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Related: About this forumPerson tests Amazon unlimited storage by storing 293 years worth of porn
Holy shit, BatmanCurious as to whether the retail giant's now-defunct offering had a hidden storage cap, Reddit user "beaston02" set about recording a whopping 1.8 petabytes of explicit "live cams" and uploaded the behemoth collection of adult streams to Amazon's cloud servers.
Amazingly, it appears that the user did not find a storage cap in Amazon's service, which the company shuttered in June. While he has since abandoned his smutty experiment, the "Petabyte Porn Project" lives on with fellow Redditor "-Archivist" and several volunteers pushing the total up by "upwards of 12 terabytes per day" using Github data released by beaston02.
As for why the project's original instigator stopped, beaston02 said: "Plenty of people have labeled me some huge pervert or someone with a huge porn addiction, but that's really not me at all.
I don't know what makes me shake my head more. That there's over 293 years worth of porn out there or that someone took the time to upload it all to Amazon.
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Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)And what did he get for his trouble? Mocked by the Coen Bros, that's what.
47of74
(18,470 posts)...had anything to do with any of the videos contained within.
csziggy
(34,189 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)BigmanPigman
(52,512 posts)ancient civilizations all over the world. There isn't enough storage space. Period.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)"unlimited storage" promise.
Kind of like going to the All You Can Eat restaurant and just setting up camp.
Not Ruth
(3,613 posts)Initech
(103,103 posts)Not Ruth
(3,613 posts)If you have not watched it, assuming that the uploader is not over 293 years old.
And what sort of internet provider does he have at home?
Not Ruth
(3,613 posts)Like child porn. The odds are if you have uploaded 280 years of unwatched porn (if you have watched 13 years so far), there is a 16 year old in there. Someone at Amazon or more likely, a thousand people at Amazon are probably watching it with law enforcement.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)one would assume- I don't, personally know, so don't shoot the messenger- that the cam sites in question have similar US 2259 protections that porn studios have to follow. Age verification for performers. You know, that little blurb at the beginning of the porno that says "records 2259 all actors are over 18" etc etc yadda yadda.
Not that I'm suggesting you've ever watched a porno. Heavens, I know I sure haven't! Phew.
Anyway... given the number of man-hours involved so to speak, I think you may be overestimating the willingness of both amazon and law enforcement to sit there and wade through multiple petabytes of cam shows. Just a hunch.