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Comment by MomoXenosaga | Hacker News Reader

I'm a member of a private torrent site that has been around for 15 years whose very mission is preservation. Everything is well seeded even the obscure stuff.

But it's impressive for a public tracker.

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Is there a word for this interaction, where an act is taking place with the knowledge that the action is characterized as 'wrong' but done anyway to achieve an outcome that is ultimately benevolent and a benefit to posterity?

Chaotic-Good

Civil disobedience

That sounds like a valuable and amazing resource, and something to which I’d enjoy contributing! Are they open to new members by any chance?

They are, but it's a little difficult (hence the longevity.) Now that you know it exists, a little determination will get you there, and it'd love to have you.

Yes, it's good enough that this discussion can only possibly refer to one place.

There’s no good general torrent site, don’t mislead people. Specialized, yes. General, no.

Honestly you could be talking about several sites. MYS? HDB?

MYS has been closed forever, so it can't be that one.

...Zion?

Same, and the outage yesterday gave me the willies. I've accumulated a vast upload in that time, and I'm only waiting to move somewhere without ISPs with packet limits to flesh out the disk shelves and get the better part of it archived.

I was pretty disappointed when a games archive torrent site I frequented went down. It had every PS1 game in a nicely organized bundle, and PS2 games. Hundreds of terabytes of archived organized torrents, all gone now.

that site lives with new staff under new name

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