With the advent of enormous models such as R1, do any of you want me to download a model for you, and ship it to you on a storage device?
Having a gigabit connection at my home, I'm lucky enough to be able to download any model that piques interest. I know from experience that this is not the case for everyone.
I'm an established eBay seller since 2000(!), and I can send you the model of your choice, on the device of your choice, by snail mail. Like the car full of hard drives barreling down the highway, except in a well-packaged box, delivered to your doorstep by the courier of your choice.
The way I see this working is I share my ebay account, we establish trust..., you tell me which model, or probably which models you want, I git lfs them (from huggingface or wherever) onto a storage device that you send me, or that I purchase for you, and then I mail the model(s) to you via your preferred postal method, including to international addresses.
Can I help you get your hands on DeepSeek R1 or any other model, by snail mail?
The email would have a link to the original .torrent and if a part of a disk was somehow corrupted, you could download just that chunk via BitTorrent instead of redownloading the whole thing or waiting for a new disk out.
Independently sourced checksums fixes most of the trust issues and a block-by-block checksum like what torrents had would allow for repair as well.
I remember installing Silkroad Online (the MMORPG) and noticing the installer used to be a clever BitTorrent client packaged with a single torrent of the game.
Server load balancing on its own.
Perhaps some may be region locked out of downloading such resources which may be able to take you up on your offer though!
Mediawiki dumps, Linux distros, AI models, etc.
Seriously, what a generous offer. You rock.