Internet Archive has started distributing 1.4 million torrents

The motto of the Internet Archive is to provide "universal access to all knowledge." At first glance, this is not very different from the mission of The Pirate Bay, but the founders of TPB received prison sentences, and the Internet Archive continues the noble cause of archiving information for future generations.



Now the Internet Archive has entered a new stage in its development, announcing support for the BitTorrent protocol as one of the ways to distribute files. At this point in the torrent tracker Internet Archive registered 1 402 335 torrents, but hundreds of new ones are added every hour. There are 1535 active nodes in the peer-to-peer network, 762 people in the distribution (see the activity chart ). A special section has been launched, where the rating of the most popular distributions is conducted and recommendations for downloading by books, films and music are published.



The project was launched jointly with the company BitTorrent, which actively promotes torrents as a convenient way to distribute films and music. Even the Internet Archive website now states: "This is the fastest download method, because the BitTorrent client receives files from two Internet Archive servers located in different data centers and from other users who have already downloaded torrents data."



Internet Archive officials say BitTorrent is just one step as one of the download methods. In the future, the Internet Archive expects to use a P2P network not only for distribution, but also for storing content.