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Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)

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Re: Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)

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Post by dhzhzjsbevs »

ls15 wrote: post #185
Barrin92 wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's already the case minus the last ~70 years or so. The overwhelming majority of our knowledge is in the public domain, in particular cultural artifacts. It's a nice sentiment but like, people can already go to gutenberg.org and download pretty much most important works of literature in existence and most books have like 5k downloads so there's that.

Hasn't been more knowledge published in the last 70 years than during all the times before? More than 2 million new books get published every year.

I don't know what twitter you've been reading but I wouldn't call what I see "knowledge".

Re: Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)

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Post by gmiller123456 »

jrm4 wrote: post #124

Again, it's just insane to me that we don't even much have a meaningful discussion of: "Hey, wait, literally everyone could have the entire library of Alexandria in their house for a couple hundred bucks per person. Like, all the knowledge ever. Maybe that should be considered the good default of things. At least one in every town that everyone could use, for free, forever, without restriction to ANY of the knowledge…

As a kid, my parents had a full copy of the Library of Alexandria on the coffee table. Everyone else just called it an ashtray. (Sorry, too soon?)

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Post by throwaway742 »

gmiller123456 wrote: post #202
jrm4 wrote: post #124

Again, it's just insane to me that we don't even much have a meaningful discussion of: "Hey, wait, literally everyone could have the entire library of Alexandria in their house for a couple hundred bucks per person. Like, all the knowledge ever. Maybe that should be considered the good default of things. At least one in every town that everyone could use, for free, forever, without restriction to ANY of the knowledge…

As a kid, my parents had a full copy of the Library of Alexandria on the coffee table. Everyone else just called it an ashtray. (Sorry, too soon?)

I haven't actually laughed for like a month. Thanks.

Re: Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)

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Post by throwaway742 »

sudosysgen wrote: post #152
pnutjam wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I found a book I've been looking for, but it was only an image scan pdf. I OCR'ed it, and I'm slowly fixing the errors and converting to epub. Tedious, but interesting.

Kudos to you, but I would probably be wary of admitting to participate in the illegal book piracy scene unless your pseudonymity is really tight. Thanks a lot for helping out, though.

Without knowing what book it is who would sue? I doubt the FBI is investigating random HN comments for literature piracy.

Re: Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)

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Post by throwaway742 »

killingtime74 wrote: post #164
killingtime74 wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here are 2x 16tb drives for ~$900 AUD ($600 USD), RAID them. https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/710309 Put it in a case with all parts, $800USD all up?

The guy asked a question then edited his comment

What did it say before?

Re: Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)

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Post by throwaway742 »

stavros wrote: post #120

I see things like this, and I wonder why the following software doesn't exist: I want a piece of software to which I can add a collection of files, say multiple TB. The software will then behave a bit like a BitTorrent tracker, and know which peer has which files. A peer joining this swarm will be able to say "I want to donate X GB of space", and the tracker would tell it "OK, then download and seed these files, whic…

Private trackers do this somewhat via incentives. Files with less seeds earn you more bonus points. If you want to farm BP you can sort files by seeders and download poorly seeded torrents.

Re: Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)

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Post by throwaway742 »

sedatk wrote: post #159
stavros wrote: post #120

I see things like this, and I wonder why the following software doesn't exist: I want a piece of software to which I can add a collection of files, say multiple TB. The software will then behave a bit like a BitTorrent tracker, and know which peer has which files. A peer joining this swarm will be able to say "I want to donate X GB of space", and the tracker would tell it "OK, then download and seed these files, whic…

Donating space is only half of the equation. I think donating bandwidth is a more significant aspect, especially with ISP's like Comcast which provide very little upload bandwidth compared to download. You'd expect that uploads wouldn't impact download speeds, but it's not the case. A saturated upload bandwidth means, ACK packets getting delayed, which means connections would be established way more slower. So, it's…

You can always implement QoS or something like FQ_Codel.

Re: Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)

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Post by jjeaff »

ls15 wrote: post #185
Barrin92 wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's already the case minus the last ~70 years or so. The overwhelming majority of our knowledge is in the public domain, in particular cultural artifacts. It's a nice sentiment but like, people can already go to gutenberg.org and download pretty much most important works of literature in existence and most books have like 5k downloads so there's that.

Hasn't been more knowledge published in the last 70 years than during all the times before? More than 2 million new books get published every year.

I assume they are referring to the fact that books older than about 70 years are in the public domain. The rest are protected by copyright and not free.

Re: Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)

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Post by plmu »

Excellent. I hope more and more people start to see how absurd and evil the concept of "intellectual property" is. It should be totally rejected and any form of keeping useful information for yourself should be shunned and tabooized. In todays world, many have been programmed to believe that the would could not exits without such immoral restrictions, which is horrible.
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