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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 many concurrent requests. If he had the servers to himself then yes, that would be surprising.

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.

They do. Universities across Canada also subscribe to this.

Yeah, my college also had it. But the article made it sound like only MIT was using these servers.