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Sometimes I stumble across content that I have been looking for for a while or that I know is rare or missing "out there". Might be that I snipe a rare CD from the 90s on eBay. Might be that I get my hands on some ancient software or driver CD or some old firmware images that might be relevant for retro computing. Might be that I have some scans of a repair manual or schematics that is impossible to get.

Point is: I can't exactly put that stuff on archive.org, but it feels like I should put it somewhere so that the next person searching for it has an easier time and also so that some culturally relevant things don't get lost. What is your solution to that problem?

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[–] Outtatime 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The drivers and old software repair manuals should be ok on archive.org

The music is iffy

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I put that music on archive.org too. If there's no market for selling it, I don't think there's much of a legal argument.

[–] Outtatime 4 points 2 weeks ago

Probably yeah

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I'd say just put it on archive.org. Just use a VPN and no email that can be traced to you.

Worst thing really that will happen is that it'll get removed?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That seems wrong to me as you're just making archive.org a bigger target when you know it's not something they can legally host (hence the VPN and anon email).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I mean, if it's old and no one cares, I really don't think it's a big deal. Yeah, there's risk, but they likely get DMCAs already all the freakin time from more recent stuff. There's no risk for them because they're not the perpetrators, their users are.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

And used a Password Manager, so your password don't end up on haveibeenpwned after their site gets hacked by assholes who do not understand code of war

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Just to add on top, soulseek could be a good option as well. Not quite as discoverable as archive.org, but others can still benefit. it’s essentially self hosted

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Your only options is to self-host, otherwise archive.org. But since it is constantly under threats, you're left to self-host.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I keep a domain full of interesting files, it stopped being indexed some time between 2010-2015. I don't think it's just mine, I never see the "index of" pages in search results any more, unless I explicitly search for that phrase.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Rainbow dash, by any chance?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

No, no the brony kind of interesting

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Books can go on z-lib. Everything else, bittorrent?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I've never successfully started a bitttorrent seed. Advice?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Make sure it’s a BitTorrent version 2 seed. You can add stuff to the torrent later and the previous version people are seeding will still work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Do you have Port Forwarding Enabled ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I think I tried it once.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

IPFS? Or some other distributed data storage system? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlanetary_File_System