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Internet Archive is in danger
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Assuming they don't win, is there any contingency in place to preserve all their data? I don't know how exactly because I assume there's an absolute fuckton of it, but it would be such a shame if all of that was lost forever.
I'd love to see it become like the Pirate Bay, where they squish one and ten more pop up to replace it, but I don't know if that's even possible.
That worked for pirate bay because they were storing a miniscule amount of actual data. Torrents are really small. The actual data is stored in the peer to peer network. The torrents are just tracking where in the p2p stuff is.
IA isn't like that. They probably store exabytes of data.
@textfiles@mastodon.archive.org Thoughts?
@Cracks_InTheWalls @CrabAndBroom I think there are tons and tons of yummy little square boxes that will take all of the letters you type into a keyboard and then put them somewhere for everybody to see.
Lol, fair. I'm still not well versed in inter-service ActivityPub stuff. I don't know if you'll see this or see any of the parent comments here on Lemmy.
Contingency plans if IA loses the appeal about the library stuff, or in general has something happen that puts IA's collections at risk of being lost. Any thoughts on the matter? Also cool if it's not something you want to talk about, I know you don't speak for the whole org.
How do we archive the archive?
@Cracks_InTheWalls I'm quite aware of the thread you are connecting me to. My answer stays the same.
Ah, understood. Thanks!