Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

I think they do provide torrents for the stuff they have available to download already. So we know what to do *wink*!

irc, it's already backed up to multiple other countries. I assume this isn't some crazy idea, and they've considered this themselves.

Donate to help their defense, or donate to help them move their infrastructure. I think they need money more than they need big brain ideas.

Is there a coordinated way to mirror it, like Anna's Archive is doing with their torrents? I'd be happy to pitch in a few terrabytes

thank you so much, you're doing god's work

48PB in excess of 120 million items.

Most of our distributed storage sharing systems break down long before that.

Even if DHT could handle it, we'd need like five full copies of it out there for it to be safe, and not one or two people with multi petabyte rigs, when you get really distributed.

2100 22tb drives

~700k dollars.

If you factor in volume discounts you can probably afford enough discs to make it a bunch of nice raids.

Of course, then you'll need a bunch of really expensive chassis to be able to mount them and have them working.

Seems like somebody could stand a spare a couple million to make that happen.

The reason this is as public as it is is because an archive like this is more useful the more is archived. If you manage it in an entirely hidden way, you basically won't get it accessible from the clearnet and are relegated to keep it on Tor or similar. And once you do that, a lot less people will use it and thus it'll be a lot less useful.

Also, they are not only fighting for an archive to exist, they're fighting for it being a societally acceptable thing to exist.

In the age of distributed databases and the dark web and the block chain and federation surely we can figure out a way to archive media that doesn’t put people or organisations at risk of litigation

That limits and gatekeeps access to an enormous degree. The IA wants to be useful to everyone, not just the tiny fraction of the world population savvy enough to use the internet for more than opening a browser and a chat client.

don’t institutionalise the perpetration of rights violations?

Counterpoint: The perpetration of this kind of rights violation precisely needs to be normalized to the point of meaninglessness. Intellectual property can either go away top-down (which considering the way things went over the past century is never going to happen) or it can go away bottom up - it has to be flaunted and disregarded by everybody via continued large-scale disobedience.

Or, of course, it could just never go away.

why not both? small donations to the IA pile up. also the IA has several petabytes of data so it would be difficult to mirror that completely but sharing parts you're interested in (even on the small scale) can be immensely useful.