Re:Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens
by highwaylights on Monday October 21, 2024 @05:04AM
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You're correct, but even then you've still the problem of storage - the torrents are only useful (and there's a lot of them) if a sustainable number of seeds remain available.
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Re:Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens
by Wheatman on Monday October 21, 2024 @08:33AM
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How abiut torrenting a collection of websites in one collection?
You can distribute less popular websites with more used ones to avoid losing it? And Torrents are good with transfering large files in my experience.
Re:Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens
by baby_souffle on Monday October 21, 2024 @10:06AM
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> You can distribute less popular websites with more used ones to avoid losing it?
So long as this distributed protocol has the concept of individual files, there _will_ be clients out there that allow the user to select `popular-site.archive.tar.gz` and not `less-popular.tar.gz` for download.
And what one person doesn't download... they can't seed back. Distributed stuff is really good for low cost, high scale distribution of in-demand content. It's _terrible_ for long term reliability/availability, though.
Re:Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens
by armada651 on Monday October 21, 2024 @10:35AM
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That is fundamentally the problem, no one wants to donate storage to host stuff they're not interested in.
Re:Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens
by mrguyorama on Monday October 21, 2024 @02:06PM
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More concretely, nobody wants to donate anything. They just want it to exist. Charity has never been a functional solution to normal coordination problems. We have centuries of evidence of this.