Good News for BitTorrent: Internet Archive Adds 1,398,875 Torrents

By Rob Scott
August 10, 2012

As part of its mission to provide “universal access to all knowledge,” San Francisco-based non-profit the Internet Archive has added more than a million torrent files to the BitTorrent ecosystem.
“The torrents link to almost a petabyte of data and all files are being seeded by the Archive’s servers,” reports TorrentFreak.
Starting this week, “all new files uploaded to the Archive will also be available via BitTorrent,” explains the post. “In addition, a massive collection of older files including concerts from John Mayer, Jack Johnson and Maroon 5 and the Prelinger collection are also being published via torrents.”
Founder of the Internet Archive, Brewster Kahle, hopes the next step will be turning the popular file-sharing protocol into a distributed preservation system for the Internet.
“I hope this is greeted by the BitTorrent community, as we are loving what they have built and are very glad we can populate the BitTorrent universe with library and archive materials,” Kahle told TorrentFreak. “There is a great opportunity for symbiosis between the Libraries and Archives world and the BitTorrent communities.”
“In the wake of recent news featuring raids, crackdowns, DDoSes and lawsuits, this announcement from the Internet Archive brings some very welcome positive news about BitTorrent,” notes the post.

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