They actually store multiple copies. They even use IPFS to store it over decentralized network.
But copyright is the main issue we don't see many services like open library or internet archive.
Rest in peace Aaron Swartz
Is it be possible to "donate" storage to the Internet Archive in the form of being part of it's infrastructure but distributed?
Like plug in an off the shelf NAS on my home network which acts as a backup for some part of the archive?
Perhaps that is wasteful, but then again also resilient.
If they store on IPFS (someone else said they did), then the answer is yes. Grab a subset of the content and mirror it to your device. Keep said device online.
Carmen Ortiz shares the blame. Heymann is no longer an AUSA and his career has stalled, to say the least. He will be forever remembered linked with Swartz. Karma is a cold goddess.
People are absolutely, 100% responsible for his death.
A young person near the beginning of their career got sentenced to 13 federal crimes, 50 years of imprisonment and one million dollars in fines, for downloading some PDFs of scientific articles.
It's not like someone asked him to delete the PDFs and he killed himself in protest. His life was ruined to make an example out of him.
Well that is just objectively false. The man was never "sentenced to 13 federal crimes, 50 years of imprisonment and one million dollars in fines". It is blatantly false.
It is objectively false, but the spirit of your comment is grossly incorrect as well. He wasn't sentenced, but the "13 federal crimes" was a plea bargain offered by the prosecution. He killed himself beforehand.
FWIW, I actually have a close friend who ended up in North Kern for a couple years because of a plea deal fiasco. For most of us who never directly interact with the criminal courts, navigating such curcumstances is complelty bonkers and stressful, as I'm sure it was for Swartz.
Over zealous prosecution can make one’s life a living hell which certainly didn’t help.
Add to that a young man who might have had some depression issues (I’m not sure) and you have a heartbreaking tragedy.
From the Wikipedia:
Days before Swartz's funeral, Lawrence Lessig eulogized his friend and sometime-client in an essay, "Prosecutor as Bully." He decried the disproportionality of Swartz's prosecution and said, "The question this government needs to answer is why it was so necessary that Aaron Swartz be labeled a 'felon'. For in the 18 months of negotiations, that was what he was not willing to accept."
I haven't been able to figure out how to access the IPFS versions of the archive. They technically have a version of their site hosted through IPFS (https://www-dweb-cors.dev.archive.org/web), but when searching for a specific url like nytimes.com, it just redirects to the standard archive.org url.