The Internet Archive Has Saved Over 10,000,000,000,000,000 Bytes of the Web 135
An anonymous reader writes "Last night, the Internet Archive threw a party; hundreds of Internet Archive supporters, volunteers, and staff celebrated that the site had passed the 10,000,000,000,000,000 byte mark for archiving the Internet. As the non-profit digital library, known for its Wayback Machine service, points out, the organization has thus now saved 10 petabytes of cultural material."
The announcement coincided with the release of an 80-terabyte dataset for researchers and, for the first time, the complete literature of a people: the Balinese.
Re:Relevance of byte count (Score:5, Insightful)
They have over 1.5 million unique audio files in the Live Music Archive alone. I know because I helped them count. (That's unique files, not counting the duplicates in different formats.) If the RIAA has anything to say about it, they're serious slacking.
Indispensable reference for slashdotters (Score:5, Insightful)
How do you choose a date? Whose company would you enjoy?
Well, one thing you can consider is looks. Woody thought of Janice and how good looking she was. He'd really have to rate to date her. Yes, he'd enjoy that, except... Well, it's too bad Janice always acts so superior. She'd make a fellow feel awkward and bored.
Well, perhaps someone who doesn't feel so superior. There's Betty. And yet, it just doesn't seem as if she'd be much fun.
What about Anne? She knows how to have a good time, and how to make the fellow with her relax, too. Yes, that's what a boy likes.
Yes, the Internet now provides everything you ever needed to know but were afraid to ask.
looks like you forgot to add '-h' switch (Score:4, Insightful)
10,000,000,000,000,000 Bytes = 8.88 Petabytes
Re:Relevance of byte count (Score:2, Insightful)
Because eventually they WILL be accessable when copyright runs out. But if nobody other than the 'rightsholders' have copies, that wouldn't matter, they could trivially remaster them, then have copyright over the remasters for another century after destroying the originals so they could never get out.