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1. ryan29+(OP)[view] [source] 2021-09-14 23:27:53
Did anyone download it and look? This is huge if it's true isn't it? I don't want to download it because I don't know what the laws are, but I'm really interested to know if it's true. Rob Monster is a really big domain investor, right?

This is really big news if it's true.

Edit: I looked it up. Rob started Epik [1]. I wonder if that's really his password. Lol.

Edit 2: I wasn't aware of Epik's reputation either. I just knew they're a big (ish) registrar.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Monster

replies(3): >>r721+91 >>Natsu+e4 >>iszome+Mv
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2. r721+91[view] [source] 2021-09-14 23:35:35
>>ryan29+(OP)
From Emma Best (DDoSecrets)'s tweets it looks like it's unavailable at the moment (6h ago):

>There don't seem to be any active seeds and just under 0.5% seems to be available ATM, so... we'll see what happens!

https://twitter.com/NatSecGeek/status/1437827363505573896

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3. Natsu+e4[view] [source] 2021-09-14 23:56:25
>>ryan29+(OP)
I heard about it yesterday but only the release on Twitter, I haven't seen the torrent.

It will be interesting to see which media outlets report on it after so many adopted a policy of not reporting on hacked info.

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4. zavert+38[view] [source] [discussion] 2021-09-15 00:24:40
>>Natsu+e4
The torrent is on her website, a few people tweeted that they finally had seeders, but I'm unsure if they got the entire archive.

I'm currently trying to download it now, but the torrent file is so large that it's crashing most torrent software (pico, deluge, webtorrent) I throw at it, on 2 machines!

replies(2): >>NavinF+aN >>adrian+qR
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5. common+Qp[view] [source] [discussion] 2021-09-15 02:34:30
>>r721+91
It's possible that the source sharded the torrent payload and then distributed the shards among multiple "seeds" that are brought online/offline on a rolling schedule, to avoid being identified as the lone seed. Since none of the "seeds" have the entire payload, they are identified as peers (specifically, leechers) in the torrent client.
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6. nebula+Ws[view] [source] [discussion] 2021-09-15 03:00:48
>>common+Qp
This 30+ MB torrent file is choking ruTorrent and Deluge clients on my seedbox. Not sure how to fix it. Do you know of some alternative way to process such a large file? I have never seen such a large torrent file like this before.
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7. common+at[view] [source] [discussion] 2021-09-15 03:02:53
>>nebula+Ws
The screenshot from one of the replies to the tweet (https://twitter.com/pompompur_in/status/1437905607273635847) seems to be of qBittorrent. It's open source and cross-platform, just like Deluge.

https://www.qbittorrent.org/download.php

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8. nebula+Jt[view] [source] [discussion] 2021-09-15 03:08:00
>>common+at
Not available on my server unfortunately. Otherwise qBitorrent is the client of choice. I have found magnet links from DdosSecrets here: https://ddosecrets.com/wiki/Epik

Edit: Turns out I didn't give enough attention to Transmission as it handled the file. Very impressive.

As a side note: this has got me pondering about testing edge cases on open source software. Wonder how much of that actually gets done.

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9. cheeze+vu[view] [source] [discussion] 2021-09-15 03:16:39
>>nebula+Ws
rtorrent has handled literally _everything_ I've ever thrown at it
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10. iszome+Mv[view] [source] 2021-09-15 03:27:50
>>ryan29+(OP)
I downloaded the torrent file and casually browsed the index but didn't want to waste my time, bandwidth, and storage for a 150+ GB dump.
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11. NavinF+aN[view] [source] [discussion] 2021-09-15 06:44:01
>>zavert+38
How big is it? I had similar issues downloading danbooru2020 (3.4TB), but rtorrent did the job with only ~5G RSS. Every other client used 4x the memory and never completed the download.
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12. Taylor+GP[view] [source] [discussion] 2021-09-15 07:08:44
>>NavinF+aN
Another commenter mentions that the actual .torrent file is 32MB.
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13. adrian+qR[view] [source] [discussion] 2021-09-15 07:27:14
>>zavert+38
transmission seems fine
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14. fybs+jt1[view] [source] [discussion] 2021-09-15 13:07:55
>>NavinF+aN
it's 180 GB. transmission works fine.
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15. genera+Jy1[view] [source] [discussion] 2021-09-15 13:44:26
>>cheeze+vu
It didn't handle this one when I tried it.
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16. sleepy+oy2[view] [source] [discussion] 2021-09-15 18:45:17
>>fybs+jt1
it's not the size of the data that's the problem, it's the size of the metadata and the sheer number of files in the data. Torrents suck for lots of tiny files, and we have that here in spades.
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