> Megaupload has multiple copies of almost every single movie and TV show in the world in multiple formats and quality levels.
> I have watched some very rare international films on Mega and it never failed me on a search.
> If you multiply out all the movies, all the multiple copies, all the TV show espisodes, all the different quality levels, you would get a few petabytes.
I implore you to do a back-of-the-envelope estimate and get to 25 petabytes.
Please take into account that I purposefully started with the highest quality level currently in use, which is ~10GB per movie. The assumption is that lower quality levels will only be a fraction of that size therefore all versions of a single movie won't be more than 20-50GB total. Additionally, many older movies are not available in the high quality formats and take up only a tenth of this space.
Also I'd like to point out that the MPAA is the Motion Picture Association of America, which is an American trade association that represents the six big Hollywood studios. So they don't represent the "rare international films".
Still, I'm just making rough estimates myself as well. I'd love it if you could come up with a possible way to explain that, say, at least half of this data could consist of MPAA represented intellectual property.
I just don't think they produced nearly enough content to warrant shutting down all the data stored in MegaUpload, even given that MegaUpload probably does store all their IP illegally, in multiple formats.
> I have watched some very rare international films on Mega and it never failed me on a search.
> If you multiply out all the movies, all the multiple copies, all the TV show espisodes, all the different quality levels, you would get a few petabytes.
I implore you to do a back-of-the-envelope estimate and get to 25 petabytes.
Please take into account that I purposefully started with the highest quality level currently in use, which is ~10GB per movie. The assumption is that lower quality levels will only be a fraction of that size therefore all versions of a single movie won't be more than 20-50GB total. Additionally, many older movies are not available in the high quality formats and take up only a tenth of this space.
Also I'd like to point out that the MPAA is the Motion Picture Association of America, which is an American trade association that represents the six big Hollywood studios. So they don't represent the "rare international films".
Still, I'm just making rough estimates myself as well. I'd love it if you could come up with a possible way to explain that, say, at least half of this data could consist of MPAA represented intellectual property.
I just don't think they produced nearly enough content to warrant shutting down all the data stored in MegaUpload, even given that MegaUpload probably does store all their IP illegally, in multiple formats.