Never heared of the site, but judging by the given creation dates, it only launched last year?

Mission seems to be game archival and there is indeed a lot of stuff that likely no copyright holders care about anymore. And that is likely of value for computer historians.

But in addition to that, it is also used to share modern, non-game media. One folder contains 10 different Alien (the movie franchise), two Finding Dory Blu-rays (as ~40GB zips), plus a few dozen more... I'm pretty sure stuff (piracy) like that also increases storage and bandwidth costs, while they don't align with the stated mission. And I think that stuff is unlikely to go missing any time soon; in fact Jeff Bezos will be happy to ship you a copy.

I don't want to deep link, but the article mentions the site's name. The folder is "files/No-Intro/BD-Video/". There is more like that.

NOOOOOTCH

> The creator also complained about abusive users who were monetizing Myrient content. Not only did they bypass the donation messages and the site's built-in download protections, but they also added a paywall that defeated the site’s policy against paywalls.

Stealing was always ok in capitalism, unless you steal from me. See FAANG. See AI companies (some belonging to FAANG).