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Have any of the mirror sites uploaded all 50M papers as a torrent yet? They really should...

Yeah, I guess we're at the point where 50tb arrays are not infeasible. Not sure where I'd get 50tb of bandwidth though without someone gnawing off my left foot.

They should categorize papers into specific fields (and sub-fields). Each party would torrent what interests them.

Also, this might make a great use case for IPFS as apposed to torrents. Torrents are not designed to be mutable.

50tb is like 1/10th of a backblaze pod. And 50tb of bandwidth is not really that much (last month I spent 1.2TB of bandwidth on a consumer grade connection, so like 50 users can pull this off in a month)

> any of the mirror sites uploaded all 50M papers as a torrent

yes... but their bandwidth (seeding) is atrocious. Send help.

Where can I find the torrent?

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