[ltbarcly3]

Agree, this is extremely dubious:

5gbps and 10gbps residential fiber connections are common now.

12TB hd's cost under $100, so you would only need about $400 of storage to capture this, my SAN has more capacity than this and I bought basically the cheapest disks I could for it.

It only takes one person to download it and make a torrent for it to be spread arbitrarily.

People could target more interesting subsets over less interesting parts of the data.

Multiple downloaders could share what they have and let an interested party assemble what is then available.