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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 intere

by ryan29 5y ago

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

r721 5y ago
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 https://twitter.com/NatSecGeek/status/1437827363505573896
- commoner 5y ago
  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.
  - nebula8804 5y ago
    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.
    - commoner 5y ago
      The screenshot from one of the replies to the tweet (https://twitter.com/pompompur_in/status/1437905607273635847 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 https://www.qbittorrent.org/download.php
      - nebula8804 5y ago
        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 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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    - cheeze 5y ago
      rtorrent has handled literally _everything_ I've ever thrown at it
      - generalizations 5y ago
        It didn't handle this one when I tried it.
Natsu 5y ago
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.
- zavertnik 5y ago
  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!
  - NavinF 5y ago
    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.
    - TaylorAlexander 5y ago
      Another commenter mentions that the actual .torrent file is 32MB.
    - fybs 5y ago
      it's 180 GB. transmission works fine.
      - sleepybrett 5y ago
        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.
  - adriancr 5y ago
    transmission seems fine
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iszomer 5y ago
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.

by ryan29 5y ago

r721 5y ago

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

commoner 5y ago
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.
- nebula8804 5y ago
  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.
  - commoner 5y ago
    The screenshot from one of the replies to the tweet (https://twitter.com/pompompur_in/status/1437905607273635847 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 https://www.qbittorrent.org/download.php
    - nebula8804 5y ago
      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 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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  - cheeze 5y ago
    rtorrent has handled literally _everything_ I've ever thrown at it
    - generalizations 5y ago
      It didn't handle this one when I tried it.

Natsu 5y ago

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.

zavertnik 5y ago
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!
- NavinF 5y ago
  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.
  - TaylorAlexander 5y ago
    Another commenter mentions that the actual .torrent file is 32MB.
  - fybs 5y ago
    it's 180 GB. transmission works fine.
    - sleepybrett 5y ago
      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.
- adriancr 5y ago
  transmission seems fine

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iszomer 5y ago

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.