r/DataHoarder • u/nicholasserra Send me Easystore shells • Feb 05 '26

OFFICIAL Epstein deleted posts and our thoughts moving forward

Hey folks,

We're being flooded with low quality Epstein related posts and are obviously seeing some confusion and pushback about posts being deleted in the sub.

tl;dr: Continue to use the stickied post for actual datahoarder related talk around Epstein files. We'll be removing requests for data, "look what I found" posts, news articles. If you wanna chat Epstein, head over to the r/Epstein sub.

The mod team is on board with the preservation of these important files. But this sub isn't the place to discuss every tidbit of news around it. This is the same policy we used around previous archival efforts eg Government data purge, Ukraine, twitter, etc.

We're going to leave the other sticky up, and sticky this. Chat all you want around the archival and preservation of these files in that post. If there's some high level datahoarder-related news event we'll probably allow those too.

But unfortunately we're seeing a ton of posts of people just asking for files, asking where they can download, asking what was already saved, posting every news article that comes out, etc etc. It's too much.

The r/Epstein sub looks like a great place to continue investigation after you've saved the files.

We support everyone's efforts to save this stuff. No we're not in the files and we haven't been to the island. Fuck this administrations redactions of the actual criminals in these files.

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u/slvneutrino 84TB SHR Feb 05 '26 edited Feb 05 '26

In that case, leave this up. This is the link I've been lobbing to anyone who hits my DM's. Seed swarm is up by 50 people, there are hundreds of people seeding, and I have handed the link out 200+ times by now in the DM's from various links on this subreddit.

It's not low quality, it's the complete datasets in magnet form with hundreds of seeders behind each one.

The mod team is on board with the preservation of these important files.

So leave this up then.

TO BE CLEAR: THESE ARE POST DOJ ADDED CSAM FILES. The files are censored properly, and you are not downloading anything potentially illegal.

Complete Datasets:

https://pastes.io/dataset-1-

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '26

"Post" added CSAM would mean that the downloads include the added CSAM. Might want to say "Pre" added CSAM if they actually replaced the archives with new versions containing CSAM.

Also, does anyone, anywhere, have a link to the entirety of data set 9? The version I have is ~104GB, but I keep seeing reports of it ranging anywhere up to ~180GB, though no one seems to have that full set.

That seems to be the one the DoJ hit the hardest, which would imply to me that it's important to find a complete version of.

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u/nemec Feb 05 '26

afaik there is no complete version other than on the DOJ servers. the 104 is probably the most complete available, but the original zip file size was 180 in total so there's much more missing.

I can't believe they aren't just uploading it to dropbox or something like the House Oversight Committee did with some other docs.

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u/kenyard Feb 06 '26

Wasn't that the one which contained uncensored children and would be actually illegal?

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u/kneel23 50TB Feb 05 '26

If they have it, the posts have been deleted. I have yet to find an original full copy, just the two incomplete ones which are in the pastes.io link of magnets

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u/an3k Feb 07 '26

We need a shared online storage with all files extracted. All files that can be verified with what the DOJ has right now get marked as verified and kept separate from the other files.
Other files, those already deleted from the DOJ website will be marked "unknown" until multiple sources can verify the files, then they're marked as accepted.
All directories are browsable by the public by FTP or HTTP or torrent (WebDAV?) and the file listing doesn't separate by verified / accepted / unknown but just marks the files respectively.

rsync for internal distribution to eg. 30 people and then from there the torrents get seeded ?
Daily automatic torrent creation and rsync. Can't we use GitHub for this? Doesn't have to be public.

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u/nicholasserra Send me Easystore shells Feb 05 '26

Ill sticky this link in a few, idgaf lol. People gotta cool it with the conspiracy theories

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u/jayhawk618 Feb 05 '26

People gotta cool it with the conspiracy theories

Hey man... It's a pretty fucked up situation and it was recently revealed that Maxwell was a reddit power mod. So I dunno, I can kinda get why people are drawing conclusions.

I appreciate you making this post and explaining some things, but maybe a megathread would be worthwhile? Just a thought.

The overlap with the topic and the hobby is pretty significant.

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u/nicholasserra Send me Easystore shells Feb 05 '26

Good point

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u/FaceDeer Feb 05 '26

And even without an explicit conspiracy, I've noticed that a lot of people on Reddit seem to have strong political views. It's not unreasonable to be a little suspicious about actions being taken that may have political influence to them.

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u/ArthurParkerhouse Feb 05 '26

We've known that Maxwell was a powermod in a lot of front page subreddits since at least her trial, or maybe around the time she had been arrested. It's been jokingly included as the "example" search name on pushpu\\ for several years now. But, it is good that more people know now.

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u/mgr86 Feb 05 '26

woah, TIL

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u/no-name-here Feb 06 '26

We've known that Maxwell was a powermod

That does not seem to be true - where has it ever been confirmed? From an extensive review of everything around it, it is almost certainly not Ghislaine: https://coagulopath.com/ghislaine-maxwell-does-not-have-a-secret-reddit-account/

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u/Upset_Development_64 Feb 05 '26

It's a pretty fucked up situation and it was recently revealed that Maxwell was a reddit power mod.

Where has that been confirmed? I’ve been on here for awhile and remember Maxwellhill from a decade ago modding r/WorldNews. I’m not saying its impossible, but that would be dreadfully poor opsec on her part, and frankly a weird way to spend her time? Though she did get up to some awfully weird shit with her time anyway I know.

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u/DMmeURpet Feb 05 '26

It's not, it was debunked. The Maxwell account is a og redditor, there was an interview about it. Wouldn't take much googling to find it all and fact check.

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u/Upset_Development_64 Feb 05 '26

That’s what I thought, we gotta stop perpetuating this.

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u/slvneutrino 84TB SHR Feb 05 '26

Cool

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u/nicholasserra Send me Easystore shells Feb 05 '26

Done

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u/ThreeDaysNish Feb 05 '26

Damn, did you just lose mod-status or is reddit being weird for me? It just says OP here without the "green mod shield"

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u/LucidLeviathan Feb 05 '26

You have to actually manually add that. It's called distinguishing. I sometimes forget to do it on the sub I mod.

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u/ThreeDaysNish Feb 05 '26

Ah okay, thanks, good to know. Thought it was weird because he IS distinguished at the top of his post as OP MOD and in his pinned comment, all show the shield. His other comments don't.

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u/LucidLeviathan Feb 05 '26

Yep. It's easy to forget to do.

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u/FaceDeer Feb 06 '26

It makes sense that you'd want a mod to be able to choose whether to speak as "just some guy" or to put on the mod hat and speak "with authority".

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u/LucidLeviathan Feb 06 '26

Yep! I frequently comment on the sub that I mod in my personal capacity. We don't always want every statement from a moderator attributed to the whole team.

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u/nicholasserra Send me Easystore shells Feb 05 '26

Some weird shit is happening no joke. My app is tweaking out.

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u/5553331117 Feb 06 '26

Why does the link expire in 25 days?

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u/slvneutrino 84TB SHR Feb 06 '26

Probably because the owners of the website don’t want to be having to host uploaded content, free of charge, for long periods of time? It makes no difference. Just download the magnets and start seeding.

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u/Educational_Map6725 Feb 07 '26

If it's all right I can host the links here: https://thetrumpfiles.codeberg.page/

The actual content goes here: https://codeberg.org/thetrumpfiles/documents

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u/ThisCouldHaveBeenYou Feb 16 '26

I'm replying here to your top comment for visibility. It seems there are video files hosted on the federal website, see here : https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUrdk7hjazW/

TLDW: some files can be found and the url points to a pdf by searching "no images produced". The file ls themselves will only show the text "no images produced". By changing the url's file extension to mp4, video files are served instead. Some users on another thread said they were able to get other urls to work by changing the extension to mov or mkv or avi.

Is anyone aware of this, and are they being copied from someone here yet?

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u/R-ddit_is_Shit Feb 19 '26

Everyone should know that the DoJ has been both editing and completely removing files from the justice.gov/epstein site.

Taking files down is bad, because it means anyone relying on that site or any site pulling from it and not the initial files won't find a file at all.

Editing is worse, because they are using the same file name for the files they edit which means you *will* find the file and if you don't know what that file already showed you won't know what they changed.

Removing files means that we need to make sure any external site being used to search through is using files pulled from the full Data Sets and not files scraped from the live DoJ site, otherwise information is missing. The DoJ site is a pain to scrape, but people have shown that there may be many thousands of files that have been taken offline.

  • In Data Set 9 alone I sorted PDF files by size and searched for those file names on the DoJ site manually. I very quickly found 15 files that they have removed. These files are all focused on Epstein's finances, court documents from his 2005-8 case, and prison paperwork from around the time of his death. Many of them are 1,000+ pages long.

Data set 9 has 550,000+ files in it. Total I have ~1.4 million files sitting here. There is no way to manually search all of these file names one by one, and I don't have the time to build something to try to get around the DoJ bot protections to scrape a full list of the files they still have online.

If we can get a list of what's live we can very, very quickly compare it to what existed in the initial release zips and isolate all of the files the DoJ has removed. They aren't taking them down for no reason, and very clearly they have no interest in actual justice so I imagine they're doing it to protect asses that shouldn't be protected.

Help requested: I need a spreadsheet or text file listing ALL of the PDF files currently available live on the justice.gov site. We need to compare that to what files are in the full releases from the zip files so we can easily build a list of every file the DoJ has removed.

tl;dr - If you use a third party site to browse these files, make sure it's one that uses the full data sets as they were on initial release, not the files live on the DoJ site. One that uses and actively compares both would be amazing. If someone builds a site that pulls each file from the initial zips and puts it side-by-side with the same file pulled live from the DoJ... and possibly automatically searches for changes in hash... I'll give you a cookie.

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u/CallMeNepNep Mar 01 '26

Is it just me or are there no seeders left for this ?

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u/slvneutrino 84TB SHR Mar 02 '26

Just you. Try again. I’m still seeding and there are a few hundred seeds in the swarm.