There is a fundamental resistance to tape technology that exists to this day as a result of all those troubles.

Not in the way I think you're talking about. The archive has always tried to maintain a situation where the racks could be pushed out of the door or picked up after being somewhere and the individual drives will contain complete versions of the items. We have definitely reached out to people who seem to be doing redundant work and ask them to stop or for permission to remove the redundant item. But that's a pretty curatorial process.

Yes[1].

[1]: The Article, Paragraph 2

Pick the items you want to mirror and seed them via their torrent file.

https://github.com/jjjake/internetarchive

https://archive.org/services/docs/api/internetarchive/cli.ht...

ia search 'format:"Archive BitTorrent"' --itemlist > itemlist.txt

Note that there will be more than 50M items returned by this query, so that command will take a very long time to complete (results are returned in 10k chunks). You'll probably also want to add something like `--timeout 300` as well so you don't get half way through only for the command to fail with a timeout.

u/stavros wrote a design doc for a system (Codename "Elephant") that would scale this up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45559219

My mental model on this is Anna's Archive's torrent page meets ArchiveTeam's Warrior. Have disk? VM starts up, picks least seeded items from public endpoint, replicates, starts serving, and coverage is constantly reported back by the archive swarm.

(no affiliation, I am just a rando; if you are a library, museum, or similar institution, ask IA to drop some racks at your colo for replication, and as always, don't forget to donate to IA when able to)

I would like to be able to pull content out of the Wayback Machine with a proper API [1]. I'd even be willing to pay a combination of per-request and per-gigabyte fees to do it. But then I think about the Archive's special status as a non-profit library, and I'm not sure that offering paid API access (even just to cover costs) is compatible with the organization as it exists.

[1] It looks like this might exist at some level, e.g. https://github.com/hartator/wayback-machine-downloader, but I've been trying to use this for a couple of weeks and every day I try I get a 5xx error or "connection refused".