I will grab this torrent when I get home and make it a permanent seed, alongside the one outing nazis in Patriot Front.
How would you recommend someone go about archiving important parts of the IA? Just external drives?
The Internet Archive is, and I really want to emphasize this, Fucking Huge. If you want to help archive it, every upload has an associated torrent you can download and help seed. Torrenting itself isn't illegal, only torrenting illegal stuff like copyrighted movies. You can buy a relatively cheap refurbished HDD of whatever size you want, set up qBittorrent, and torrent the uploads that you want to make sure are available even if the Internet Archive has to take them down or has a critical data loss failure.
Thank you so much for the advice! I want to preserve important documents like the bill of rights and the constitution, as well as sexual education material, especially stuff pertaining to women and reproductive health. Also banned books. Things the facists are trying to purge and things that are important to me.
i’m not smart enough for this but maybe look to communities like r/DataHoarder to get started
Inb4 it gets DDoS'd again
hi spujb. Only 98gb? I can mirror that 🤷♀️
I'm gonna download it when I get home and put on a few USBs. They won't be connected to any device and will be stored in safes.
Can't remote wipe data that's not connected.
The more backups of important information we have the better.
I suggest also mirroring on https://academictorrents.com/
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The best Kate
We are screwed if the Internet Archive goes down, right?
Seems like a huge point of failure for one entity.
Agreed, I think the biggest issue though is just scale. It’s over 100 petabytes of data. Not outside the realm of big cloud providers to mirror, but they don’t really give a shit. It would require some sort of significant distributed software solution for the community to work with. Not impossible, but as far as I know, nobody’s taken up the mantle yet as I think it would need custom software just to begin the solution of how to distribute it as a sharded set of community mirrors, different people just mirroring individual pieces.
Because the feds didn't already have it out for IA.
Get ready to Donate to their legal defense fund
As long as money still means something after Elon is through with the Treasury...
It it long past overdue for the Internet Archive to move to the EU or Switzerland or something.
Would be best if there were several mirrors in several countries. It's unfortunately too large to realistically host via crowd sourcing. The best you could do is something ala Storj where fragments are redundantly distributed across various hosts.
you’re right and you should say it but it makes me sad
Was this previously public data? Not illegal to download an torrent, right?
from the linked page
Excludes corrupt datasets and data not publicly accessible.
well and truly based
Good thing they’re based far from the US in… oh.
Time to download all of it!
Same, especially before the inevitable attacks on the Internet Archive to come. Who knows what nonsense will be in the works to try and get this removed, or the whole project shut down in the coming years.
it sounds like it's only stuff that was already publicly available tho
Some of the publicly available data is disappearing under the new administration. Most notably information about COVID, long COVID, vaccines, and bird flu is disappearing. Presumably, this data dump contains the missing data.
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