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[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Yeah I don't understand why they couldn't just download the torrents with all of the website's books and be done with it.

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

they wanted high-speed database access

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Downloading the torrents is one thing. Actually leeching stuff another. At least Meta seems to have had some difficulties due to the low number of seeders.

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago

Oh, yeah, I guess. Every time I've used torrents to get the books it hasn't been very slow. But I imagine when you're downloading terabytes of books it's a very different situation