Internet Archive unleashes 1PB of data through BitTorrent

08.08.2012
The Internet Archive, a non-profit project established to act as an online library of that preserves digital information, has to date offered up nearly a petabyte of content via the BitTorrent file-sharing site.

In a blog post, said it is offering 1.5 million torrents including live music concerts, the Prelinger movie collection, the librivox audio book collection, feature films, old time radio, more than 1.2 million books, and "all new uploads from patrons who are into community collections."

An example of a BitTorrent movie download, "Night of the Living Dead"

The Internet Archive said it will continue to up from the controversial peer-to-peer file sharing site.

The California-based non-profit organization set up the site to store Internet images, video, audio and webpages for posterity.

BitTorrent has been at the center of copywrite infringement lawsuits. The example, The founders of The Pirate Bay, one of the more popular search engines for BitTorrent content, of crimes against copywrite laws.