That stinks. Cleaning a site is a colossal pain. Since I am the goto guy for my circle of friends for all things web I have cleaned up about a half a dozen sites. You are right usually throwing the whole thing out and starting from scratch is the easiest thing to do.
Since it looked like the site had a lot of stuff they were giving away, might I suggest using a file locker site, or even generating a torrent if the owner is willing to do so.
Torrents can be useful and totally legal for this kind of stuff if the owner is willing to share.
Getting back to the hack. I will never understand the full on black hat hackers. I will admit to a lot of "grey" stuff in my past, but rendering sites useless using an automated insertion program (little skill or innovation required) for marginal returns makes zero sense to me. Some people just want to watch the world burn I guess.
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