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I'm not sure what you are referring to with 'such a thing', but mirroring libgen and zlib is really not hard. Libgen offers Torrent links as does Anna's Archive. The libgen domains are fragile, but here's a link to the Anna's Archive torrents: https://annas-archive.org/torrents. They even have a page talking about training LLMs on this data: https://annas-archive.org/llm

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Do any of these methods actually work though? Last time I looked (admittedly, 6 months or so ago), there were 0 seeders on the torrents.

Exactly, it's easy to say "Just torrent it," but that requires a lot of people to stick their necks out, including the user who just wants a copy of the data.

We need the ability to circulate HDDs physically in a semi-organized fashion, samizdat-style.

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