Internet Archive Starts Seeding 1,398,875 Torrents

This is among the most brilliant digital preservation strategies I've encountered. You want to make sure your material lasts as long as possible? Get it out on bittorrent. End of story.<p>We wonder what books scholars will write about 500 years from now. It won't be what's popular, it'll be whats pirated.

Glad to see more legitimate uses of bitorrent which currently are basically getting new linux distros and the odd free indie movie.

The Internet Archive is the most important project on the internet today, preserving culture. I've already gained so much from it myself. They work hard to make sure that the artifacts of our culture are not lost. They are totally winning, and these torrents are an awesome step in that process.

are people aware that the internet archive includes netlabels with a huge amount of free music? <a href="http://archive.org/details/netlabels" rel="nofollow">http://archive.org/details/netlabels</a> (there is some decent chilean electronica at <a href="http://archive.org/details/pueblo_nuevo" rel="nofollow">http://archive.org/details/pueblo_nuevo</a> for example; clinical have experimental jazz <a href="http://archive.org/details/clinicalarchives" rel="nofollow">http://archive.org/details/clinicalarchives</a> (some of it is a bit freaky for me, but their collections are ok))<p>trying to work out if it's available via torrent now...

Right now the most popular archive.org torrent is a collection of My Little Pony porn from /r/clopclop.

archive.org is one of the most brilliant things I've ever seen on the internet. I'm amazed since I first stumbled over it about 12 years ago or so. Free knowledge to everyone, that's the way to go to make the world a better place.

Awesome! Though I wish archive.org was redesigned to make it easier to browse files. Too much text, too little video/image previews.

There should be a formal way of coupling a torrent file with a bitcoin address, some way of donating money to the creator but trusting that the address is the correct one.. maybe when content is first released it's registered somewhere alongside a bitcoin address and this shows up on the creator's website too.

Does anybody have a magnet URI? The site is overloaded right now.

Are there any good ways to contribute bandwidth and storage to this without manually choosing and downloading a bunch of files? I would love to dedicate a few 100gb of storage to mirroring some of these files automatically (I have plenty of bandwidth to go with that too).