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"Does anyone think it's odd that an Acer laptop could write these files to disk faster than JSTOR could serve them?" Nope. I bet the JSTOR servers are serving

"Does anyone think it's odd that an Acer laptop could write these files to disk faster than JSTOR could serve them?" Nope. I bet the JSTOR servers are serving many concurrent requests. If he had the servers to himself then yes, that would be surprising.

sp332 15y ago
FTA: This is more than one hundred times the number of downloads during the same period by all the legitimate MIT JSTOR users combined It sounds like he was using the majority of their resources. But maybe those servers serve lots of places, and they only mentioned MIT as an example.
- a3camero 15y ago
  They do. Universities across Canada also subscribe to this.
  - sp332 15y ago
    Yeah, my college also had it. But the article made it sound like only MIT was using these servers.