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Re: The Geocities Torrent (~1TB of awesomeness)

#11

Post by jacquesm »

pavel_lishin wrote: post #9
jacquesm wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been doing that for the last 12 months, and the collection is significantly larger than that. http://www.reocities.com/

Have you grabbed the torrent they're offering?

I would be very surprised if there is anything in there that is not in reocities yet but I will certainly do a comparison.

I'll have to run that against all the deletion requests as well for this content because chances are fairly large that lots of it has already been removed at the request of the owners.

Re: The Geocities Torrent (~1TB of awesomeness)

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Post by a1k0n »

jacquesm wrote: post #11
pavel_lishin wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you grabbed the torrent they're offering?

I would be very surprised if there is anything in there that is not in reocities yet but I will certainly do a comparison. I'll have to run that against all the deletion requests as well for this content because chances are fairly large that lots of it has already been removed at the request of the owners.

Have you tried de-duping files to save space? I imagine there's a finite number of MIDI files and "under construction" GIFs that could just be symlinked to save a ton of space...

Re: The Geocities Torrent (~1TB of awesomeness)

#15

Post by arst »

jacquesm wrote: post #7
corin_ wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I imagine at least somebody will download to a server and host them all there. Might grab a new 1TB drive into one of my servers and do it if I'm bored enough...

I've been doing that for the last 12 months, and the collection is significantly larger than that. http://www.reocities.com/

While I think the web is probably a better place with reocities than without it, slapping ads on this content feels a tad bit slimy to me. I'm curious to hear your take on the ethical and legal implications of it.

Re: The Geocities Torrent (~1TB of awesomeness)

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Post by jacquesm »

arst wrote: post #15
jacquesm wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been doing that for the last 12 months, and the collection is significantly larger than that. http://www.reocities.com/

While I think the web is probably a better place with reocities than without it, slapping ads on this content feels a tad bit slimy to me. I'm curious to hear your take on the ethical and legal implications of it.

The ads are actually a boost for a HN'er.

And let's suppose for a second that they were not (as they have not been in the past), reocities has cost a fairly large amount of money to date (instead of made money, as you suggest), not a single person that has asked me to remove the content has ever commented on the presence of the ads, and neither has anybody that has found their stuff again because I backed it up.

On the contrary, the reactions have been almost 100% positive with a very few exceptions.

Re: The Geocities Torrent (~1TB of awesomeness)

#17

Post by jacquesm »

a1k0n wrote: post #14
jacquesm wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would be very surprised if there is anything in there that is not in reocities yet but I will certainly do a comparison. I'll have to run that against all the deletion requests as well for this content because chances are fairly large that lots of it has already been removed at the request of the owners.

Have you tried de-duping files to save space? I imagine there's a finite number of MIDI files and "under construction" GIFs that could just be symlinked to save a ton of space...

Space is not the problem, I've got plenty of that. The bigger problem is that the underlying filesystem is having some problems dealing with the total number of files.

Total disk space usage on the array that holds reocities is about 10.5 T (that includes a master copy though) and runs to 233 million files.

Re: The Geocities Torrent (~1TB of awesomeness)

#18

Post by vyrotek »

jacquesm wrote: post #7
corin_ wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I imagine at least somebody will download to a server and host them all there. Might grab a new 1TB drive into one of my servers and do it if I'm bored enough...

I've been doing that for the last 12 months, and the collection is significantly larger than that. http://www.reocities.com/

Ah ha! So here's where you've all been hiding. http://www.reocities.com/TimesSquare/1266/
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