WASHINGTON—Alarmed at the prospect of unconstitutional overreach by the Trump administration, millions of fearful Americans have already begun stockpiling facts before the federal government comes to take them away, sources confirmed Friday. “I know my rights as an American, so you’d better believe I’m getting my hands on as many facts as possible and keeping them somewhere safe where this First Amendment–hating president of ours can’t snatch them all up,” said Pittsburgh resident David Edelman, 38, adding that he was worried that President Trump planned to not only suspend production of facts, but also seize existing ones, leaving Americans and their families completely defenseless. “The minute I saw Trump, I knew he was someone who didn’t grow up around facts or the kind of folks who use facts. Well, the founding fathers cherished my right to possess facts, and they’d be rolling in their graves if they knew the Feds were going to bust in and try to steal our facts in the middle of the night.” A spokesperson for the Trump administration dismissed such fears, saying that the president merely wanted to keep facts away from certain dangerous people.
It’s been backed up a zillion times already. Scanning a rare old book and uploading it to Internet Archive and/or Libgen/Z-lib, seeding Anna’s Archive torrents, stuff of that sort is more valuable than an another copy of Wikipedia on your hard drive where nobody will ever touch it.
Por que no los dos?
Also, donate to the internet archive. If they go down the internet is megafucked.
You’re assuming they don’t manage to make ISP’s shut down suspected torrent users and nuke IA from orbit.
If it’s on your HD, they have to come and take it from you directly for you to lose it.
Still contribute to IA and AA, absolutely, but don’t except them always to be there.
Unless things change direction, all that shit is going to have to way further underground and we might end up sneakernetting shit if they decide high-speed internet is to be completely censored.
I know the IA has mentioned in the past they have projects in place to try to back up their archive. I hope their backup plans are true, and if they are attacked by the US, they can relocate to a new safe haven and come back online quickly. The IA has been such a wonderful resource for research and accountability.
I suppose the major bit of hope I have about the IA is with their partnership with the Library of Congress.
As for ISPs shutting down Torrent users, I suspect they would do that strictly based on bandwidth usage alone. I know my local Cable company will send nastygrams if they see you using a disproportionate amount of bandwidth compared to other customers. I’ve seen them also shut down Business Internet accounts for doing the exact same thing!
Also something that you should consider regarding Libgen:
if you go to university you can get access to a lot of studies and papers through your university. This also means, that you can download them and then upload them to libgen, to make them more accessible.
Yep, that’s a good practice as well. But make sure to clean up the watermarks that contain identifying info! (I recommend PDF-XChange for that, it’s really powerful.) Sci-hub PDFs are full of them and I wonder if the uploaders ever got exposed that way and had trouble, aside from Aaron Swartz.