The Internet Archive is more than a million files in a digital library is also using torrents to download offer. The archives says torrents in addition to seen as a “distributed bewaarsysteem’ for its files.
“We are very happy that we have the bittorrent universe can populate with library – and archival footage,” says Brewster Kahle, founder of The Internet Archive at TorrentFreak. The mission of the internetbibliotheek is to ‘universal access to all knowledge” to offer. All the files that The Internet Archieve is offering, are legal and open to the public.
The torrents include live music, the Prelinger-film collection, the (audio)books and old radio shows, says The Internet Archive on its blog. The links to the torrents are added on the site of the archives. In total, it would go to more than a million files which The Internet Archive in this way. The organization has two private trackers put to use for the torrentverkeer.
On the blog thank you Brewster Kahle the bittorrent community for the evolution of a valuable technique for the rapid, reliable, and resilient distribution of large numbers of files.” “I hope that this will be greeted by the bittorrent community,” said Kahle.
The project is not only intended to be an alternative download method for the material of The Internet Archive. “The next step is to make bittorrent a distributed bewaarsysteem for content like ours,” says Kahle. The Internet Archive has a large collection of material, including audio files, software, raw research data and visualizations of old web pages via ‘The Wayback Machine’.
Torrentsites are long under fire because they are sharing copyrighted material. So it was a few days ago torrentsite Demonoid taken offline and try to Brein in the Netherlands the popular torrentsite The Pirate Bay to tackle.