Huh, Nyaa says there is one person, but I can’t connect to them. I messaged the uploader, hopefully they’ll respond and start seeding or I can get it from them and seed myself.

For not so obscure stuff, Nyaa is great. Liking to specific titles is against the rules, though, plug the name into the searchbar yourself, please.

SHA1 has a fairly even distribution, it produces 160 bit digests, so each possible variation of a chunk will have a roughly 2^-160 probability to hit your hash. Now assuming you have some insane computing device that can do an exahash per hour (that’s 10¹⁸ hashes, a lot more than any modern hardware can do), finding one would take around 1.7E+26 years. Now the funniest part. Assuming your chunk is 32KiB large (practically nobody uses such small chunks today, so it’s the best-case scenario), there are 2^(32×2¹⁰×2³)/2¹⁶⁰ possible variations of the chunk that would produce your exact hash. That’s roughly 1.1E+78865 fitting chunks with only one being correct. And it takes you 1.7E+26 years to get to just one of them.

absolutely could be brute forced

Yea, I wouldn’t say that.