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Here's a link to the data: bWFnbmV0Oj94dD11cm46YnRpaDpONUJMWjZYRUNORUhIQVJISk9WUUFTNFc3VFdSWENTSSZkbj10d2l0Y2gtbGVha3MtcGFydC1vbmUmdHI9dWRwJTNBJTJGJTJGb3Blbi5zdGVhbHRoLnNpJTNBODAlMkZhbm5vdW5jZQ==

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Here's a base64 decoded version:

  magnet:?xt=urn:btih:N5BLZ6XECNEHHARHJOVQAS4W7TWRXCSI&dn=twitch-leaks-part-one&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.stealth.si%3A80%2Fannounce

Got it in my seedbox as of 15-20min ago:

Downloaded: 7.84GB Uploaded: 64.64GB

sheesh, one popular magnet!

the power of foss

That sounds like it's just the database. The full leak is 125.89gb

jesus, do you want to taste the banhammer?

I'm very curious to have a peek but isn't downloading stolen material a crime? And wouldn't this be compounded by the fact that with torrent systems you are also helping redistributing it further?

At most, it would be copyright infringement if Twitch (or Amazon) claimed copyright ownership of the code, which I assume they do.

There's no such "trade secrets" laws or anything like that you're violating. Perhaps the hacker has broken laws of unlawful access (i.e. hacking), but you certainly aren't just by downloading it. It's as bad as downloading a song or streaming a movie on a sketchy website. In practice, I've never heard of anyone getting sued for downloading code in a large leak.

When the Windows source code got leaked, so many people looked at it, including FAANG engineers. As long as you don't bring any of that stuff to work you're fine. That includes the knowledge[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design

The fact that you are uploader (e.g. distributing the content) while downloading a torrent seems to me to be the biggest risk.

If you have a seedbox, you're probably safe.

Correct, but this is the same legal exposure of uploading any copyrighted material (eg songs, movies).

Possibly, but more importantly it is also just plain immoral. It's disturbing how readily this community wishes to access, analyze, copy, and redistribute this stolen information. This same community that bemoans corporate exploitation of data now getting its rocks off creeping on stolen data.

I'm curious about which law downloading this would break.

Can anyone confirm how the revenue data is split? It looks like its split in the folders by YEAR -> MONTH -> DATE, however there are only folders for days 3-8 in each of the month folder.

Thanks!

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