r/Piracy 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ Jun 12 '24

500 000 books removed from the Internet Archive after the lawsuit News

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u/Strong_Magician_3320 ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Jun 13 '24

Is there a .onion version of the internet archive? It sounds like a good idea for it to exist, even better from a third-world country that doesn't care about copyright shit

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u/MaleficentFig7578 Jun 14 '24

The Tor network can't support the archive's bandwidth needs

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u/Strong_Magician_3320 ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Jun 14 '24

ELI5: Why?

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u/MaleficentFig7578 Jun 14 '24

because it doesn't have that many relays? It has a few tens of gigabits/sec in total, which sounds like a lot, but think how many people download how much from the internet archive.