“We have logs,” Miller said. “You’ve distributed approximately 14 terabytes of copyrighted material over the past ninety days. That’s not a fan. That’s a release group. You’re not uploading for ratio anymore, Liam. You’re uploading because you want to be the one who has everything .”

He dropped it into an evidence bag.

Or so he told himself. But late at night, when the store was closed and the mall was a tomb of echoey Muzak, Liam would sometimes take out his phone and scroll through old screenshots. The spreadsheet. The folder tree. USA > Action > Adventure > RPG > Strategy . The perfect taxonomy of a dead library.