I suppose there is no way to know. But over on Reddit pornfree people mention deleting 1TB drives of porn. A quick Google show a TB is about 300,000 photos. (I know, it depends.)
Anyone know anything about excessively large porn collections coming to public attention?
Your confessions or thoughts in general?
There’s a big one called “the internet”.
I have the worlds largest collection of porn. Perhaps you’ve seen it scattered across the internet – Steven Wright, paraphrased.
I think “Asking for a friend” is supposed to appear somewhere in this request.
I went to an estate sale once. There was a sign saying to ask if you were interested in what seemed to me, especially in the age of the Internet, to be a staggeringly large porn collection. Something like a thousand tapes, some magazines, and so on. I did wonder if anyone actually showed any interest.
Define largest. People who have 1TB collections probably have alot of high quality videos. HD, 4K, etc. Also VR porn probably takes up a lot of space.
An hour long 4K video takes up more hard drive space than thousands of still pictures and 360p videos that are only a few minutes long.
So do you mean diversity of porn or hard drive storage?
I was afraid it was gonna be " Need answers fast" 
Undoubtedly not the largest collection, but last month, an Indiana man filed a lawsuit against his parents for throwing out his large collection of porn (which he valued at an estimated $29,000). He had moved in with them (in their home in Michigan) for a time after his 2016 divorce, and when he moved out, 10 months later, he had instructed them to ship his possessions to him to his new home in Indiana.
He sounds like a gem.
I think we need not only a definition of “large” as Wesley Clark says, but also a definition of “collection”. Say someone had a file that contained the URLs of 100,000 porn videos that he’s manually collected, one by one. I would consider that a “large porn collection” even though the file is just a couple of megabytes and he doesn’t actually own any physical media containing porn.
And as mentioned, someone with 1 TB of porn probably does not have 300,000 photos, he has a (slightly) more reasonable 1000 hours of video.
Besides you? 
(How else would you have known what it looked like?)
Gee, I wonder what led to his divorce.
Throwing away valuable stuff your kids have is part of parenting. Mine threw away some early 1960s comics. 
Yours and tens of millions of other parents! And if none of them had done so, your 1960s comic books and mine would both be worthless.
The Internet is for porn,
the Internet is for porn…
-Avenue Q
I surmise that the amount of porn is exactly like the universe- it is both infinite and expanding faster than the speed of light.
(And it probably started with a Big Bang! :D)
I see stories about people busted for child porn that had unbelievable amounts on their hard drive. I suspect with that particular subset of people, 300,000 files might be nothing special.
Gem or not, I have no problem with the argument here. The porn was not their property, and they should not have thrown it out.
The fact that it is porn should not matter. It could in fact be a comics collection. Or whatever else you personally value–your collection of first edition literary classics. Would you not be angry if that got thrown away? And just because he moved in with his parents doesn’t mean it became their property, any more than it would for any other landlord.
It’s bizarre to me that people keep presenting the facts as we know them and somehow conclude that there is something wrong with the son. His father stole and destroyed his adult son’s property. His landlord, instead of forwarding all of his property, chose to destroy some of it instead.
Unless there is more to the story, the father is clearly the one at fault here.
We are talking about an adult, though. There is no parenting going on anymore. Just because he couldn’t find a place after a divorce and moved back in with his parents doesn’t mean he suddenly became a child again. And he moved back out, so he clearly isn’t just a moocher.
Your comics were not actually your property, but the property of your parents, because you were still a kid. But that doesn’t hold when the guy is an adult. These are different situations entirely.
To me, it’s a bizarre as hearing that a father hit his adult son and seeing people defend it as a form of spanking.
I remember being surprised by that before, but then I read an article that made it make sense. There is a practical reason.
Child porn is not readily available online, like other kinds of porn. If it shows up, it will likely disappear quickly. And they also apparently trade back and forth with others. So, even if it doesn’t appeal to them, they want to keep it to trade for something that does. So it makes perfect sense that they hoard it.
Regular porn is so available that many people don’t download it at all, or only download that which they would hate to see disappear. So their collections never get that large.
And, of course, before the online era, it was hard to amass a very big collection.
That makes me wonder. Hypothetically speaking if someone had 300,000 copies of the same image would that mean they could be charged with 300, 000 counts of child porn or just one count because it is same image? I suspect it’s the former.
I could see he may have paid that much for a collection of physical stuff. I cannot imagine any porn collection having that much value. I suppose more than a few publishing houses were wiped out when internet porn reduced its value to that of a commodity.
One could imagine a computer program that could search the net endlessly collecting images, sort them and delete duplicates. While impressive, such a collection would have little value as someone else could duplicate it in time using the same methods.
I was in college when this happened, so no. Plus, as a grandparent, I can tell you that parenting never ends.
I’m not defending it - just noting that it is pretty damn common.
When we drove across the country to see our kids among other things our CRV was loaded with stuff to dump on them.