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Legislation is crafted in the interests of those who would prefer IA didn't exist. We need to have a Bittorrent style P2P system to ensure IA content survives
by rchaud 3y ago
Legislation is crafted in the interests of those who would prefer IA didn't exist.
We need to have a Bittorrent style P2P system to ensure IA content survives and remains shareable in some form if their main storage goes down or ends up acquired/controlled by some untrustworthy actor.
- toomuchtodo 3y agoEvery item in the Internet archive has a torrent file served by the Archive. A list of every item can be retrieved. One could, if motivated, build the equivalent of an ArchiveTeam warrior; instead of grabbing content for archival, you would start up, query for the least available items, retrieve, and then seed the swarm (limited by local disk space available). I maintain a copy of the Internet Archive catalog/item metadata in Backblaze B2, it’s fairly lightweight (comparatively). You’ll need ~500PB of coordinated decentralized storage to ensure high durability, but can still achieve a somewhat favorable outcome with ~220PB.
- rchaud 3y agoGood to know! Their magazine archive is amazing, so I kay try to maintain a seed for some of those categories.