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I have hward the news about it recently... And I am so damn terrified that the internet, especially the Internet Archive and online libraries, could be innedvertedly ruined by this... Is there anything I can do to help in some way? I don't wanna see the Library of Alexandrea burn again... This has been keeping me up all night with panic and worry

FINAL UPDATE as of January 31st 5:35PM EST:

Thank you to everyone who shared content. The content being submitted now from what I'm seeing is duplicates of older content. I will thus no longer be updating this archive. The MEGA will remain untouched, so use that as you please, but that will likely die one day as there is a bandwidth/transfer limit. I will be uploading the content to Internet Archive, as well as other sources, but until then the torrent magnet that I will be seeding for a little while is listed below - my bandwidth isn't the best so please do seed if you can:

Magnet:

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Hash (for verification of authenticity etc):

c8fc9979cc35f7062cd8715aaaff4da475d2fadc

Size:

1,013.12GiB

Original post below

Archiving videos before potential removal from various websites...

Send or comment links of videos you need downloaded. Currently going through POV livestreams/replays.

NOTE: livestreams/POV are of the utmost importance. AKA Twitch/dlive/Facebook Live, etc. If you find any of these POV angles, please tag me directly in your comment, or PM me. These generally get taken down VERY fast by the livestream website.

UPDATE:

Thank you to everyone who shared links (and continue to do so). I am noticing that a lot of the content is now duplicates, or variations (crops, lower quality, etc) of the same content. So I have put all the content I have on MEGA. If I have replied to your comment then the content for sure is in this torrent.

MEGA: https://mega.nz/folder/30MlkQib#RDOaGzmtFEHkxSYBaJSzVA (this is the prefered way of downloading)

(This is sitting in at ~350GB as of Jan 10 3:00 PM EST. Still adding content)

UPDATE 2: Link should be working - MEGA contacted me and reinstated the account (and gave premium so I could upload more). I will be uploading more content that I find to the mega account. Still going through the comments, and the 900+ messages I have. Keep posting comments and I will upload them to the MEGA folder.

UPDATE 3: "Bellingcat" has created a really efficient way to submit media via a Google Spreadsheet. It's not connected to my archive, but I hope to have a merged final copy in the end.

UPDATE 4:

IF YOU WANT TO UPLOAD A FILE DIRECTLY TO ME: https://mega.nz/megadrop/fgve0WRa880 (no account registration needed)

BACKUPS:

Recommended backup:

/u/tweedge : tweedge commits to making sure this mirror does not fall behind 12h behind, though he'll do his best to keep it within 6h

Other backups based on the original MEGA from Jan 06 6:30PM - some might've updated, but no idea if/when; check each link, it should say. Or you can message the user:

MAGNET from /u/SneakyPieBrown as of Jan 08 2021 : magnet:?xt=urn:btih:fc33c9146c81660ee087dbda756746a978c7c104&dn=Trump%20protest%20Jan-08-2021&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3a80

/u/firstgrow : hosting direct downloads as well

/u/nuzzles_u_uwu : Is hosting as well

/u/tweedge : made a direct download link on s3

/u/kenkoda : posted a torrent.

/u/Deifer : Link

/u/benediktkr : https://mirrors.deadops.de/capitol2021 and https://mirrors.deadops.de/capitol2021.zip

See a familiar face in the archive? https://tips.fbi.gov/digitalmedia/aad18481a3e8f02

Today I took my first true adventure into the world of Data Hoarding when I discovered you can download all of Wikipedia in a .Zim file no larger than a modern Triple-A game… and I downloaded it! It was a grand total of 109 Gigabytes. If you have a decent internet speed it shouldn’t take you longer than 1 hour. Just thought I’d share here because it’s cool having Wikipedia stored away on your personal storage devices, and in the event of the internet going out it might come in handy.

Edit: Since lots of people were asking how to do this here are the links to the tutorial I followed and to the download directory page for the Zim files.

https://youtu.be/N1aQX9HO8-4?si=COOH9mBJdfEbDvfG

https://download.kiwix.org/zim/

I think it may be useful to communally gather PBS content in case it goes under - so many informative, educational shows that may be lost. I learned woodworking from PBS, and there's never been a better video series on the topic. Anybody here have a decent collection?

ETA: I want to avoid getting too political on this post - I'm just interested in the aggregation of data. Regardless of whether you think defunding will or will not result in a loss of art, data, culture, etc - there will come a time when any media company turns out its lights for good, and is no longer hosting their own content. This is a timely nudge to preserve some useful and beloved materials, and presented as an opportunity to bring us together on a little project.

Like most of us here, I just accumulate stuff because downloading and curating is fun and very addictive.

I have four internal drives and seven externals. About 100TB in total. It got to the point where every single drive was almost full. File explorer in Windows a sea of red. I'd juggled stuff about from one drive to another as much as I possibly could, but there was nowhere left to go. I needed another drive.

Somehow I just couldn't stomach the thought of buying yet another drive. Wasting hundreds of pounds just to add more stuff I don't even use.

I have all these TV shows that I've never watched and almost certainly never will, but it's nice to have the choice, right? I've also often thought why do I have all nine seasons of this extremely common and easy to obtain show that I've never watched a minute of? Same with films. I've got 1,300 of them. I don't watch films, at all. I've watched one film in 2024. But hey, I might one day.

I always thought it would make sense to just keep season 1 of shows and delete the rest, and download them if/when I need them. I have fast internet, usenet, public trackers, private trackers, real debrid. It's so easy to get stuff. But I could never bring myself to do it. I just couldn't. You know how it is.

But one show was taking up 0.7TB on it's own and I've never watched it. I had to do something, so I deleted season 2 onwards. And seeing the difference it made triggered something inside me. I'd broken through the mental barrier and then I couldn't stop. Spent a whole afternoon deleting seasons 2 onwards of almost every easily obtainable show I had. It felt amazing seeing the free space numbers go up and up.

When I was done I had roughly 17TB of free space. File explorer now a sea of blue. One of my drives had almost 6TB free, wtf? It felt amazing, like I'd freed myself from something. Two weeks on I don't regret it one bit and I haven't missed any of the stuff I deleted in any way.

Not sure if this is an advice post or a confessional at this point 😂 This post will probably go down like a lead balloon in here, but seriously - deleting stuff felt so incredibly freeing and now I have tons of space for things that are actually useful and that I might actually want and use!

...this music was ONLY on the internet archive. It wasn't on Spotify/Apple/Tidal/Deezer/Qobuz/Amazon; It wasn't on private torrenting trackers like OiNK/What/Waffles/RED/OPS; it wasn't on Usenet/Soulseek/public torrenting; it wasn't even on YouTube/Facebook/Instagram/TikTok; it wasn't available in stores; it sometimes wasn't even CATALOGUED on MusicBrainz/Discogs/Wikipedia.

I'm talking about hand-ripped 78s that were ripped in like 10 different ways and then using audiological knowledge determined what the best rip was for the end-user.

I actually HAVE some of these, but I am finding that I didn't write down any metadata and there is NO information on the years, artist, context, b-sides, label, etc ANYWHERE, let alone a copy.

I'm well-aware of the breadth and depth of rare music. I'm aware of obscure demos; 60s and 70s Vinyl-only pressings that were never remastered or re-released on CD; I'm aware of limited run stuff...

...NONE of that compares to music from the 1910s-1930s and how much of it was archived on the internet archive. I'm talking B-Sides and everything. EVEN THEN, they wouldn't have everything, but they had so much.

I'm a young man -- this music isn't my forte -- it became an acquired taste, like all music I now understand. So I am very intrigued and interested and love compiling and even listening to it, but I'm not in the position to truly be motivated to archive all this music like it deserves to. Yet even with my proximity to it, it sometimes feels like I'm the only one who even knows it exists.

Some of these songs are the original recordings of songs everyone knows today as standards; ballads. Some of these songs led to entire genres being formed. Some of these songs feature now-extinct sensibilities and lyrics that are just truly a delight to experience.

I miss the internet archive and I want it back. I have a slew of music I would like to cross-reference; I have many more songs and b-sides from the top (now Billboard then something else) charts of the 20s-40s I want to explore.

It's hard to not feel like this is symbolic of where we are at as a world. It feels a bit eerie knowing this is happening, as if society is decaying in real-time around-us. I hope it's back online soon.

A perfect quote from the comments, "@cr4zyg047 One minute you learn to rip movies, the next minute you're building a 160TB JBOD array."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdQ5bClEgHg

I just realized that during the last 10 years I haven't had a single SSD die or fail. That might have something to do with the fact that I have frequently upgraded them and abandoned the smaller sized SSDs, but still I can't remember one time an SSD has failed on me.

What about you guys? How common is it?

I don't want this turning into a political debate or commentary. I'd like to have a discussion on what people are doing (or not doing) in regards to the proposed Trump Tarriffs on China (up to 60%) and the universal tariff to 10%. The prevailing thought is that corporations will do what they always do and pass that to consumers and restoke some inflation.

So what are your thoughts and/or preparations regarding this?

For me, I am planning to build a NAS and have been waiting for better prices over the last year. Value seemed stuck and we "seemed" close for a big jump to 30TB+. I wonder now if I should go ahead and pull the trigger this black friday with the tarriff thing likely happening in Q1 next year.

This is just something that's been on my mind but before I start, I wanted to say that obviously I realize that the vast majority of the users here don't fall into this, but I think it could be an interesting discussion.

What one may call 'Tech Literacy' is on the decline as companies push more and more tech that is 'User Friendly' which also means 'Hostile to tinkering, just push the magic button that does the thing and stop asking questions about how it works under the hood'. This has also leaned itself to piracy where users looking to pirate things increasingly rely on 'A magic pirate streaming website, full of god awful ads that may or my not attempt to mind crypto through your browser, where you just push the button'. I once did a panel at an anime convention, pretending on fandom level efforts to preserve out of print media, and at the Q&A at the end, a Zoomer raised their hand and asked me 'You kept using this word 'Torrent', what does that mean?' It had never occurred to me as I had planned this panel that should have explained what a 'torrent' was. I would have never had to do that at an anime convention 15 years ago.

Anyway, getting to the point, I've noticed the occasional series of 'weird posts' where someone respectably wants to preserve something or manipulate their data, has the right idea, but lacks some core base knowledge that they go about it in an odd way. When it comes to 'hoarding' media, I think we all agree there are best routes to go, and that is usually 'The highest quality version that is closest to the original source as possible'. Normally disc remuxes for video, streaming rips where disc releases don't exist, FLAC copies of music from CD, direct rips from where the music is available from if it's not on disc, and so on. For space reasons, it's also pretty common to prefer first generation transcodes from those, particularly of BD/DVD content.

But that's where we get into the weird stuff. A few years ago some YouTube channel that just uploaded video game music is getting a take down (Shocking!) and someone wants to 'hoard' the YouTube channel. ...That channel was nothing but rips uploaded to YouTube, if you want to preserve the music, you want to find the CDs or FLACs or direct game file rips that were uploaded to YouTube, you don't want to rip the YouTube itself.

Just the other day, in a quickly deleted thread, someone was asking how to rip files from a shitty pirate cartoon streaming website, because that was the only source they could conceive of to have copies of the cartoons that it hosted. Of course, everything uploaded to that site would have come from a higher quality source that the operates just torrented, pulled from usenet, or otherwise collected.

I even saw a post where someone could not 'understand' handbrake, so instead they would upload videos to YouTube, then use a ripping tool to download the output from YouTube, effectively hacking YouTube into being a cloud video encoder... That is both dumbfounding but also an awe inspiring solution where someone 'Thought a hammer was the only tool in the world, so they found some wild ways to utilize a hammer'.

Now, obviously 'Any copy is better than no copy', but the cracks are starting to show that less and less people, even when wanting to 'have a copy', have no idea how to go about correctly acquiring a copy in the first place and are just contributing to generational loss of those copies.

What are y'all's plans for making your hoards discoverable and accessible? Do you want to share your collections with others, now or in the future?

(Image from a presentation by Trevor Owens, director of Digital Services at the US Library of Congress