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Stuff like this makes me optimistic for the future of the internet. As storage gets cheaper, its going to be easier to self-host all your content.
 
Big Lenny said:
Stuff like this makes me optimistic for the future of the internet. As storage gets cheaper, its going to be easier to self-host all your content.
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The storage situation could be better. Storage costs are going to rise in 2026. We could really use better technologies than HDDs, QLC SSDs, or magnetic tape for bulk storage. Like the >100 TB optical discs that are in the labs.

Here's an optimistic outlook about Anna's Archive's primary mission of storing all books:
The critical window of shadow libraries (archive) (ghost) (mega) (wayback)
 
Big Lenny said:
As storage gets cheaper
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guiltyspark85 said:
Anna's Archive has scraped Spotify.
Torrents aren't actually available yet though.
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Good.

Anna's Archive is making sure we don't have another MySpace incident. Almost 10 years ago, MySpace fucked up their servers and most of the music files were corrupted. Early recordings of bands that would became big, gone. Indie bands that made a few tracks, gone.

FYI in recent years some of the MySpace stuff was in fact uncovered and archived:
 
guiltyspark85 said:
Anna's Archive has scraped Spotify.

Torrents aren't actually available yet though.
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I wonder if they were able to get songs that were removed from Spotify as well, if not then at least the metadata would be helpful. Sucks they couldn't get lossless quality but it's at least high enough that most casual listeners won't notice.

It's weird how piracy and preservation go hand in hand whether intentionally or not. People complain now that this is such a "horrible" thing and then 30 years later everyone will be praising it as an important "archive" of human history after the Worldwide Gangster Computer God takes over and bans all music

Also can't wait for all the big AI companies to leech off these archives and not give a penny to support them or even seed the collection.
 
My ISP when I mysteriously have 300 TB more downloaded than usual, but I used a vpn
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The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
The storage situation could be better. Storage costs are going to rise in 2026.
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To that I would say that Silicon is cyclical. Prices getting pushed up for short term bubbles will ultimately push fabs to get better at production. In a few years, when the dust settles from the AI race, these companies will be left with stupidly efficient fabs and a wallop of leftover inventory.
 
A Deer In Headlights said:
Also can't wait for all the big AI companies to leech off these archives and not give a penny to support them or even seed the collection.
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Anna's Archive has sold/traded access to books/texts to the AI companies willing to pay for an illicit source... the Chinese ones:

Anna's Archive offers high-speed access to its full collection via SFTP to groups training large language models (LLMs) in exchange for large contributions of money or data. It said it provided such access to about 30 companies as of January 2025, primarily based in China, including both LLM companies and data brokers. DeepSeek's VL model was partly trained on ebook data from the site.
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TorrentFreak: Pirate Libraries Are Forbidden Fruit for AI Companies. But at What Cost? (archive) (mega)
https://annas-archive.org/llm (archive) (mega)

I'm not sure we'd see the same arrangement for music, if it's just going to be served over torrents. And SueNooooo! (Suno) + Udio already did the deed.
 
Big Lenny said:
Stuff like this makes me optimistic for the future of the internet. As storage gets cheaper, its going to be easier to self-host all your content.
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Give it 15 or so years, they'll be pushing everyone into 'cloud computing' where you'll be priced out of making your own PC and have to pay $30+ a month to 'rent' a virtual PC
 
SandyCat said:
Give it 15 or so years, they'll be pushing everyone into 'cloud computing' where you'll be priced out of making your own PC and have to pay $30+ a month to 'rent' a virtual PC
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If we had South Korea-tier internet speeds and infrastructure that'd work but outside of major cities, and in several of the older big cities, there's little fiber and mostly still copper. You can't do cloud computing on internet less than 10MB/s. And what about when Cloudflare shits the bed again? Imagine if every business in America can't do business because some pajeet pushed shitty AI code and breaks everything for a few hours.
 
SandyCat said:
They've been trying to push everything into subscription based territory. It's a real possibility we'll see it completely overtaking computers in our lifetime.
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Please don't terrify me of the inevitable future. -- As long as I live, I will build my computers, my children will build computers, my grandchildren will, et cetera. I will keep my hardware until I die.

Mr. Racewar1488 said:
If we had South Korea-tier internet speeds and infrastructure that'd work but outside of major cities, and in several of the older big cities, there's little fiber and mostly still copper. You can't do cloud computing on internet less than 10MB/s. And what about when Cloudflare shits the bed again? Imagine if every business in America can't do business because some pajeet pushed shitty AI code and breaks everything for a few hours.
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Not having an internet connection used to be commonplace, where DVD games game with an offline mode, just in case, in the 360-era. Now you have to install online updates or you won't even be able to play the game. It's quite insane. It's not about the here-and-now, it's about future possibility. You're their bitch at that point. Perhaps that companies issue their own DNS back-up servers, for when Cloudflare shits the bed again (three times this year). Having to issue local DNS policy into work computers, it's not an insane thought.
 
Mr. Racewar1488 said:
If we had South Korea-tier internet speeds and infrastructure that'd work but outside of major cities, and in several of the older big cities, there's little fiber and mostly still copper. You can't do cloud computing on internet less than 10MB/s. And what about when Cloudflare shits the bed again? Imagine if every business in America can't do business because some pajeet pushed shitty AI code and breaks everything for a few hours.
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Bro, they don't care. They just want to collect your monthly rent and you can go fuck yourself after that.
 
SandyCat said:
Give it 15 or so years, they'll be pushing everyone into 'cloud computing' where you'll be priced out of making your own PC and have to pay $30+ a month to 'rent' a virtual PC
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15 years? That’s optimistic. The big tech bros are trying to fast-track that by making hardware nearly impossible to find and letting the consumer market languish.

You will own nothing and be happy.
 
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