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I wonder how many offers are legitimate.
An org amidst an attack might not be the most open to giving credentials and access to strangers.
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What is your definition of a legal torrent tracker? I was not aware there were even any illegal ones.
A tracker that only tracks legal torrents, e.g. free software, OCRemix content, etc.
How would you keep the definition of legality without a centralizing authority?
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#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
What is your definition of a legal torrent tracker? I was not aware there were even any illegal ones.
A tracker that only tracks legal torrents, e.g. free software, OCRemix content, etc.
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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.
> I was not aware there were even any illegal ones.
Depends on the jurisdiction. Remember what happened in the The Pirate Bay trial?
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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.
The problem with file transfer is they have a bad reputation since people use it to [insert illegal or immoral activity here].
Then rename it from "torrent" to something else.
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#166We need archives built on decentralized storage. Don't get me wrong, I really like and support the work Internet Archive is doing, but preserving history is too important to entrust it solely to singular entities, which means singular points of failure.
Yea so, who pays for the decentralized storage long term? What happens when someone storing decentralized data decides to exit? Will data be copied to multiple places, who is going to pay for doubling, tripling or more the storage costs for backups?
Centralized entities emerge to absorb costs because nobody else can do it as efficiently alone.
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Yes, they could, that's not much different than a single company distributing the archive to multiple storage centers though. My original comment was about it being more cost effective for a single company to do that than coordinating with a bunch of disjoint entities.
Our digital memory shouldn't be in the hands of a small number of organizations in my view. You're right about cost effectiveness. There are pros and cons to both but it's not just external threats that have to be considered. History has always gotten rewritten throughout time. If you have a giant library it's easier for bad actors to gain influence and alter certain books, or remove them. This isn't just theoretical…
>Our digital memory shouldn't be in the hands of a small number of organizations in my view.
I would wager at least 95% of "digital memory" archived is just absolute garbage from SEO spam to just some small websites holding no actual value.
The true digital memory of the world is almost entirely behind the walls of reddit, twitter, facebook, and very few other sites. The internet landscape has changed massively from the 90s and 2000s.
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#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Humble Bundle. Various Linux iso
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> nowhere near enough people actually put their storage where their mouths are. Typically because most people who have the upload, don't know that they can. And if they come to the notion on their own, they won't know how. If they put the notion to a search engine, the keywords they come up with probably don't return the needed ELI5 page. As in: How do I [?] for the Internet Archive? , most folks won't know what [?]…
This is literally torrents. Just give up
> This is literally torrents. Just give up
Most casual visitors to IA don't know that. Which is the point.
Giving up is for others.
Re: Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens
#170We need archives built on decentralized storage. Don't get me wrong, I really like and support the work Internet Archive is doing, but preserving history is too important to entrust it solely to singular entities, which means singular points of failure.
Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe https://www.lockss.org/ This is a brilliant system relying on a randomised consensus protocol. I wanted to do my info sec dissertation on it, but its security model is extremely well thought out. There wasn't anything I felt I could add to it.
Is there a high level explanation of the model?