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posted by LaminatorX on Sunday August 10 2014, @12:48PM   Printer-friendly
from the tears-in-rain dept.

Twitch.tv recently announced that they would be deleting petabytes of data in not too many days. Well, the Archive Team has decided to save many of them. The problem, the final site of the videos is the Internet Archive and they need plenty of room to store them on and that costs money. So donate at http://archive.org/donate or fire up your Warrior to help. Also if you are an owner of a big channel, let the Archive Team know if you already have videos to avoid a duplication of effort.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Sunday August 10 2014, @01:45PM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Sunday August 10 2014, @01:45PM (#79650)

    Are they filtering out material copyrighted by someone other than the poster? If so, it'll probably all fit on one, maybe two, DVDs. Only slightly kidding. I do remember reading an article along the line of they were at one point the dominant streaming platform for the "Stargate" TV series, with estimates they were shipping more bits of "Stargate" than all the other (legit) streaming services combined. Donno how true that was, but I remember reading it.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 10 2014, @02:35PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 10 2014, @02:35PM (#79661)

    IA doesn't give a flying fsck about copyright

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 10 2014, @07:11PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 10 2014, @07:11PM (#79727)
    10 billion hours of dipshit geeks talking smack while playing video games is not worth saving.
  • (Score: 1) by rliegh on Sunday August 10 2014, @11:20PM

    by rliegh (205) on Sunday August 10 2014, @11:20PM (#79826)

    archive.org's boneheaded and destructive blind aherence to robots.txt (deleting the ENTIRE history of a site affected by robots.txt) demonstrates the problem with this.

    One gently-worded IP request and we'll be directly back where we started.

    So we should care why, exactly?

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    • (Score: 2) by Popeidol on Monday August 11 2014, @06:14AM

      by Popeidol (35) on Monday August 11 2014, @06:14AM (#79933) Journal

      From the archive.org FAQ [archive.org]: If a web site owner decides he / she prefers not to have a web crawler visiting his / her files and sets up robots.txt on the site, the Alexa crawlers will stop visiting those files and will make unavailable all files previously gathered from that site.

      They mention nothing about deleting previously gathered data, merely making it unavailable. I'm guessing if the robots.txt file becomes more permissive again in the future all historic data will magically reappear.

      • (Score: 1) by rliegh on Monday August 11 2014, @10:35AM

        by rliegh (205) on Monday August 11 2014, @10:35AM (#79994)

        They mention nothing about deleting previously gathered data, merely making it unavailable.

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinction_without_a_difference

        I'm guessing if the robots.txt file becomes more permissive again in the future all historic data will magically reappear.

        I'm guessing that sightings of anal-originating air-bound monkeys will be more likely than that...

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