>Last month, Meta admitted to torrenting a controversial large dataset known as LibGen, which includes tens of millions of pirated books. But details around the torrenting were murky until yesterday, when Meta’s unredacted emails were made public for the first time. The new evidence showed that Meta torrented “at least 81.7 terabytes of data across multiple shadow libraries through the site Anna’s Archive, including at least 35.7 terabytes of data from Z-Library and LibGen,” the authors’ court filing said. And “Meta also previously torrented 80.6 terabytes of data from LibGen.”
Considering the low size eBooks can be, 81.7 terabytes is a MASSIVE amount of books. HUGEEEEEE!
A lot of the eBooks I have (legitimately) from places like Smashwords and Itchio are only a few hundred kb in size. So even one terabyte is a really big number of books, depending on the size of each of them.
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That is……. so….. many….. books
But books are so small…
>Last month, Meta admitted to torrenting a controversial large dataset known as LibGen, which includes tens of millions of pirated books. But details around the torrenting were murky until yesterday, when Meta’s unredacted emails were made public for the first time. The new evidence showed that Meta torrented “at least 81.7 terabytes of data across multiple shadow libraries through the site Anna’s Archive, including at least 35.7 terabytes of data from Z-Library and LibGen,” the authors’ court filing said. And “Meta also previously torrented 80.6 terabytes of data from LibGen.”
Considering the low size eBooks can be, 81.7 terabytes is a MASSIVE amount of books. HUGEEEEEE!
A lot of the eBooks I have (legitimately) from places like Smashwords and Itchio are only a few hundred kb in size. So even one terabyte is a really big number of books, depending on the size of each of them.