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git [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 12 天前

385TB video game archive saved by fans — Myrient has been '100% backed up' and validated, torrents being generated

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385TB video game archive saved by fans — Myrient has been '100% backed up' and validated, torrents being generated

www.tomshardware.com

git [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 12 天前
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Last month, the site’s hosts announced a shutdown due to spiraling costs.
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    385TB is a whole lotta data good grief

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      hopefully its broken up like annas archive are doing with the spotify dump. the myrient collection seems like it would be pretty easy to divide up logically.

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      It is impressive but not truly massive. There are dozens of people on /r/datahoarder who have near or over 1PB (1000TB) of storage so it could be one of them volunteered the space.

      By contrast with something like the internet archive we are truly fucked if it goes belly up as it’s multiple PB of storage.

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      I hereby pledge to never bully a homelabber who mirrors preservation archives for public access.

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      and the industry actively lobbies against it.

      They do not want to compete with themselves. Every player playing an old game is a player not paying to play their new games.

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    thank you you beautiful bastards

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    The AI industry frenzy undoubtedly contributed to the original Myrient archive’s soaring costs, ahead of its closure announcement. Perhaps ironically, if Myrient hadn’t been saved, retro fans may have looked to AI to generate copies of their favorite apps and games of yesteryear?

    tetsuo-brainrot

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    https://minerva-archive.org/

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    Heist of the century

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    Descent: Destination Saturn!

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    There is no actual indication they have successfully mirrored it aside from their claims. Their website and mirroring script was broken as of a week ago.

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