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I always assume that the movie studios themselves hired some proxies to put out those 61gb files so as to waste everyone's time and bandwidth.

This is a proven fact, do not be fooled. For decades Big Movie have been propagating disks out into the public with giant movie files on them.

Just like how Big Music decided to fight their pirates by only releasing unlistenable music for the last 20 years.

They are probably just ripped straight from a bluray without re-encoding.