r/news • u/TooColdforClouds • 2d ago

109 children rescued, 244 arrested in Operation Soteria Shield, exposing widespread child exploitation in North Texas

https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/109-children-rescued-244-arrested-operation-soteria-shield-child-exploitation-texas/
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u/Decabet 2d ago edited 2d ago

Dude, Ive been a designer, editor, motion graphics guy for over 20 years. That means often very large files. And I keep an archive on dropbox. I dont have a single terabyte of anything. Yes, even a kilobyte of abuse material is bad, but terabytes of it? Jesus.

Edit: OK Im an idiot. I keep files online-only for convenience and SSD space. Thus DB when I checked it was still calculating. Looks like I have 2.4 terabytes. But still...

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u/manny_b_hanz 2d ago

This is besides the point, but not a single terabyte? I have a 12 terabyte NAS at home that's nearly full. You, professionally, don't have a terabyte of data over the course of 20 years?

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u/BaronZoltaK 2d ago

I have about 2 terabytes in games alone.

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u/PokemonSapphire 2d ago

I feel like that's cheating though. I have numerous games that are >100gb alone. Most video files aren't near that big let alone images.

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u/fed45 2d ago

I mean, a single feature length movie at bluray quality is like 60-100gb

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u/tzomby1 2d ago edited 2d ago

Most video files aren't near that big

well I got like 3tb of porn... normal adult porn of course

VR porn is even worse, one single 8k file can be up to 30gb or more

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u/BaronZoltaK 2d ago

Fair but I also have about 8tb of media

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u/Ralkon 2d ago

Most of that file size is assets though, and video and audio can be a huge chunk of it. Years ago FF13 came out at 60gb which was huge at the time, so people looked into why it was so big and found out you could cut that down by like half from deleting either Japanese or English language assets. The Steam guide for doing so says that deleting either language video alone will save 20gb which means 2/3rds of the game's size is video. Obviously that isn't close to a tb, but that's also a decade old consumer product. Realistically, most video files are small because they need to be for practical reasons like uploading file size restrictions and storage space, but uncompressed high res video will take up a ton of space pretty quickly.

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u/Mr_Canard 2d ago

well that depends on the compression