> By seeding these torrents, you help preserve humanity’s knowledge and culture. These torrents represent the vast majority of human knowledge that can be mirrored in bulk.
I am having a hard time reading that claim as anything other than a bad-faith justification. Torrent nodes are not at all a good way to "preserve humanity's knowledge and culture".
I only quoted a small bit from their website. Immediately below the quoted bit is this explanation:
> These torrents are not meant for downloading individual books. They are meant for long-term preservation. With these torrents you can set up a full mirror of Anna’s Archive, using our source code and metadata (which can be generated or downloaded as ElasticSearch and MariaDB databases).
I'm not an expert in any of this, but it doesn't strike me as a bad-faith justification of anything.
I am having a hard time reading that claim as anything other than a bad-faith justification. Torrent nodes are not at all a good way to "preserve humanity's knowledge and culture".
EDIT: I'm no longer convinced I'm correct.