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0 pointscosmojg3y ago0 comments

I'm interested! I wish I knew about your site before it went down. I run a seedbox, and I've been on the hunt for popular-but-legal torrents to support. I'd be more than happy to take a swing at running your site, if only to be a user myself.

Feel free to reach out if you're genuinely interested in passing on the torch:

torrents@cosmo.red

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bolanyo3y ago· 4 in thread

the internet archive have torrents of all their media, although very many of them aren't seeded

I've tried helping keeping and seeding some historical archives, but it gets tedious quickly downloading one by one (and there's not much activity in them anyway). It would be nice if there was a more organized way of helping archival! (like downloading a large chunk of their database and seeding it automatically)

deadbunny3y ago

On one of my high seas sites there is an archive team which uses the API to find "at risk" torrents (<3 seeds). People dedicate X TB and have a script that hits the API, finds some at risk torrents then grabs them to seed and repeats till it fills the space alotted to archiving purposes.

Seems like something the IA could implement with some help.

rolph3y ago

it is possible to resurect a dead torrent, you need, a copy of the original file[s] in the torrent, and duplication of the original directory path.

wordpad253y ago

are there archives to go to for dead torrents? any places that seeds dead torrents on demand?

andrey_utkin3y ago

I am interested in helping (and seeing that treasure), please contact me too: spry.sock7211@fastmail.com

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