Ai is sometimes correct.
thingsiplay
joined 2 years ago
It doesn't matter in this case, as long as it is documented (and it is by the unit).
However I wonder how this would work. As far as I know Internet Archive have a "Library" status and rights in the US (and only in the US), which grants them rights to archive stuff and have it as download that would be otherwise not legal. That does not mean everything provided there is legal. So leaving the US could actually hurt Internet Archive or the users in the US maybe.
I would be glad if anyone with more insight into this topic could tell me one or two things about it.
Nice stats. I always wondered. I get the feeling that ~678 TB is little bit more than ~111 GB.
Do theverge have this big font or is something broken on my end?
You can download the entirety of Wikipedia for offline usage, BTW. I do this with an application called Kiwix https://kiwix.org/en/ .
- Click "All Files" on the left menu of the program.
- In the bottom search bar (there is one top and one bottom bar) type "wikipedia" to show only those entries matching the search.
- Then click on the "Size" header to sort all entries by size. Usually the biggest one is the most complete.
- Now "Download" it (i already have it, so it says "Open" for me).
Note that the big one with 111 GB contains images and contains all English language Wikipedia articles. The one with 43 GB should be the same I think, but without images. There are many other variants too, varying in content and theme and even build date. In example the one with "1m Top" contains the top 1 million articles only.
Let's assume everything can be generated and photography can be replaced in technical and artistic meaning by 100% and perfect quality. I don't believe we reached that point, but people are accepting low quality if it costs less.
There is still one big unsolved problem: Copyright and License. But I guess if its cheap enough, then most would risk it, if they even know the risk.
Or better yet, ask or lookup multiple sources, so you can somewhat fact check.