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0 pointsicebraining12y ago0 comments

By leveraging Flickr, the library frees itself of the problems of dealing with tens of millions of users attempting to access its material.

We already have an open and free technology for that: Bittorrent.

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mseebach12y ago· 1 in thread

Yeah, that's totally reasonable. Just tell people to torrent a couple of terabytes, then sift through the pictures on their hard drive, using only the file system to guide them. The hardware cost is probably several hundred pounds and the download should take about two weeks if they've got a good broadband connection.

But, hey, you cut out the evil evil American company Flickr (boo), so everybody's better off.

icebrainingOP12y ago

You shouldn't assume I necessarily agree with the condemnation against using Flickr just from what I wrote; it's not an approach conducible to good debate. My opinion is that Bittorrent would be a good technology for the purpose, since it freed the organization from the distribution problem without being tied to a third-party service. But I have nothing against also using Flickr, on the contrary. As PavlovsCat wrote, the more the merrier.

rmc12y ago· 1 in thread

Vast majority of the population do not have the knowledge to use that. Surely it's good to spread the history and these documents as far as possible. Putting requirements and barriers like "you must use bit torrent" excludes people.

icebrainingOP12y ago

Sure, but what about using both?

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