AcademicTorrents, Torrents for academics and more

Researchers from Massachusetts University have created a torrent website that allows academics to share documents and data.

The page AcademicTorrents offers researchers a reliable and decentralized platform to share their work with their peers, and the rest of the world. The site hitherto hosts over 1,5 petabytes of data, including a NASA map for Mars.
The site was started by Joseph Cohen and Henry Lo, two PhD students working at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. The website aims to provide academics with a cheap and decentralized platform to share their work and their data with the rest of the world.

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"Data sharing is difficult. Emails have size limits, and setting up servers is a lot of work. We have designed a distributed system for sharing huge files - for researchers, by researchers. The result is a scalable, secure, and tolerable data warehouse with incredibly fast download speeds, ”say Cohen and Lo.

AcademicTorrents runs its own tracker and supports web-seeds , so files are available at all times.

One of the goals of the program is to re-search researchers instead of being locked behind paywalls. Today, most of the top releases bring money to publishers, but with AcademicTorrents, each edition will be distributed free of charge.

On the site you can find a NASA map (42 gigabytes) showing the planet Mars, as well as a recent copy of Wikipedia.

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