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"Anna's Archive is a non-profit project with two goals:
Preservation: Backing up all knowledge and culture of humanity.
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Thanks everyone who contributed this great project.
The internet needs a better way to share stuff than a fixed list of files. It should be easy to simply browse through a shared folder and decide to participate in storing and hosting that file.
Having to split huge archives like this into multiple torrents is such a terrible workaround. It requires those with huge storage to host the torrents. People who just require a subset can't properly participate.
Such a pity IPFS is so crap. It should be been the solution to this, but alas...
What's crap about IPFS? I've never used it, but have always been intrigued.
It's a resource hog and quite unstable. A major gripe I have with it is that it makes accessing what you downloaded very difficult because the documentation is terrible. It should be possible to mount all your downloaded stuff into a folder, but I have yet to figure out how. And despite all its resource usage, it is very slow.
The idea is amazing (peer-to-peer, content-addressed storage), but the implementation is extremely lacking.
It's got lots of great ideas (combining what's essentially a giant git repo with bit torrent), but in practice it's pretty slow to do anything
The torrent protocol is quite happy for you to only download and seed some files within a torrent, it's just that the most popular client for it isn't very good at managing very large archives.
I'm guessing there's probably an alternative client that is better at this, can anyone tell me what it is? If there isn't one I'll make one, but I don't want to burn a weekend duplicating something that already exists...
K now someone make a script that compares your Spotify library to the torrent and downloads all songs please...
Sure but, again, the files are in a relatively low quality.
This oh this, please
That's actually what i am waiting for
Meh, whenever I go through spotify looking for the albums I like, about 40% of them aren't even on there. You're better off not bothering with their shite.
Hope Anna's has a good Onion site setup... Cause they are gonna probably have to rely on that soon enough.
I'm always astonished of how underused it's the dark net for these kind of projects. Most torrent sites doesn't have a dark net mirror despite how easily they get blocked in the clearnet.
Because they want people to actually use them.
More people should use the anonymous internet using tools like I2P and Tor. Hopefully that'll be a silver lining with all the governments around the world cracking down on freedom of speech and increasing censorship.
I don't believe they have one, it's long overdue however
not sure if it's very related but apparently spotify is killing their api. hopefully annas releases proper dumps that can replace it..
https://old.reddit.com/r/spotifyapi/comments/1qxv9wm/spotify_api_changes_were_doomed/ (screenshot attached)
Of course it can't replace it, it's a point-in-time archive.
yeah sure, but it should cover up the vast majority of stuff except new releases
I believe it is very related, either as the cause or the effect.
Just an excuse to bring it over the finish line what some at management wanted to do but had no justification to begin it.
At least IMO.
It is also possible that Anna's Archive moved through with their project because someone learnt about Spotify plans in advance.
Fair.
While their intentions are good, this will unfortunately probably lead to them losing their last two domain names.
I2P can do torrents. Magnets are easy to host on Tor
The pirate bay is still able to find domains so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Maybe this will prompt some people to learn to use Tor
Is TOR not completely owned by the feds? I remember even back in the silk road days people were saying the FBI owns every endpoint. Is TOR still practical? I truly don't know I'm asking for input.
If enough people set endpoints, then the feds will own a fewer proportion of the total. AKA: we have to be the change we want to see in the world.
Yeah but even if you could get it down to like 50% why would anyone want to take that risk? Idk I might be misunderstanding something about how TOR works but it seems no more anonymous than the clearweb from what I've heard.
I'm not sure you are fully aware of the Tor threat model. The exit node is not supposed to be specifically trusted.
What are they gonna do? Punish them with trillions more in debt?