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In my opinion, data should be mirrored on a torrent in addition to institutional servers (which can also provide checksums). Torrents offload the bandwidth prob
by mirker 5y ago
In my opinion, data should be mirrored on a torrent in addition to institutional servers (which can also provide checksums). Torrents offload the bandwidth problems from the institute to users and stay up if people use the data.
But that probably won’t happen because torrents are a dirty word due to illegal activity and they also give up control of the data.
- shellac 5y agoSee https://academictorrents.com/ https://academictorrents.com/. We serve a couple of datasets using this, in addition to our regular system, due to their size.
- mirker 5y agoI’m familiar with the site but I didn’t realize it was used as a primary source. If so, then I think this is a good example.