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Re:Academic Torrents by bordercases on Monday January 13, 2020 @11:12AM (#22035657)
Aaaand someone has to do the work for computing the index and annotating the hashes.
Re:Academic Torrents by robbya on Monday January 13, 2020 @11:40AM (#22035963)
I think it's worth recognizing that this is a good first step in a hard problem. Hosting many TB of data for free isn't easy. Building an index on top of that data isn't easy either, and it looks like no such index exists today, but if someone decided to build that index they wouldn't need to worry about the hosting portion of the problem. That's a great starting point.