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🚨 It's time to fire up those seedboxes! Preserve human knowledge FOREVER by seeding Anna’s Archive torrents 🚨 (annas-archive.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by c0mmando@links.hackliberty.org to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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These are all the torrents currently managed and released by Anna’s Archive. For more information, see “Our projects” on the Datasets page. For Library Genesis and Sci-Hub torrents, the Libgen.li torrents page maintains an overview.

These torrents are not meant for downloading individual books. They are meant for long-term preservation.

Torrents with “aac” in the filename use the Anna’s Archive Containers format. Torrents that are crossed out have been superseded by newer torrents, for example because newer metadata has become available. Some torrents that have messages in their filename are “adopted torrents”, which is a perk of our top tier “Amazing Archivist” membership.

You can help out enormously by seeding torrents that are low on seeders. If everyone who reads this chips in, we can preserve these collections forever. This is the current breakdown:

Status	Torrents	Size	Seeders
🔴	54	154.0TB	<4
🟡	183	92.5TB	4–10
🟢	111	17.2TB	>10

IMPORTANT: If you seed large amounts of our collection (50TB or more), please contact us at AnnaArchivist@proton.me so we can let you know when we deprecate any large torrents.

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[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 50 points 1 year ago

Bruh, this is a terrible way to share this. Why not torrents of the raw material in predefined categories that won't change? Like "1984 - Sci-Fi - English - A-N", "1984 - Sci-Fi - English - O-Z", "1990 - Biology", "2012 - Physics". Then people would actually even download this to use it themselves, instead of some archive that has to be extracted and will take a multitude of the space again.

The hell am I going to do with a 300GB archive file that I cannot even look into? I might as well be storing an encrypted blob 300GB large or just reducing the size of my partition by 300GB.

It's great that people want to preserve human knowledge, but there surely are better ways to do this.