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I don't donate to them because they're mismanaged like this.

• Aachen 4y ago
  I have in the past, but I'm also holding off until this lawsuit nonsense is done with. Don't need to fatten the lawyer industry with my money for their own mistakes. Running the wayback machine and things like flash emulation is what I want them to do: y'know, archiving stuff and making it available to current systems. I should really look into whether this books lending branch has a chance of taking the web archive stuff down with it and, if so, buy a hard drive and start seeding this torrent that is iirc out there as a decentralized backup of the IA. This data being lost would be similar in proportion to losing GitHub or Wikipedia.
  • pgalvin 4y ago
    There is no decentralised backup of the IA. They’re using 100-200 petabytes of storage. The wayback machine alone is still in the tens of petabytes.
    • pncnmnp 4y ago
      In 2020, the estimated number was around 50 petabytes. I came across an interesting discussion on r/datahoarder regarding this: https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/h02jl4/lets_say_you_wanted_to_back_up_the_internet/ https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/h02jl4/lets_sa...