Uh, cool, I guess? I want to applaud that, but, first off, unless you are OpenAI or Facebook, it is not exactly plausibly easy to participate in the festivities. Even if I had spare 300 TB laying around, how the fuck do I download that?

But, more importantly, I cannot even say "good for you", because I don't actually think it is good for Anna's Archive. I wouldn't touch that thing, if I was them. Do we even have any solid alternatives for books, if Anna's Archive gets shot down, by the way? Don't recommend Amazon, please.

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pjerem a day ago | parent | next [-]

BitTorrent protocol doesn’t force you to download all of the files of a torrent :)

Now imagine a dedicated music client that will download and stream (and share, because we are polite) only the needed files :)

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chrneu a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

think popcorn time for mp3s/flac instead of mp4.

a client can selectively list and then stream individual files from a huge torrent. if you've ever watched illegal movies/shows on those random domain websites, you're likely streaming it from a torrent on the backend somewhere.

it wouldn't surprise me if we start to see some docker images pop up in a few days to do exactly this as a sort of "quasi-self-hosted jellyfin". Where a person host a thin client on a machine that then fetches the data from the torrent, then allows the user to "select" their library. A user can just select "Top hits from the 80s" and it'll grab those files from the torrent, then stream or back them up.

I don't really see why it wouldn't, from an end user perspective, be any different than a self hosted jellyfin or plexamp.

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killingtime74 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You can download torrents selectively. I think if they adopted that cautious attitude they wouldn't exist in the first place

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Gander5739 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Anna's archive mirrors z-lib and libgen, so those are the main alternatives. But it's unlikely anna's archive would go down so easily, they take a lot of precautions.

	▲	krick a day ago \| parent [-]
		Oh, I was somehow under impression that libgen is no more. Glad to see it's not. I guess it was just a different domain.

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Spivak a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I am in no way saying that this is cheap but 300 TB will set you back a little less than $6k with tax. Very attainable for people other than OpenAI and Facebook. And it's not crazy at all to snag a server with enough bays to house all those.

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dmicah a day ago | parent | next [-]

For reference, considering you can purchase a 12-month Spotify Premium subscription via a $99 gift card at the moment, that same $6k could be used for 60 years of Spotify Premium.

	▲	DrammBA a day ago \| parent [-]
		For reference, cosidering the backup has 86 million music files, at an average of 3 minutes per file it would take you around 490 years to listen to all the tracks.

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emsixteen 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The cost of rest of the hardware, running it constantly, and 'admin' overheads aren't to be scoffed at to be fair.

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sneak a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I have a Supermicro 24 bay 2U in my house with an array around half that size in it. It’s not prohibitive.