Fuuuuuuuuck, I knew Myrient was too good to be long for this world.
The headline blaming it all on AI seems misleading given the owner explicitly blames leechers in the community. Selfish chuds were routinely bypassing download limits and then had the gall to add their own paywalls without contributing anything back.
AI datacenters buying up the hardware is why their hosting costs increased. Worsening the problem significantly.
Selfish chuds were routinely bypassing download limits
Huh?
RTFA
In the past several months, many specialized download managers were created that completely bypassed the site, donation messages, and download protections. Some of these download managers locked certain features behind a paywall that required users to pay in order to gain access. The use of Myrient for commercial, for-profit purposes has always been strictly forbidden. Such egregious and abusive usage of the site cannot be tolerated anymore.
I read it which is why I was surprised, because the front page gives the impression that unrestricted free access is kind of its shtick?
There’s a concerted effort across many dataholders (at least /r/dataholders for sure) to make a full site wide backup across at least 3 copies across volunteers machines before it shuts down.
Alongside the backup team, another team is working on the best way to distribute to others after that (magnet links, archive.org, etc.).
Honestly , I didn’t even know about this site till today! So if enough donors hit the site to pick up at least $6K, will that site stay online? …cause I will definitely donate…no questions…just not all of $6K/month…that is crazy…
390TB?! That’s almost enough to install CoD!
Seems like a good use case for usenet
Out of curiosity, what games take up so much space? I’m assuming modern ones.
You can easily downloaded a torrent of all games before the CD era and it’ll fit nicely in a few TB.
Well this sucks. I mainly used them to get roms so I could play games with retroachievements
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