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Re:The US Library of Congress has put 25M items free online by toomuchtodo on Sunday May 28, 2017 @07:24PM (#14436537)
Re:The US Library of Congress has put 25M items free online by voltagex_ on Sunday May 28, 2017 @10:49PM (#14437120)
If someone wants to pay for / donate 100GB worth of bandwidth on a VPS somewhere, I'll do it.
Re:The US Library of Congress has put 25M items free online by tty7 on Sunday May 28, 2017 @11:12PM (#14437173)
scaleway: €2.99/m 200Mbit/s Unmetered bandwidth
Re:The US Library of Congress has put 25M items free online by voltagex_ on Sunday May 28, 2017 @11:31PM (#14437240)
Okay, so who's going to spot me 3 EUR? ;)
Re:The US Library of Congress has put 25M items free online by toomuchtodo on Monday May 29, 2017 @12:04AM (#14437348)
Could TransferWise you the $3.35USD. That work?
Re:The US Library of Congress has put 25M items free online by voltagex_ on Monday May 29, 2017 @12:45AM (#14437448)
Having never done this before I've got to have a look at the internetarchive tool first, but yes, that would work (I'd hate to take your money then not be able to deliver).
Re:The US Library of Congress has put 25M items free online by voltagex_ on Monday May 29, 2017 @01:00AM (#14437481)
This thread is getting too long; how do I contact you?
Re:The US Library of Congress has put 25M items free online by tombrossman on Monday May 29, 2017 @08:19AM (#14438720)
This amount of usage falls well within most VPS companies' free trial / promo codes offerings and should cost you nothing. Use a throwaway email account and drop it after a month.

AWS will give you a whole year if you haven't tried them yet and the other popular VPS companies (DO, Linode, etc.) all will give you at least $10 startup credit. This is probably simpler and faster than figuring out how to receive <$4 from some random internet commenter.

Re:The US Library of Congress has put 25M items free online by voltagex_ on Monday May 29, 2017 @08:59AM (#14438862)
Yes. This isn't the first time I've tried to contact toomuchtodo.

Anywho, the amount of data is actually ~19GB which is well within what I can upload with my home connection. Unfortunately the ia tool is failing for me: https://github.com/jjjake/internetarchive/issues/176

Also, it's not really about the $3, more that a tonne of "$3" projects really add up over a year or so.

Re:The US Library of Congress has put 25M items free online by toomuchtodo on Monday May 29, 2017 @12:28PM (#14439889)
Email sent.
Re:The US Library of Congress has put 25M items free online by voltagex_ on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @09:28PM (#14449878)
I have been advised that the data already exists on archive.org.
Re:The US Library of Congress has put 25M items free online by toomuchtodo on Thursday June 01, 2017 @08:44PM (#14466492)
Email me back. Would still like to buy you a beer for your troubles.