[topkai22]

Always be cautious of a technological solution to an organizational problem.

A distributed file system would build robustness into the system and keep the data from getting deleted, but only at appropriate scale. Even assuming enough scale, how do you ensure ongoing operation of the data collection aspects of archive.org, or the development of the distribution tools like the wayback machine. I’ve also seen enough distributed files systems come and go to have concerns about data rot.

As important as a distributed technological solution is setting up legal entities and ownership structures to ensure the archiving activities continue even if one of the entities does something risky.