Some say 'these people chose to be in the public eye' since they're recording from free, public streams, but most free cam models are paid on tips from viewers during live shows. Recording live streams and downloading them for later viewing is technically legal, but morally questionable. Amazon did not respond to Motherboard's request for comment. Archivist told me in a Reddit message that this represents 'upwards of 12 terabytes per day.' Those helping hoard are close to two petabytes now, stored on Amazon's cloud and mirrored on Google Drive. Another Redditor, -Archivist, took up the cause with the ' Petabyte Porn Project,' recruiting other hoarders to help continue recording live public cam sessions all day every day. While he's no longer running the scripts that collected the porn, he made them available on Github. If the videos are even lower quality, say, 480p, that's around 0.7 gigabytes per hour, or 293 years and six months.

A few good folks crunched the numbers: 720p is about two gigabytes per hour, and at 900,000 hours, that's 102 years of straight calendar time. How long would it take one to consume 1.8 petabytes of porn? 1.8 petabytes is about 23.4 years of HD-TV video, but webcam streams are nowhere near that quality. He said it took five or six months to collect one petabyte of porn, and he stopped collecting just shy of 1.8 petabytes. Call me crazy, but women interest me more than most other things on the internet and there is a huge amount of data being created daily, so it was a good fit for the project.' 'Ever since I got into computers, I found myself learning more, and faster when it was something more interesting. 'It is nearly entirely porn,' he told me in a Reddit message. 'I have more of a problem with collecting or hoarding data than I do with porn' To gather this much data, beaston02 wrote scripts that recorded public webcam shows from a variety of adult cam sites, including CamSoda, Chaturbate, and MyFreeCams.

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