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userbinator on May 26, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Backing Up of the Internet Archive Continues

One of the comments there brought up an interesting point:

Is this pure archival, meaning a onetime download and no uploads?

Imagine a distributed, peer-to-peer style Internet Archive. That would be awesome. It reminds me of a decade ago, when the rapid rise of P2P file sharing (mostly torrents) made it possible to find literally anything that existed and someone felt neighbourly enough to share. Multimedia, software, books, anything that was present in digital form. It was probably the closest we've ever been to a "global library", but too bad antipiracy groups/commercial interests/security focus mostly killed it off and replaced it with locked-down content silos...

icebraining on May 26, 2015 | [–]

Since it uses git-annex, it actually can fetch files in a P2P fashion, using Bittorrent: http://git-annex.branchable.com/special_remotes/bittorrent/

bane on May 26, 2015 | [–]

One thing to note, IA distributes many of their items via Torrent (as a download option).

I've kind of found it interesting TPB doesn't mirror all of them.

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