I can see museums and colleges buying this full sized poster. This is very cool. And for a site with low views/small items to upload a ungodly huge file, what did they think would happen?
[citation][nom]rutiger[/nom]"shows more than 84 million stars"I only counted 83,568,723 and wonder which ones I missed.[/citation]
Better start over. ;-p
[citation][nom]MarcNBarrett[/nom]There is an easy way to solve bandwidth problems when proving files of considerable size: bittorrent.[/citation]
Then you get your connection throttled by your ISP and a warning letter for pirating. Since as far as they are concerned the only use for bittorrent is pirating media.
[citation][nom]velocityg4[/nom]Then you get your connection throttled by your ISP and a warning letter for pirating. Since as far as they are concerned the only use for bittorrent is pirating media.[/citation]
That's not how that works. The ISPs get contacted by people representing the studios of the movies you pirate. Your ISP has a vested interest in not really doing anything. Punishing you in any way could cost them money. They're not going out of their way to tick you off, it just happens.
Uncompressed with 24-bits per pixel would be 25GB... though given that the image is mostly black and white, I bet 8-bit would look about the same... 8 GB.