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Internet Archive Starts Seeding 1,398,875 Torrents
- adrianwaj 14y agoThere should be a formal way of coupling a torrent file with a bitcoin address, some way of donating money to the creator but trusting that the address is the correct one.. maybe when content is first released it's registered somewhere alongside a bitcoin address and this shows up on the creator's website too.
- vasco 14y agoGlad to see more legitimate uses of bitorrent which currently are basically getting new linux distros and the odd free indie movie.
- unimpressive 14y agoThis. I love the concept of peer to peer services like bittorrent. I just wish they were used more often for legitimate downloads.
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- div 14y agoBlizzard also uses bittorrent to distribute their games and all patches for their games. I'm not sure about other game companies, but I'd be surprised if Blizzard was the only company doing this.
- FreebytesSector 14y agoLeague of Legends also uses it in their download client.
- andybak 14y agoLibre Office uses torrents too.
- blhack 14y agoI bet you use bittorrent more than you realize. There are at least several, that I know of, content distributors that package their own bittorrent client in their "downloader" (think what happens when you install chrome).
- andrewcooke 14y agoare people aware that the internet archive includes netlabels with a huge amount of free music? http://archive.org/details/netlabels http://archive.org/details/netlabels (there is some decent chilean electronica at http://archive.org/details/pueblo_nuevo http://archive.org/details/pueblo_nuevo for example; clinical have experimental jazz http://archive.org/details/clinicalarchives http://archive.org/details/clinicalarchives (some of it is a bit freaky for me, but their collections are ok)) trying to work out if it's available via torrent now...
- santigepigon 14y agoYes! A lot of the audio is available via torrent now [1]. "Decent chilean electronica" nice, but the Internet Archive has an impressive collection of live music; you can thank the Grateful Dead for letting people tape their concerts [2]. [1] http://archive.org/details/bittorrentaudio http://archive.org/details/bittorrentaudio [2] http://blog.archive.org/2012/03/27/sharing-works-100000-concert-recordings-for-free/ http://blog.archive.org/2012/03/27/sharing-works-100000-conc...
- andrewcooke 14y agoi'll tell my grandpa about the dead stuff, thanks. meanwhile, how can you tell if a particular track is on a torrent? or how can you to search for files on torrents? ah, ok, so if it's a torrent it's listed as such in the download links. and it's the etree collection (the concerts) that seems to be what is available. you can search with "collection:etree" in the search. so "bluegrass AND collection:etree", for example.
- hexagonal 14y agoRight now the most popular archive.org torrent is a collection of My Little Pony porn from /r/clopclop.
- est 14y agohttp://bt1.archive.org/hotlist.php http://bt1.archive.org/hotlist.php second popular one.
- underscor 14y agoIt's two of the top three in the most snatched list, though!
- pjscott 14y agoI'm genuinely impressed that we, as a society, have already managed to create a 2.31 GB collection of My Little Pony porn. According to Wikipedia, the first episode aired 668 days ago, so that's an average of 3.7 MB per day. Imagine, if you will, a 343 baud modem continuously sending cartoon porn of talking ponies who are friends. This is one of our species' more embarrassing amazing achievements.
- treelovinhippie 14y agoAwesome! Though I wish archive.org was redesigned to make it easier to browse files. Too much text, too little video/image previews.
- riordan 14y agoThis is among the most brilliant digital preservation strategies I've encountered. You want to make sure your material lasts as long as possible? Get it out on bittorrent. End of story. We wonder what books scholars will write about 500 years from now. It won't be what's popular, it'll be whats pirated.
- dfc 14y agoI do not understand your last comment? None of the material on archive.org is pirated. It is all freely available, legally...
- jmonegro 14y agoHe does not mean it as a comment towards archive.org, he means information in general. With increasing threats to free speech and censorship, he suggests that the information that's not popular - or, censored/manipulated/bubbled by mass media/governments/etc. - can only survive through decentralized means of storage and distribution, like BitTorrent. In essence, he argues that BitTorrent can be a fantastic way of digital preservation, which is the goal of archive.org, and I suspect he uses the word 'pirated' interchangeably with 'torrented', since that's what BitTorrent is commonly associated with.
- dfc 14y agoBittorrent and other decentralized systems are not good choices for unpopular data. As another commenter pointed out unpopular torrents will only be seeded by archive.org.
- nar 14y agoI'd argue that bittorrent is still better for unpopular data then direct downloads. I think BT makes downloading and sharing accessible enough that more people would be encouraged to download more than they normally would and it is for sure easier for someone to see a request for a reseed for an unpopular torrent and load it up onto their tracker for a few hours than it is to try and rehost it.
- postfuturist 14y agoThe Internet Archive is the most important project on the internet today, preserving culture. I've already gained so much from it myself. They work hard to make sure that the artifacts of our culture are not lost. They are totally winning, and these torrents are an awesome step in that process.
- tomflack 14y agoAgreed. In particular I love their public domain movie archive. It is a crime that with extended copyrights new films won't be added to it any time soon.
- tsahyt 14y agoarchive.org is one of the most brilliant things I've ever seen on the internet. I'm amazed since I first stumbled over it about 12 years ago or so. Free knowledge to everyone, that's the way to go to make the world a better place.
- drostie 14y agoJust to be clear, the top shares right now are Asimov's Foundation trilogy (always a good read), a bunch of films, and My Little Pony pornography. "Free knowledge to everyone" -- we're not quite there yet, and I would stick with the various OpenCourseWare-type free-university-education initiatives. The Internet Archive as I understand it is aiming more to be a library than a synthetic learning resource.
- tsahyt 14y agoMy Little Pony pornography? What the ...? I was referring to knowledge not as in education but as in the corpus of all media. For learning resources universities will almost always be a better bet. That's what they're for after all (and research, obviously).
- Zirro 14y ago"My Little Pony pornography? What the ...?" Rule 34 of the Internet. If it exists, there will be porn of it. In this case, the new series My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic has received a lot of attention due to Bronies, who are men and women outside of the target audience, yet fans of the show. A minority of them create and consume this kind of content.
- wcchandler 14y agoDoes anybody have a magnet URI? The site is overloaded right now.
- xur17 14y agoAre there any good ways to contribute bandwidth and storage to this without manually choosing and downloading a bunch of files? I would love to dedicate a few 100gb of storage to mirroring some of these files automatically (I have plenty of bandwidth to go with that too).