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    James Spibey
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    FBI action over illegal file-swap[^] Each of the five hubs contained 40 petabytes of data, the equivalent of 60,000 movies or 10.5 million songs :wtf: How can an individual aquire storage of that size? I think even google has less storage than that. They're not making any money from P2P so they must have funded it out of their own pocket. Cheers James

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      FBI action over illegal file-swap[^] Each of the five hubs contained 40 petabytes of data, the equivalent of 60,000 movies or 10.5 million songs :wtf: How can an individual aquire storage of that size? I think even google has less storage than that. They're not making any money from P2P so they must have funded it out of their own pocket. Cheers James

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      Aryo Handono
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      Woow...amazing, 40 petabytes its equal to 40.000.000 gigabytes. :omg: BTW, Is it enough to download the internet ? :-D:-D "Courage choose who will follow, Fate choose who will lead" - Lord Gunner, Septerra Core "Press any key to continue, where's the ANY key ?" - Homer Simpsons Drinking gives me amazing powers of insight. I can solve all the worlds problems when drunk, but can never remember the solutions in the morning. - Michael P Butler to Paul Watson on 12/08/03

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        FBI action over illegal file-swap[^] Each of the five hubs contained 40 petabytes of data, the equivalent of 60,000 movies or 10.5 million songs :wtf: How can an individual aquire storage of that size? I think even google has less storage than that. They're not making any money from P2P so they must have funded it out of their own pocket. Cheers James

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        Andy Brummer
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        The hubs don't house the content, just the indexes to the content on the users hard drives. I suppose they must have hit some of the hubs that encourage illeagal file sharing.


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          FBI action over illegal file-swap[^] Each of the five hubs contained 40 petabytes of data, the equivalent of 60,000 movies or 10.5 million songs :wtf: How can an individual aquire storage of that size? I think even google has less storage than that. They're not making any money from P2P so they must have funded it out of their own pocket. Cheers James

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          Simple maths: 5 hubs of 40 petabytes each = 40 * 1024 * 4 * 250GB disks. You can say that one would need 163840 disks with 250GB each. A 250GB SATA disk is around $500, so this means that each of these 5 hubs costs $58,982,400. All this money only for the disks. You need a controller, computers, a/c, etc. Only the power bill for running 163840 disks at end of the month would be monstrous! I believe that is safe to say that each hub costs $100,000,000. So, the FBI action got around half a billion dollars of equipment? Isn't this a bit too expensive to see Kill Bill for free? Yes, even I am blogging now!

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            Simple maths: 5 hubs of 40 petabytes each = 40 * 1024 * 4 * 250GB disks. You can say that one would need 163840 disks with 250GB each. A 250GB SATA disk is around $500, so this means that each of these 5 hubs costs $58,982,400. All this money only for the disks. You need a controller, computers, a/c, etc. Only the power bill for running 163840 disks at end of the month would be monstrous! I believe that is safe to say that each hub costs $100,000,000. So, the FBI action got around half a billion dollars of equipment? Isn't this a bit too expensive to see Kill Bill for free? Yes, even I am blogging now!

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            James Spibey
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            Yeah it looks like they got their sums wrong. I would guess it's more like 40 Terabytes, but even so, that is still a massive data store. Cheers James

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              FBI action over illegal file-swap[^] Each of the five hubs contained 40 petabytes of data, the equivalent of 60,000 movies or 10.5 million songs :wtf: How can an individual aquire storage of that size? I think even google has less storage than that. They're not making any money from P2P so they must have funded it out of their own pocket. Cheers James

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              Brian Delahunty
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              Doesn't say anything about 40 petabytes of data on the article now. I think bbc got it wrong and changed it. Regards, Brian Dela :-) http://www.briandela.com IE 6 required.
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                Simple maths: 5 hubs of 40 petabytes each = 40 * 1024 * 4 * 250GB disks. You can say that one would need 163840 disks with 250GB each. A 250GB SATA disk is around $500, so this means that each of these 5 hubs costs $58,982,400. All this money only for the disks. You need a controller, computers, a/c, etc. Only the power bill for running 163840 disks at end of the month would be monstrous! I believe that is safe to say that each hub costs $100,000,000. So, the FBI action got around half a billion dollars of equipment? Isn't this a bit too expensive to see Kill Bill for free? Yes, even I am blogging now!

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                Nnamdi Onyeyiri
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                I thought the hubs didnt have any data, they just listed what the users connected to it had.


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