I also found the creators here [1] and here [2]...maybe you can help shoot them an e-mail so that they can acknowledge a lot of the praise on this thread and the flood of helpful suggestions. Additional contributors can also be found here [3] as well as related publications/presentations [4] including a massively interesting Reddit discussion [5].
[1]- Joseph Paul Cohen https://twitter.com/josephpaulcohen joseph@josephpcohen.com http://josephpcohen.com/w/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephpcohen https://github.com/ieee8023 https://www.reddit.com/user/ieee8023
[2]- Henry Z Lo henryzlo@cs.umb.edu https://www.linkedin.com/in/henry-z-lo-6a11461b https://github.com/henryzlo
[3] http://academictorrents.com/about.php
[4]- Academic Torrents: A Community-Maintained Distributed Repository (http://dl.acm.org.sci-hub.cc/citation.cfm?id=2616528&dl=ACM&...) - Academic Torrents - Simple Pitch (https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JC2d1g9U6HaenGSn_Xvk...) - Academic Torrents: Scalable Data Distribution (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.04395v1.pdf)
[5]- I have every publicly available Reddit comment for research. ~ 1.7 billion comments @ 250 GB compressed. Any interest in this? (https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/3bxlg7/i_have_eve...)