A basic inventory of the hidden archive gives a clue to its enormousness: batches of files are catalogued according to the length of shelf space they occupy, with six metres and two centimetres dedicated to files about Rhodesia, for example, and four metres and 57 centimetres holding files about Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, the KGB spies who operated inside the Foreign Office and MI6.
The site was quickly dubbed the "Netflix for Pirates," and blogs dedicated to file-sharing said it was a "breakthrough app" that offered "BitTorrent-powered streaming inside an easy-to-use Netflix-style interface". .
After Sweden tightened its anti-piracy laws and sentenced to jail the founders of a site called The Pirate Bay, the popularity of a political group dedicated to free file-sharing soared.
The government has beefed up the number of personnel dedicated to the file.
This week lawyers for ForestEthics, a nonprofit group dedicated to protecting forests, filed administrative complaints with the Federal Trade Commission and the Internal Revenue Service challenging the credibility of the rival label, known as the Sustainable Forestry Initiative, or S.F.I.
GoDaddy's move to shut down Spencer's site comes after the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a nonprofit organization dedicated to combating discrimination, filed a complaint.
We set up a huge network with three computers around the rig: two computers are dedicated to receiving the file and then a main computer compresses the file in real time so we could see the final result as soon as it was shot.
The West Wing Weekly won't be the first podcast to reassess a classic TV show episode by episode – there are excellent ones dedicated to The X-Files, The Simpsons and even Saved By the Bell – but it's already shaping up to be one of the most successful.
In a time when computers were just beginning to shrink down to an office-appropriate size, this meant entire buildings were dedicated to storing paper files.
(Such is the hallucinatory, and libellous, tone of certain articles in the press-cuttings file dedicated to the politician, a lifelong teetotaller).
