The Internet Archive is, and I really want to emphasize this, Fucking Huge. If you want to help archive it, every upload has an associated torrent you can download and help seed. Torrenting itself isn’t illegal, only torrenting illegal stuff like copyrighted movies. You can buy a relatively cheap refurbished HDD of whatever size you want, set up qBittorrent, and torrent the uploads that you want to make sure are available even if the Internet Archive has to take them down or has a critical data loss failure.
Thank you so much for the advice! I want to preserve important documents like the bill of rights and the constitution, as well as sexual education material, especially stuff pertaining to women and reproductive health. Also banned books. Things the facists are trying to purge and things that are important to me.
I know what you’re talking about is important and a necessary comment but something about your comment hit me hard. It’s just so absolutely insane that it has to be said/done.
If anyone is looking for something specific to preserve, consider Our Bodies, Ourselves. It’s a seminal feminist work that seeks to educate women on their bodies. It’s extremely comprehensive, thicker than most textbooks.
How would you recommend someone go about archiving important parts of the IA? Just external drives?
The Internet Archive is, and I really want to emphasize this, Fucking Huge. If you want to help archive it, every upload has an associated torrent you can download and help seed. Torrenting itself isn’t illegal, only torrenting illegal stuff like copyrighted movies. You can buy a relatively cheap refurbished HDD of whatever size you want, set up qBittorrent, and torrent the uploads that you want to make sure are available even if the Internet Archive has to take them down or has a critical data loss failure.
Thank you so much for the advice! I want to preserve important documents like the bill of rights and the constitution, as well as sexual education material, especially stuff pertaining to women and reproductive health. Also banned books. Things the facists are trying to purge and things that are important to me.
In the case of books, Anna’s Archive is looking for help seeding their enormous collection of books and research papers. Consider reading that page and helping them as well!
I know what you’re talking about is important and a necessary comment but something about your comment hit me hard. It’s just so absolutely insane that it has to be said/done.
Ikr? It’s wild that all of this is happening.
If anyone is looking for something specific to preserve, consider Our Bodies, Ourselves. It’s a seminal feminist work that seeks to educate women on their bodies. It’s extremely comprehensive, thicker than most textbooks.
i’m not smart enough for this but maybe look to communities like r/DataHoarder to get started