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

Post by bayindirh » Mon, Jul 04, 2022, 1:46 PM UTC

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I can't imagine getting rid of it completely would have good effects, as it would make any large scale production impossible. You might still get a few blog post, but getting books produced will be tricky and something big like a movie might be outright impossible. This is doubly true in the modern digital world were everything can be copied in a fraction of a second and where the piracy site, not the authors, will b…

As a jumping-off point for thought: Piracy-by-default would work very well in a world where access to a work is not charged, but the social custom is that revenue is collected via pre- or during-production crowdfunding You may see lower revenues, but how much cost is currently poured into resolving licensing / investing in DRM / etc, all for works to be pirated anyway?

Post by criddell » Mon, Jul 04, 2022, 2:05 PM UTC

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HTTP connections can be used as a weapon against others. One example is China’s Great Cannon. https://citizenlab.ca/2015/04/chinas-great-cannon/

That's quite dated by now. If you are in a position to inject traffic, you are likely also able to simply use that uplink to send traffic of your own. I'd be surprised if this is still in use, especially outside of China (or a poor not-so-tech-savvy country like North Korea) and wasn't just a quick hack at the time.

Post by npteljes » Mon, Jul 04, 2022, 2:36 PM UTC

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Freenet is built around similar ideas, combined with encryption an anonymization. Which hopefully adds the benefit of you not being legally liable of distributing CSAM. The gist of Freenet is that you can operate a freesite or upload files, and the content is redundantly dispersed in encrypted parts among a number of other Freenet peers. They don't know what they're hosting and neither do you, the client just fills u…

My idea is similar but slightly different. You'd run your client and then choose whose provider's data to seed, eg you'd add the Internet Archive and Libgen to your datasets. Only those entities would be able to push data to you, nobody else, so if you trust the providers you specified, you should be good.

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jul 04, 2022, 2:58 PM UTC

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Insane in the abstract, but not exactly unfathomable. Who would make money off of that, and who else makes money off of it's absense?

Imagine for a split second an idea of value that doesn't start and end with private profit

Post by stavros » Mon, Jul 04, 2022, 3:30 PM UTC

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My idea is similar but slightly different. You'd run your client and then choose whose provider's data to seed, eg you'd add the Internet Archive and Libgen to your datasets. Only those entities would be able to push data to you, nobody else, so if you trust the providers you specified, you should be good.

I remembered that I read about something like that before. I think this was it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage@home Further this lead me to distributed data stores: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_data_store#Peer_ne...