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Re:Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens by baby_souffle on Monday October 21, 2024 @10:06AM (#41904313)
> 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.

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Re:Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens by armada651 on Monday October 21, 2024 @10:35AM (#41904619)
That is fundamentally the problem, no one wants to donate storage to host stuff they're not interested in.
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Re:Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens by mrguyorama on Monday October 21, 2024 @02:06PM (#41906702)
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.
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