[30367286]

A long time ago, on what.cd, I spent some time to upload rare and odd CDs I found at the library in Austin, TX. For a while, I had only one downloader, consistently. A user name Librarian. I looked up their IP address as it was connected to my seedbox and it was The Internet Archive’s. I suspect they have more content than they let on — that they are sitting on a trove of content that they are waiting for copyright expirations or reform.

If I were Kahle, on my death bed I would just upload the entire archive to some IPFS or torrent site and just let it all be free.

Side note: libgen is still around and it’s also another pure instance of what the internet should be.

[zozbot234]

> I suspect they have more content than they let on — that they are sitting on a trove of content that they are waiting for copyright expirations or reform.

This is one of the things that their official status as a "library" explicitly allows them to do, so yes, I think they have even acknowledged that. When stuff goes into the public domain, the Internet Archive will release it.

[dewey]

> Librarian

If I'm remembering it correctly the user name was "Archivist". As far as I know most of the meta data of the albums that were listed on What are publicly visible on archive.org.

[30367286]

You are correct. It was Archivist.