We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with enough disk space), with 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens.
Eh - maybe - there are definitely hoarders with the ability to absorb 300TB. They’re not common, but they do exist. There are probably close to zero hoarders that could spare 3PB, especially for a collection that they won’t listen to a majority of. It’s like saying that it isn’t worth digitizing wax tube recordings because the source is so low quality. If preservation is the goal, anything is better than nothing.
Eh - maybe - there are definitely hoarders with the ability to absorb 300TB. They’re not common, but they do exist. There are probably close to zero hoarders that could spare 3PB, especially for a collection that they won’t listen to a majority of. It’s like saying that it isn’t worth digitizing wax tube recordings because the source is so low quality. If preservation is the goal, anything is better than nothing.