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Re:Scientific research piracy site hit with $15M fine by ClassyJacket on Sunday June 25, 2017 @08:45PM (#14633142)
Buying a bunch of disk space isn't impossible. What I don't have is unlimited downloads.
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Re:Scientific research piracy site hit with $15M fine by Asooka on Monday June 26, 2017 @04:17AM (#14634985)
Buy VPS hosting in a place with sane ISPs and unlimited data, then torrent at a responsible rate of like 1MB/s, max ~50 connections. It will take about 694 days to torrent the 60TB at that rate. If you can afford to pay for better bandwidth, say 10MB/s sustained 24/7, it will take only 2-3 months. BitTorrent being what it is, if enough of us torrent it, we should have all chunks between us much sooner than the estimated 2 years, so even when SciHub goes down, we'll be able to piece everything together.
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