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The challenges have been solved already. The article talks about splitting it into 42k 500GB chunks. BitTorrent Sync will happily deal with 500GB, and open trac
by slagfart 12y ago
The challenges have been solved already. The article talks about splitting it into 42k 500GB chunks. BitTorrent Sync will happily deal with 500GB, and open trackers are available that can report the counts of users in a swarm.
To complete it, just build a web front-end that provides the least-populous BTSync key from the pool. People can then paste it into their client and contribute.
- Mithrandir 12y agoBT Sync was considered for a related Archive Team project [1], but was ruled out as it is (currently) proprietary. 1: http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Valhalla#Non-options http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Valhalla#Non-opti...
- slagfart 12y agoOk - but that's the only protest? An open version would satisfy all the requirements? Syncthing.net, or even plain old Bittorrent should do (especially if it's one static file per 500GB).