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47of74

(18,470 posts)
Fri Aug 25, 2017, 07:46 PM Aug 2017

Person tests Amazon unlimited storage by storing 293 years worth of porn

Holy shit, Batman

A Redditor has gone to extreme, X-rated lengths to test whether Amazon's "unlimited" cloud storage scheme was truly unlimited by flooding the service with around 293 years worth of porn.

Curious 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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Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
11. Andrew Blake did some decent, arty work back in the day.
Fri Aug 25, 2017, 10:59 PM
Aug 2017

And what did he get for his trouble? Mocked by the Coen Bros, that's what.

 

47of74

(18,470 posts)
12. Yeah I posted to a Big Lebowski group on FB asking if Jackie or Bunny...
Sat Aug 26, 2017, 11:13 AM
Aug 2017

...had anything to do with any of the videos contained within.

BigmanPigman

(51,622 posts)
3. Porn goes back thousands of years in relics from
Fri Aug 25, 2017, 07:56 PM
Aug 2017

ancient civilizations all over the world. There isn't enough storage space. Period.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
4. I don't think this guy was trying to store "all porn", more like he just wanted to test Amazon's
Fri Aug 25, 2017, 07:58 PM
Aug 2017

"unlimited storage" promise.


Kind of like going to the All You Can Eat restaurant and just setting up camp.

 

Not Ruth

(3,613 posts)
6. Unless he created this porn at home, it is likely pirated, won't Amazon be culpable for enabling it?
Fri Aug 25, 2017, 08:32 PM
Aug 2017
 

Not Ruth

(3,613 posts)
8. And how do you find time to watch it, meaning how do you know that it is really porn?
Fri Aug 25, 2017, 08:46 PM
Aug 2017

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)
9. And if you have not watched it, how do you know that you have not uploaded something illegal
Fri Aug 25, 2017, 08:55 PM
Aug 2017

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)
10. He wouldn't know, not for sure. However, it says in the article hes capturing video from "cam" sites
Fri Aug 25, 2017, 10:55 PM
Aug 2017

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.



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