etc.).
What irks me are when I see someone who has done a rip of a DVD, for example, and a 2 hour movie has been split into separate video segments…apparently according to the individual VOB files on a DVD. That's just bad ripping.
That should be forbidden here...if a movie (I can't think of any specific examples at the moment) hasn't been ripped as one single video, then it shouldn't be uploaded. Period. No matter what some may think of that (and I've seen some people comment here about "At least they uploaded it", etc.).
Things like that should not be broken up...they should be kept in their original whole, entire form...not segmented.
Except for the examples you gave...the one thing I disagree with are photos (non-video images) which have been turned into a video slideshow...IMHO that's pointless. Just upload the original JPG (or whatever format) as they originally were...not joined into a video slideshow.