Talk:INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK/torrents implementation

We can simply the simplification

Here is a proposal to backup the Internet Archive. First, ask Internet Archive to provide a CSV with the following columns: item id, magnet link, size, creation date, update date, description, collections. The initial CSV can be just a few hundreds or thousands of well known items from well known curators, to avoid copyright problems. Once that CSV is ready, there are multiple scenarios, it depends on every person spare disk, etc:

• People randomly choose by hand some magnets from the CSV according to their preferences: books, films, etc, or size
• A beautiful website is created that shows a random sample of magnets, and you click and it opens your BT client
• A plugin for qBittorrent, etc, is developed to randomly pick magnets from the CSV (or by XML from the previous website), according to user preferences
• Seedboxes around the world with enough space just feed the entire CSV or big chunks of it

This can be done with a small sample of beautiful items, you know, old rare books, public domain movies, etc. Something eye-catching to get the ball rolling, and we can expand from that. Can we do it? Thanks. VoynichCr (talk) 07:16, 8 September 2024 (UTC)