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Archiving the Internet Archive?
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Why federated and not just regular p2p?
Internet archive already supports torrents.
Forgive me because I'm not very familiar with the technology, but 99 petabytes (estimated size of the Internet Archive) seems like a little much for even a large network of home computers.
Don't get me wrong, decentralizing would be great, but I just don't understand how it would be done at this level, especially when, in the grand scheme of things, I don't think there's a whole lot of people who would pitch in.
99 petabytes is not that much really, my NAS has a quarter petabyte of storage, some of which I can spare. This is something that just a few thousand volunteers could manage realistically