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I think it's a matter of time before archive.org gets "bought" and dissappears. There should be government sponsored mirrors in many places of the world. The a
by Roark66 17d ago
I think it's a matter of time before archive.org gets "bought" and dissappears. There should be government sponsored mirrors in many places of the world.
The amount of data in archive.org is about 100PB. We're talking 10 racks of disks.
I think archive.org should sell "archive as a service" for let's say $15mln. Half of that would be hardware cost and the deliverable could be 12 DC racks containing entire archive.org.
- tim333 17d agoThe archive is a non profit funded by various foundations and a a congressionally designated depository for U.S. Government documents. They may have a job selling it off without objections.
- hedora 17d agoThey should sell copies. I’m sure some foundation model company would happily hand them more than enough to establish a self sustaining foundation. Also, then there would be multiple copies. They could even give torrent access to libraries.
- knd775 17d agoIf they did this, many websites would immediately opt out or block them.