[LINK] Internet Archival

[Craig Sanders]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:35:37PM +0200, Kim Holburn wrote:
> Have you searched the wayback machine?
> 
> I worry that we've already lost much of the written online material  
> produced in the last few decades.  I think we've already lost much of  
> early TV.  Recently the BBC had lost a number of early episodes of Dr  
> Who and managed to get copies from people who had taped them (possibly  
> illegally).  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_missing_episodes
>
> Even if we had a perfect archive of everything online it would  
> probably not be legally usable because of copyright restrictions.

i remember about a year ago someone telling me that they'd seen on a
bit torrent site[1] a complete collection of Doctor Who episodes, from the
1960s to the current day. about 200GB, all up. with current broadband
speeds and quotas, i find it hard to imagine someone even making such
a torrent, let alone someone, even the most obsessive fan, actually
downloading it.

it probably wasn't 100% complete.  probably missing some episodes.



[1] no, i don't know what site. it was about a year ago, and it was just
something they mentioned in passing, and i wasn't terribly interested.
i just thought it was bizarre and amazing that there was a torrent of
200GB (!!) worth of dated british SF.

craig

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