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Re:Academic Torrents: A distributed system for sharing enorm... by wodenokoto on Monday August 29, 2016 @01:25PM (#12383487)
A lot of these "data sets" appears to be coursera courses. I'm not sure if those are legal to redistribute. It also clutters the browse function since a lot of results aren't data sets
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Re:Academic Torrents: A distributed system for sharing enorm... by Inthenameofmine on Monday August 29, 2016 @06:20PM (#12385925)
Archive.org is now legally providing the coursera videos. So it should be legal to distribute this way as well.
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Re:Academic Torrents: A distributed system for sharing enorm... by ieee8023 on Thursday September 01, 2016 @02:51PM (#12407890)
This is fixed! We added a new category! http://academictorrents.com/browse.php?cat=7
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