What if Archive.today published torrents of its datasets?

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3 years ago

On Friday there was a thread about "who's behind Archive.today?" [0], and it linked to a post by the developer saying [1]:

Archive.today is doomed to eventually die.

It's estimated the quantity of data under management is 1 petabyte. Given they've been going for around 8-10 years, we can extrapolate this is only 100-150 terabytes per year.

While not completely trivial, this is only 5 or 6 hard drives at today's maximum capacity of 28TB.

What if the developer published the data to a torrent on a monthly or other periodic basis? While not completely legal, it would enable their legacy to live on indefinitely and ensure future access to a lot of information.

[0] Archive.today: on the trail of mysterious guerrilla archivists of the Internet - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37009598 - Aug 2023 (58 comments)

[1] "archive.today is doomed to die" https://blog.archive.today/post/657822115776610304/not-respecting-peoples-privacy-copyright-laws

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