| ▲ | DUDOS a day ago |
| How they manage to transfer 300TB of data while remaining anonymous is also astonishing. |
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| ▲ | monerozcash 16 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Rent a dedicated server, setup mullvad wireguard on it or whatever. Download stuff to said server using wireguard. Sure, you can also use Tor. The people engaged in copyright-related illegality generally don't. |
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| ▲ | alex_duf 13 hours ago | parent [-] | | But then you need to rent a server without leaving any hint on your real identity. Which means going to some dodgy corners of the internet. I certainly wouldn't attempt | | |
| ▲ | monerozcash 12 hours ago | parent [-] | | Depends on your threat model, you'd probably have to be scraping at a pretty large scale for anyone to try pursuing you through vpn providers. |
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| ▲ | NelsonMinar 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Perhaps they leased a botnet. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/10/aisuru-botnet-shifts-fro... |
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| ▲ | tacker2000 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I would guess this can be hidden under normal music streaming activity? But one would need lots of proxies! |
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| ▲ | eterm a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It's hard to imagine anything but physical egress for that kind of volume. |
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| ▲ | morsch 21 hours ago | parent [-] | | 50 free accounts continually streaming music rack up 20 TB in a month. So that would take about 1.5 years. Our you use 750 accounts and do it in a month. I would say it's weird they don't rate limit accounts but probably having a device play music pretty much all the time isn't even that rare of a use case. | | |
| ▲ | kefabean 19 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | That’s if they pretend to stream the music. If they are using throwaway free accounts I imagine they can download the DRM-stripped files much more quickly. | | |
| ▲ | morsch 16 hours ago | parent [-] | | True, but I could see them rate limiting that much more aggressively than streaming. | | |
| ▲ | sejje 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | You can download playlists for offline use, it'll go pretty fast. I doubt they monitor it that hard. |
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| ▲ | monerozcash 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | You can probably just buy a thousand hacked spotify accounts for not much more than $1 a piece |
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| ▲ | Thaxll 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I mean 300TB is nothing for a streaming service, like it woudn't even show on a dashboard. They probably did that over weeks which is invisible. |
