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Posted: 2/22/2022 5:05 PM
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feos
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NES TAS of 2011
Bobo the King wrote:
So my simple feelings toward the (since resolved) question at hand are that archive.org is a great alternative to YouTube in the absence of torrents, but should archive.org go belly-up for whatever reason, expect me to come back here and pound on the table, demanding that we reintegrate torrents.
Did you miss the part where nobody is interested in seeding those torrents anymore? We can't demand publishers to keep all their encodes forever just to seed them, because they would be probably never pulled that way from them until Archive dies, exactly because YT is much easier.
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Posted: 2/23/2022 1:08 PM
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ThunderAxe31
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Arcade TAS of 2023 Homebrew TAS of 2023 PSX TASer of 2022 Gameboy TASer of 2017
Due to a 400 error, I lost my post, so pardon me if I'll be short. Yes, any internet site can disappear any time. See what happened in Strasbourg: a fire physically destroyed a bunch of servers, effectively erasing from existence millions of web sites: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-ovh-fire-idUSKBN2B20NU Bobo, if your concern is about keeping an alternate download solution for accessing the video encodes, then Torrent is just not an option. We should rely on online services of some kind, most likely a paid cloud service. A free alternative would be to use those multiple site uploaders that store a file on 50+ different sites at the same time. Then we would need to make a crawler that keeps track of deleted links, in which case re-uploads the files... It would be quite some work, but it would make any file download constantly available for free. If instead your worry is about having a way of keeping backups, yeah Torrent may help, but only if there is at least one person keeping local backup of all video encodes, which would be about 600 GB, not counting mkv files and YouTube encodes. Anyone can do that if you have some bucks to spare for buying an extra memory storage.
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