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> Now that I’m aware of the 512 MB file limit at Cloudflare, I am moving other larger files in that bucket to archive.org for now (and will add them to my supported Causes).

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> I don’t feel like archive.org should be my site’s dumping ground since it can turn a profit if it gets popular. archive.org is a stop-gap for two files for the time being.

I'm trying to understand... he has decided to burden a charity with his distribution expenses?

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There's some symmetry to the way the Internet Archive assumes consent to reproduce other people's content, and people assuming consent to take advantage of the Internet Archive's mirroring. I don't know if this is in line with the Internet Archive's terms-of-service, or the law.

In this case they'd be getting stuck with a pretty big bandwidth hit.

Well. His measly 30TB probably costs the internet archive a single digit amount.

He could donate $10 to the internet archive and they ought to be even. Way cheaper than those $2656.74

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