It’s kind of silly, but I still really dig the idea behind torrenting and peer to peer sharing of data. It’s cool to think about any old computer helping pass along some odd bits & bytes of data, whether a goofy drawing or strange story.

  • Max-P
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    639 months ago

    I think a good chunk of the Internet Archive is available as torrents, at least the software collections and public domain media.

    You can also download a torrent of the whole of Wikipedia, with and without images.

      • Lunch
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        9 months ago

        Not a direct answer to your question, but this is where I download my stuff from, and it also shows size.

        https://library.kiwix.org/#lang=eng

        Edit: Wikipedia is available there, the full thing is 109.89GB. I wonder how up-to-date it is.

        • andrew_bidlaw
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          39 months ago

          Last time I checked the bigest English wiki weighted around 20-30Gb. Can’t remember if that’s with pictures. The Library of Alexandria could’ve been saved by a guy with a smartphone.