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Re:Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are ... by stavros on Monday July 04, 2022 @05:35AM (#31975212)
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.

Re:Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are ... by npteljes on Monday July 04, 2022 @10:36AM (#31977494)
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...

Re:Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are ... by stavros on Monday July 04, 2022 @11:30AM (#31978116)
That's interesting, I'll read up on it, thanks!