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Here's what George Blood, the digitizer, reports: "laser turntables are designed to play 33rpm discs. Most will not spin at 78rpm. There is broad agreement they do not sound as goo…

Ok, I turned to the expert himself, George Blood, who responded: "laser turntables are designed to play 33rpm discs. Most will not spin at 78rpm. There is broad agreement they do n…

Here's what George Blood, the IA digitization expert, said: "LPs are soft and played with a very small diamond. 78s are made from shellac which is hard and abrasive. Originally the…

I work with the Internet Archive, and asked George Blood about the wear and tear using a stylus. Here's what he had to say: "LPs are soft and played with a very small diamond. 78s …

Here's what our digitization expert, George Blood, has to say: LPs are soft and played with a very small diamond. 78s are made from shellac which is hard and abrasive. Originally t…

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Good thing is Internet Archive is a nonprofit, so cannot be acquired.

The Internet Archive already stores some big public domain data sets in IPFS/Filecoin: Prelinger Films & Librivox audiobooks. They've been partnering with Protocol Labs for 5 years…

Sorry, "we" being the Internet Archive.

Hey, we are working with Filecoin.ai on a pilot program where their new minors in Filecoin Discover will host some of our open data sets like Prelinger Films and .Gov web pages. It…

Hey,for those who would like to help the Internet Archive with their excess storage, we are ginning up a project with Filecoin.ai to store some of our open data collections like Pr…