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"MP4Moviez doesn't care about the art," Kael explained, his voice gravelly. "He cares about the utility. He compresses the life out of the file. He takes that 4GB masterpiece and crushes it down to 300 megabytes. It fits on your phone. It downloads in minutes. The audio is passable. The video is grainy if you look too close."

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