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Done. It is called IPFS. The IA already supports it. https://github.com/internetarchive/dweb-archive/blob/master/...
IPFS has shown that the protocol is fundamentally broken at the level of growth they want to achieve and it is already extremely slow as it is. It often takes several minutes to locate a single file.
Especially if it's about having an Internet Archive backup.
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This is literally torrents. Just give up
The problem with torrents is they have a bad reputation since people use it to steal and redistribute other people’s content without their consent.
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The problem with torrents is they have a bad reputation since people use it to steal and redistribute other people’s content without their consent.
Is there any form of torrent where you can do a full text search? That, to me, is the more important problem with torrents.
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The problem with torrents is they have a bad reputation since people use it to steal and redistribute other people’s content without their consent.
Give it a good reputation then. What are some legal torrent trackers?
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Do you have any examples?
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kiwifarms could spin up their own infrastructure, serve their own content for the world, but it turns out technology is a social problem more than a technical problem.
anyone that wants to stand up and be the digital backbone of “kiwi farms” can, but only the internet archive gets flack for not volunteering to be the literal kiwi farm.
for example, the pirate bay goes offline all the time, but it turns out the people that use it, care enough to keep it online themselves.
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Some people are motivated by more than just financial incentive.
That's true, but something like archiving the internet is very costly, IA has an annual budget in the tens of millions.
We are talking about an (almost) worldwide archive after all.
Does anyone know who is targeting the Internet Archive, and why? I get the impression the attacks are too sophisticated for it to just be vandal punks.
I think you should draw your own more informed conclusions, but it smells a lot like feds to me.
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Give it a good reputation then. What are some legal torrent trackers?
What is your definition of a legal torrent tracker? I was not aware there were even any illegal ones.
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The problem with torrents is they have a bad reputation since people use it to steal and redistribute other people’s content without their consent.
To me this is like saying you shouldn't use a knife because they are also used by criminals.