>Just the other day, one user has managed to download almost 10,000 copies of the italy-latest.osm.pbf file in 24 hours!

Whenever I have done something like that, it's usually because I'm writing a script that goes something like:

1. Download file 2. Unzip file 3. Process file

I'm working on step 3, but I keep running the whole script because I haven't yet built a way to just do step 3.

I've never done anything quite that egregious though. And these days I tend to be better at avoiding this situation, though I still commit smaller versions of this crime.