Re: An appeal for more bandwidth to the Internet Archive

[Tim Požár <pozar () lns com>]

Heh.  I just did this recently as I started a low power FM station 
(KPEA-LP).  I did a bulk download of about 10,000 cuts of IA's 78 
collection from 1923 and earlier as those recordings are all in the 
public domain.

Tim

On 5/12/20 11:50 AM, Tom Hayward wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 10:32 AM colin johnston <colinj () gt86car org uk> wrote:
> > Is the increased usage due to more users or more existing users having higher bandwidth at home to request faster ?
> > Would be interested if IPS configured firewall used to block out invalid traffic/spam traffic and if such traffic 
> > increased when back end network capacity increased ?
> > What countries are requesting the most data and does this analysis throw up questions as to why ?
> > Are there high network usage hitters which raise question as to why asking for so much data time and time again and is 
> > this valid traffic use ?
>
> Amongst a certain group of users, bulk downloading of the archive is popular:
> https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/an8srw/is_there_anyway_to_bulk_download_collections_from/
>
> Tom