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Why isn't archive.org distributed P2P at this point? Instant, massive, redundancy. Let me download some software and allocate how much of my drive space i'd l
by brador 12y ago
Why isn't archive.org distributed P2P at this point? Instant, massive, redundancy.
Let me download some software and allocate how much of my drive space i'd like to help them with. The software would then intelligently use that space as their distributed backup system. Then they can focus on collection and collation with one less thing to worry about.
- drapper 12y agoIt is, partly at least, check http://blog.archive.org/2012/08/07/over-1000000-torrents-of-downloadable-books-music-and-movies/ http://blog.archive.org/2012/08/07/over-1000000-torrents-of-...
- r721 12y ago"Hot List" looks funny: http://bt1.archive.org/hotlist.php http://bt1.archive.org/hotlist.php Are those torrents totally not moderated?
- ivank 12y agoI'll assume IA has 20PB+ of unique data today, going by https://archive.org/web/petabox.php https://archive.org/web/petabox.php Let's guess that the average person can contribute some 300GB of their disk space. If IA wants to keep a minimum of 5 copies on the network (probably a safe number given how many people will be constantly dropping out), they need (20x1024x1024x5)/300 = 349,525 people contributing their disk space. That doesn't seem even close to attainable.
- cma 12y agoIf the goal is perfection rather than triage.
- true_religion 12y agoThat's not even a million people. I originally thought that wasn't a lot of people. However, Folding@Home (which ought to be the most well known share-processing power group) only has 179,234 computers in its network.
- joepie91_ 12y agoThat would be Freenet. There's a reason it's considered niche software.