<story><title>10,000,000,000,000,000 bytes archived</title><url>http://blog.archive.org/2012/10/26/10000000000000000-bytes-archived/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ChuckMcM</author><text>The internet archive is a wonderful thing. I recovered much of my web site when my server burned in a fire, it was cheaper than the $2400 to try to pull it off the melted hard drives. It has also provided fodder for a ton of lawsuits, of the patent/IP/he-said vs she-said varieties.&lt;p&gt;Given the latter use, and subsequent &apos;retro-takedowns&apos; that have occurred on the archive, I wonder if there is a market for &apos;a copy of the archive right now&apos; which would be hard to retro-actively modify? And I wonder what the legal theory would be around having a tape archive of something that was &apos;clear&apos; at the time you took it, but then later &apos;redacted&apos;. Could you use your copy of the unredacted information?</text></comment>
<story><title>10,000,000,000,000,000 bytes archived</title><url>http://blog.archive.org/2012/10/26/10000000000000000-bytes-archived/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Zenst</author><text>I do wonder what the best form of compression would be and given there web pages if some form of customed compression that was optimised for HTML would be useful.&lt;p&gt;There again with that volume of data, what would CERN do for storage/access for a data pool that size and still be useable.&lt;p&gt;Reason being if you wanted to back that lot of up ship copies for research purposes then with todays technology the humble memory stick, even the biggest would fail to even handle the file index on this scale.  Scary amount of data.    But certainly a data set many would like to play with and try things out, being the geeks we are.</text></comment>