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Why would that happen to a legal torrent of interest to a scholarly community? Are we going to run out of Bronte scholars? Will they not have computers and an

• tablespoon 5y ago
  It might be helpful for you to try to think of reasons why your idea is wrong, rather than reasons why it is right. How many crowdfunding projects have failed to deliver? Do people who actually do archiving consider torrents to be a durable storage medium, like you seem to think? Who's responsibility would it be to keep a (perhaps) 100GB+ torrent seeded? Are you just assuming "someone else"? What do you think the longevity of the BitTorrent protocol will be? What's the chance it will be progressively harder to use over time (e.g. https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/6246151319715840 https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/6246151319715840, https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2021/04/15/built-in-ftp-implementation-to-be-removed-in-firefox-90/ https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2021/04/15/built-in-ftp-impl...)? How tech savvy to do think Bronte scholars are? How many Bronte do you think there are? Do you think they're just doing Bronte scholarship all the time?
  • BizarroLand 5y ago
    Once again, appeals to ignorance, hasty generalizations, false dichotomies and slippery slopes. All logical fallacies. Convincing yourself that the task is impossible and doomed to fail does not make it impossible and doomed to fail.