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Re:Academic Torrents – Making 27TB of research data available by pradn on Monday August 13, 2018 @01:09PM (#17751647)
It would be great to get a personalized RSS feed of torrents. This way, knowledge of at-risk torrents can be distributed efficiently. It even allows prioritization.

I wonder if you can set up a distributed-hash-table sort of thing that lets you reliably query for less-popular torrents. Like a magnet-link system that supports top-k queries.

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Re:Academic Torrents – Making 27TB of research data available by ieee8023 on Monday August 13, 2018 @08:49PM (#17754802)
Sometimes if a torrent doesn't have seeds it is a signal that people do not value that data. Not all data should be stored forever. The community should vote with their servers what we should store forever and at what level of redundancy.
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