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Re: Thank you for helping us increase our bandwidth

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Post by Paul-ish »

city41 wrote: post #189
Paul-ish wrote: post #144

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There are exemptions to DMCA for certain content. > Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that have become obsolete and which require the original media or hardware as a condition of access. A format shall be considered obsolete if the machine or system necessary to render perceptible a work stored in that format is no longer manufactured or is no longer reasonably available in the commercial marke…

That doesn't seem to stop Nintendo from shutting down ROM sites left and right. For example, emuparadise has complied and taken down all ROMs: https://www.emuparadise.me/emuparadise-changing.php But here is a complete NES ROM set, just sitting there, on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/NESrompack I just find it strange. Nintendo is vehement about their IP. For archive.org to get an exception doesn't make sens…

You raise good points. I wonder what a copyright lawyer would have to say.

Re: Thank you for helping us increase our bandwidth

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Post by textfiles »

bane wrote: post #180
dmd wrote: post #61

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I'm very worried about its backups and what happens when the next Big One hits SF. As far as I've ever been able to determine from talking to anyone at IA (e.g., Kahle, Scott), they don't really have any sort of backups that could actually be restored from in a disaster situation.

Whatever happened to their copy in Canada? https://blog.archive.org/2016/12/03/faqs-about-the-internet-...

Without going too much into it (not my place) it exists.

Re: Thank you for helping us increase our bandwidth

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Post by iofiiiiiiiii »

teekert wrote: post #131

I clicked this article to look for ways to contribute.. bandwidth. But there is no torrent/ipfs like method to help, just cash. I'd be happy to run a service that would help Wikipedia, archive.org, ddg (any service I believe in) decentralize. I always keep my Ubuntu torrents open for launch days and some beyond. I have a server running and I don't need my 50/50 fiber all the time. If I was a better software dev, I'd…

Yeah, I am in the same boat - I have boatloads of unutilized bandwidth and storage space that I would love to contribute to a worthy cause like archive.org.

Ideally, I would like to be able to point at some RSS feed of torrents of relevant archive.org collections (whatever the curators believe popular enough to benefit from peer-to-peer distribution). I could then set a torrent client to donwload and seed everything on this feed.

Re: Thank you for helping us increase our bandwidth

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Post by iofiiiiiiiii »

EE84M3i wrote: post #23
SteveNuts wrote: post #3

I'm really surprised they don't use more CDN for this. Anyone know the reason why it isn't served by something like cloudflare?

The geographic distribution benefits for archive.org seem minimal to me - for the actual content high latency isn't a big deal.

Geographic locationa affects far more than just latency. Even though you may have a 100 Mbps link on both client and server , only 10 Mbps might make it across the Atlantic Ocean. Connections between countries/ISPs are not unlimited in capacity!

Re: Thank you for helping us increase our bandwidth

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Post by bits_n_bytes »

Aeolun wrote: post #165
MaxBarraclough wrote: post #161

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I'm sure I'm not the only one who'd be interested in reading more of this. Is there a reason your conversation can't proceed on HackerNews?

Or at least update us on the conclusion :)

You can follow the thread on the NANOG list:

https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2020-May/107720.ht...

Re: Thank you for helping us increase our bandwidth

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Post by textfiles »

teekert wrote: post #147
TeMPOraL wrote: post #134

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> just cash This is almost always the best and most efficient way you can help a cause. You donating infrastructure means donating them extra work - they'll need to integrate and keep track of it, as well as manage a relationship with you (in particular, a risk of problems with you or your service). Meanwhile, with extra cash, they can buy what they need and what integrates well, or pay the most effective specialists…

But I have bandwidth to share, not cash. I'm already at the lowest subscription level with my ISP. I understand the argument, but if there was a general technical solution this would be nice, right?

If you have bandwidth to share but not cash, use the bandwidth to promote sending cash to the archive. :)

Re: Thank you for helping us increase our bandwidth

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Post by gxon »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #142
tommica wrote: post #122

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What would be the incentive to use that feature over just deleting the tweet?

There wouldn't be, therefore tweets shouldn't be deletable after a set period of time.

I'm not sure I like this for most users who don't have any kind of following or well developed sense of what is and is not appropriate to post.

I do like this a lot for high profile accounts. It seems fair that if you're verified and have a very large number of followers, you are operating at a privileged level of impact and should lose your right to delete tweets any tweets.

Re: Thank you for helping us increase our bandwidth

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Post by bane »

textfiles wrote: post #192
bane wrote: post #180

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Whatever happened to their copy in Canada? https://blog.archive.org/2016/12/03/faqs-about-the-internet-...

Without going too much into it (not my place) it exists.

Thanks, I'm glad to hear it! It sounds like IA is aware of the need to have multiple approaches (and places) to backup as much of the data as possible.

Re: Thank you for helping us increase our bandwidth

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Post by whanamura »

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 Prelinger films, .Gov data, some audio and texts.

You can get an update on decentralized storage at our DWeb Meetup tomorrow (5/13 at 10 AM pacific, 5 PM UTC)

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dweb-meet-up-virtual-decentrali...

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