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Worth knowing: Internet Archive adds 1,000,000 legal files to the world’s store of BitTorrents

Internet Archive adds 1,000,000 legal files to the world's store of BitTorrents - Boing Boing

The Internet Archive has partnered with BitTorrent to publish over 1,000,000 of its books, music and movies as legal torrents.

From the Internet Archive’s blog:

BitTorrent is the now fastest way to download items from the Archive, because the BitTorrent client downloads simultaneously from two different Archive servers located in two different datacenters, and from other Archive users who have downloaded these Torrents already. The distributed nature of BitTorrent swarms and their ability to retrieve Torrents from local peers may be of particular value to patrons with slower access to the Archive, for example those outside the United States or inside institutions with slow connections.

Internet Archive adds 1,000,000 legal files to the world’s store of BitTorrents – Boing Boing.

Internet Archive (archive.org) to archive all books

The 15-year-old non-profit Internet Archive has started a hugely ambitious project to assemble and scan all of the world’s printed books.

According to Brewster Kahle, the founder of Internet Archive, “We want to collect one copy of every book… You can never tell what is going to paint the portrait of a culture.”

Melville House Books » Internet Archive to archive all books.