Yet again the Internet Archiving is suffering big this time, a coalition of major record labels filed a lawsuit against the Internet Archive demanding $700 million for the extensive catalog of 78 rpm records. 78s are sometimes more than a century old at this point and i bet a lot of them are out of copyright, but i suppose for the few that still are majors are hitting it big towards the IA
This lawsuit is pretty much another existential threat to the Internet Archive and everything it preserves, including the Wayback Machine, and we’re fucked if we ever lose access to the Wayback Machine.
the original article asked to sign a petition, but i think a more logical way to support is to donate them directly so that they have more money to better defend themselves in court in this and other cases they’ll undoubtedly face in the future
48PB in excess of 120 million items.
Most of our distributed storage sharing systems break down long before that.
Even if DHT could handle it, we’d need like five full copies of it out there for it to be safe, and not one or two people with multi petabyte rigs, when you get really distributed.
2100 22tb drives
~700k dollars.
If you factor in volume discounts you can probably afford enough discs to make it a bunch of nice raids.
Of course, then you’ll need a bunch of really expensive chassis to be able to mount them and have them working.
Seems like somebody could stand a spare a couple million to make that happen.