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Re:3x new books added to the Pirate Library Mirror by JadeNB on Sunday September 25, 2022 @03:51PM (#32975326)
> One copy in memory can serve millions on your website.

But they have to download it, and you might not have the bandwidth to service millions of downloads in less than a few hours ….

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Re:3x new books added to the Pirate Library Mirror by selectodude on Sunday September 25, 2022 @04:07PM (#32975519)
A million copies of a 10MB PDF is 10 terabytes. A gigabit internet connection could serve that in 22 hours. Pretty straightforward to do that.
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Re:3x new books added to the Pirate Library Mirror by fragmede on Sunday September 25, 2022 @11:25PM (#32979051)
If you go the sponsored route and use a CDN, then at 10 TBit/second it would only take 18 hours to serve it 8 billion times (approx once for every human). But there's still bittorrent and if the file's popular, that gigabit upload won't be the limiting factor.
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Re:3x new books added to the Pirate Library Mirror by JadeNB on Sunday September 25, 2022 @05:11PM (#32976297)
> A million copies of a 10MB PDF is 10 terabytes. A gigabit internet connection could serve that in 22 hours. Pretty straightforward to do that.

Yes, just so. The parent seemed to be arguing that it was too much to claim that it would take a few hours. I'd definitely call 22 hours at least a few!

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Re:3x new books added to the Pirate Library Mirror by tzs on Sunday September 25, 2022 @05:54PM (#32976740)
That was at 10 MB per book, but that seems pretty high. Looking at the most popular books at Project Gutenberg suggests that 0.5 to 1.5 MB is where most fall.
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