It looks like the internet archive is needed assistance, I just heard about this today and figured lemmy could help spread this message around

  •  CrabAndBroom   ( @CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml ) English
    4•23 days ago

    Assuming they don’t win, is there any contingency in place to preserve all their data? I don’t know how exactly because I assume there’s an absolute fuckton of it, but it would be such a shame if all of that was lost forever.

    I’d love to see it become like the Pirate Bay, where they squish one and ten more pop up to replace it, but I don’t know if that’s even possible.

    •  bionicjoey   ( @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ) 
      1•22 days ago

      That worked for pirate bay because they were storing a miniscule amount of actual data. Torrents are really small. The actual data is stored in the peer to peer network. The torrents are just tracking where in the p2p stuff is.

      IA isn’t like that. They probably store exabytes of data.