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trompetenaccoun ◴[] No.41895988[source]
We need archives built on decentralized storage. Don't get me wrong, I really like and support the work Internet Archive is doing, but preserving history is too important to entrust it solely to singular entities, which means singular points of failure.
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jdiff ◴[] No.41896411[source]
This seems to get brought at least once in the comments for every one of these articles that pops up.

The IA has tried distributing their stores, but nowhere near enough people actually put their storage where their mouths are.

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WarOnPrivacy ◴[] No.41897206[source]
> nowhere near enough people actually put their storage where their mouths are.

Typically because most people who have the upload, don't know that they can. And if they come to the notion on their own, they won't know how.

If they put the notion to a search engine, the keywords they come up with probably don't return the needed ELI5 page.

As in: How do I [?] for the Internet Archive?, most folks won't know what [?] needs to be.

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TZubiri ◴[] No.41897342[source]
This is literally torrents. Just give up
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briandear ◴[] No.41897746[source]
The problem with torrents is they have a bad reputation since people use it to steal and redistribute other people’s content without their consent.
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AlienRobot ◴[] No.41898015[source]
Give it a good reputation then.

What are some legal torrent trackers?

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unleaded ◴[] No.41898194{5}[source]
archive.org to name one
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boomboomsubban ◴[] No.41898369{6}[source]
That's debatable. Most of their torrents are for things under copyright, though any other decentralized archive would have the same problem.
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tourmalinetaco ◴[] No.41899007{7}[source]
That’s a copyright problem. 99% of things made in the last 100 years fall under copyright.
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1. trod123 ◴[] No.41899874{8}[source]
and a good number of things that were going to pass into copyright were further extended to 2053.