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They want to preserve the data. How about this: 1. Prgram an app that you asks the user if archive.org could store, say 1 gig of encrypted data on your hard d
by icantdrive55 10y ago
They want to preserve the data.
How about this:
1. Prgram an app that you asks the user if archive.org could store, say 1 gig of encrypted data on your hard drive? It wouldn't be mandatory, but you could help if desired. It would just sit on your hard drive.
That gig of data would be changing on a regular basis. (Big data centers could offer to take in data. Hell, they could have another tax right off at the end of the year.)
2. After all the data has been distributed around the world; the data transfer would start over again, but on different computers. In a short amount of time you might have millions of computers with part of The Internet Archive sitting idle on users hard drives. The end result is the users would be worker bees; waiting for the queen to call them home. (In the end, you might have 1000 computers with the same block of data on their hard drive. Why because computers don't last forever.)
3. If we had a catastrophe, once the new Internet Archive was repaired/restored; the data lying dormant on millions of hard drives would come home to papa in a orderly manner.
4. It would remind people of the importance of preserving history. It would bring more attention to The Internet Archive. It would bring in a sence of team. Why not try it until this 592c3 gets their donations?
5. Yes--this is off the top of my head. I would need to put more thought into it.
- agumonkey 10y agoDistributed archiving feels like oral tradition. I'm smiling.
- intopieces 10y agoHow about a distributed, social archive of music, dedicated to high quality and bit-level verification, with metadata and user discussion? With a ratio economy that rewarded contributions? French police recently raided the infrastructure of such a place, and now it's gone. It was around for 8 years.
- agumonkey 10y agowhat.cd ? it seems like it wasn't that distributed. Also it was illegal; I love music, it appears to me they were music lovers before pirates, am sure there was a lot of rare and valuable content, but it was illegal, I can't really be too sad if they're busted. Who knows, maybe users will organize in a different way to make an more legal repository of music.
- icebraining 10y agoWhat's the legal distinction between what.cd and the Internet Archive?
- agumonkey 10y agoWhat archive.org backs up is already public content ? not paid one. There are exceptions (books and videos) but I assume they are negotiated with rights owners. Did what.cd do this too ? I don't know how they operate, I only heard about them last week.
- icebraining 10y agoWhat archive.org backs up is already public content ? not paid one. Legally, that's irrelevant (except maybe for calculating damages). Publicly available content is just as copyrighted, and paid content may be in the public domain (e.g. printed copies of Oliver Twist). Barring an explicit license, one can't copy any content on any website, except for simply displaying it (there's an implicit license). And you certainly can't re-distribute it. There are exceptions (books and videos) but I assume they are negotiated with rights owners. Why do you assume that, when anyone can upload them? https://archive.org/details/HarryPotterAndTheCursedChild_201607 https://archive.org/details/HarryPotterAndTheCursedChild_201...
- agumonkey 10y agoI assume that because archive.org is a massive open public fucking website, not a closeted circle like what.cd, requiring invitations to even log in apparently. I'll also assume that it's as easy to upload copyrighted material than it is to remove them for the rights owner. You're totally right about the license of publicly available content. I handwaved over it, assuming that people still wouldn't mind backup by a tier as long as it doesn't damage them (and again I'll assume archive.org accepts removal when demanded... which I'm gonna check right now). pse: https://archive.org/about/faqs.php#Rights https://archive.org/about/faqs.php#Rights https://archive.org/about/faqs.php#Movies https://archive.org/about/faqs.php#Movies (search for Who owns the rights to these movies?)
- agumonkey 10y agoDistributed archiving feels like oral tradition. I'm smiling.
- voltagex_ 10y agohttp://iabak.archiveteam.org/#contribute http://iabak.archiveteam.org/#contribute