18 Jan
2011
18 Jan
'11
9:59 a.m.
On 1/18/2011 11:57 AM, Richard wrote:
Jay West makes server and disk space available for
appropriate vintage
computing purposes. BitSavers also archives "bits" and not just
documentation.
The only reason why I'd imagine you don't want to use either of these
existing services is because you know the stuff you want to archive
violates someone's copyright and that they actually pursue violators.
Have you checked out Freenet? I need to play with it as well, but the
concepts are pretty interesting. And I think its quite applicable to
your requirement. At least from an academic perspective, as long as the
data is re-inserted regularly, or being downloaded by different people,
it should remain online forever.
http://freenetproject.org/faq.html
The anonymity and free nature makes it interesting.
I think from a practical perspective, simply seeding the data once with
bittorrent on a popular tracker usually works for rare stuff. The more
rare something is (provided there's still SOME interest) in it, the more
people will go out of their way to make sure it's available. You may
only have 1/2 dozen seeders at any given time, but that's usually
enough. Even for 10gb sized downloads.
While trying to avoid a personal attack from mr. grumpypants(which is
usually swift), I find it a damn shame that some people would rather
have this stuff fade into oblivion by not having it available for
distribution (and hence preventing one fairly strong method for
preservation/archiving) than allow many future generations to enjoy and
make further use of it.
Keith