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AFAIK Google isn’t mirroring any of the binary stuff anyway though, are they? So how big is it? Surely with proper text compression it’s under 100TB. That’s 5 large hard drives at this point.
Knowing Google, this is not a given at all.
Yeah, it needs to get into Internet Archive stat.
they ain’t got that much storage without skipping the good stuff.
AFAIK Google isn’t mirroring any of the binary stuff anyway though, are they? So how big is it? Surely with proper text compression it’s under 100TB. That’s 5 large hard drives at this point.
The binary stuff is all on the paid usenet servers. Those are still very popular for piracy and not going away anytime soon.