Decentralised or off-website hosting for zip files

[cpmpercussion]

It doesn't seem unreasonable to allow community members to download the WHOLE NIME PDF archive (for whatever reason they might like).

At the moment the ZIPs aren't linked through AWS as I was worried about the bandwidth fees if people started to do that.

What other options do we have? We could host them on somebody's institutional page (e.g., folk.uio.no)? or create a zip file repo on Zenodo for them (and update the DOI each year with an extra zip file.

[tatecarson]

I found this service Academic Torrents that provides hosting for torrents for free with a university email. I uploaded one NIME paper as an example. Academic papers would just ensure that at least one peer would always be serving the file with more people contributing through their own computers if they choose to. I like it is meant to upload papers as separate files. It also has a BibTeX feature which seems pretty nice. I also see people uploading folders of files so It think we could group together a year of papers that way.

The cool thing about using torrents is that we can provide a link through webtorrents, as I did in that video demo, on the nime.org webpage for people to access the files without having to even know they're using a torrent. It looks like they support videos too, which might solve the speed issue of using torrents for videos.

[tatecarson]

It looks like Academic Torrents doesn't actually seed the files they just host the torrents so it is not as helpful as I thought. It might still be a good idea for large files but I am not sure how it would work.

[alexarje]

Seems like we have two threads running on the same topic here now... I don't think downloading the whole archive is a heavily requested feature, but some people would probably want to do it. I could certainly host it on a UiO server. Have uploaded everything here now: https://www.uio.no/ritmo/english/people/management/alexanje/research/nime/proceedings/