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It's possible that over the long term it could be backed up via torrents. However, in the short term the only way to save the archive is for IA to sell it. I ho
by mantap 6y ago
It's possible that over the long term it could be backed up via torrents. However, in the short term the only way to save the archive is for IA to sell it. I hope they swallow their pride and do so.
- sp332 6y agoTorrents are a distribution mechanism, not storage. Many IA items already have torrent links available (with a fallback to a "web seed" since they are mostly not seeded).
- toomuchtodo 6y agoRoughly 44 million items are available via torrent (I maintain a catalog of IA items independent of IA, with each item's torrent file). Wayback data is not (to my knowledge). This is important, as IA then can act as a global metadata catalog for the items, with the underlying content being served up through an uncoordinated fleet of seeders. I think many might agree that the time has arrived for this data to live on globally distributed storage nodes. It would be helpful if IA published Wayback data files over torrents, alongside cryptographic signatures of the files (for attestation and provenance purposes, as Wayback data has been used in legal proceedings and you would want that trust in the data maintained regardless of where the bits were retrieved from for hydrating the WARC client side).
- aahhahahaaa 6y agoI kind of hate to think that someone would want to buy it and attempt to turn a profit.