US raids Net song swappers
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle...6§ion=news
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Each of the five hubs contained 40 PETAbytes of data, the equivalent of 60,000 movies or 10.5 million songs, Ashcroft said.
PETA sounds a bit too big, I know hard drive cost per gig is dropping, but not by that much.
Guessing about $.50 or fifty cents per gigabyte, average hdd cost now, that would be about $20,000,000 total for the cost of the storage space alone.
Odd coincidence that 650MB (avi movie) x 60,000 = 39,000,000 MB ~ 40 TERAbytes
Unless they were sharing 60,000 DVD Images at 6.5GB a piece
Same with the songs, 3.5MB (mp3 song) x 10,500,000 = 36750000 MB ~ 40 TERAbytes
Or they could by sharing raw wav formats of 35MB per song
If it was true that they were sharing 60 thousand raw dvd images, and 10.5 million raw wav format songs, then damn, I wish I would have been connected to it. :D
Some other interesting trivia facts iTunes is proud to state that they now have just over 1 million tracks avaiable. Glib on the right side.
The IMDB is proud to state their index of over 400 thousand movies. (400,000 titles)
These kids were pretty good, beat out iTunes by 10 times fold, and 150% more movies than the entire International Movie Database site!
I wonder if this story just might be being played up just a tad bit. . .