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Hello !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

I intend to upload an archive of a website I scraped for the last few weeks. The torrent is about 4 TB large and contains 400000 folders which in turn contain 40 .jpg's on average (plus some metadata).

Should I just create the torrent with the files as they are right now, or should I put the individual folders in archives (or maybe even the entire torrent?)?

Thanks in advance

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[–] fkn@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

People will want to download chicks or parts of the torrent, you should leave them separate.

[–] cesium@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Makes sense. What about individual folders? I'm concerned that the massive amount of small files could slow down the download quite a bit. Unfortunately, I'm not too familiar with the BitTorrent protocol, so I don't know if this would have an impact.

[–] zodo123@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Small files don’t impact BitTorrent transfers. They’re sent in pieces of a fixed size, and those pieces can contain multiple files.

[–] fkn@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Depends on final size of the folder zips. 20-30mb? Sure. 200-300? Nah.

[–] TheCraiggers@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 year ago

Jpeg is already compressed, so compressing them again won't do anything but make it impossible for people to selectively download just the image/folder they desire.

Metadata on the other hand sounds like text files, which compress very well. Wether the space savings is worth it is hard to answer without more info. I'd personally lean towards not archiving it.

[–] neo@lemmy.comfysnug.space 11 points 1 year ago

Only if you can achieve significant compression. 15% or more.

[–] Umbra@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I'd put it all in a single archive.

[–] UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Leave them as is. I hate having to deal with archives inside torrents unless there's a very good reason for them.

Why not both?

[–] free@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

wow, dedication bud, few weeks to web rip. well done. true pirate here. tx 4 ur service. I'd love to know which site. 😛 feel free to DM me. I'm curious.

[–] EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

NGL this style of writing looks like a fed trying hard to look like a l33t h4xer arrrgh.

[–] bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Gregorech@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

CIA is just an information gathering agency with no legal power, the FBI has the authority to make arrests.

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