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Anyone knows why they are not willingly sharing the raw data with law enforcement?

• degif 10y ago
  The full database in CSV format (44.8GB) is downloadable via torrent https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/pages/database https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/pages/database
  • abhi3 10y ago
    Correct me if I am wrong but the way I understand it, what has been made public is a very small part of the data (which 2.6TB),Law enforcement would need access to all the data to investigate leads and prosecute offenders. ICIJ is refusing to give them access.
  • jgrahamc 10y ago
    Where do you get the 44.8GB number from? I see a 37.5MB zip file available for direct download or via BitTorrent.
    • sbarre 10y ago
      The torrent does not appear to be working properly (at least for me, I see no seeds and one tracker only that doesn't respond). But The direct download works. I would bet 45GB is the full raw text of all the docs, and that's not what this is. It's not a huge file but there's definitely a lot of data there. This is just a database of the Entities (319,422), Addresses (151,128), Intermediaries (26,643) and Officers (345,646). They also include an "edges" file to indicate relationships.
      • justinclift 10y ago
        It's weird there are no seeds for you. I've been seeing it for ~20 hours or so without issue. This is the metadata for it, if that helps: Name: offshoreleaks_data-csv.zip File: torrents/offshoreleaks_data-csv.zip.6ffb15f06e409a58.torrent GENERAL Name: offshoreleaks_data-csv.zip Hash: 6ffb15f06e409a58ab7d2a710784e4ef974da782 Created by: Created on: Unknown Piece Count: 144 Piece Size: 256.0 KiB Total Size: 37.53 MB Privacy: Public torrent TRACKERS Tier #1 http://tracker.amazonaws.com:6969/announce FILES offshoreleaks_data-csv.zip (37.53 MB)