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Written by Brewster Kahle on 2025-01-11 at 22:50

"Review Spam," or commercially motivated posts, on the Internet Archive spiked to 99.9% of our reviews just before the election and when we were hit with a cyber attack and ddos.

When we recovered, spam outnumbered real reviews 20-to-1.

It has always been a cat-and-mouse game, but the mice became RoboMice.

So now the @internetarchive has RoboKitties!

RoboKitties-- Go Eat them RoboMice! (Robokitties are currently winning.)

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Written by Wigbert B 🎻🏛🎭🎤🗞🎥📚 on 2025-01-11 at 23:11

@brewsterkahle @internetarchive

that is #goodnews !

wishing you much success in training them to defend against future robo-rats , when they grow up to become counterdefense-cats…

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Written by FeelingJalapeno on 2025-01-12 at 00:17

Good to hear. There was so much review spam with links to malware that abused the text styling.

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Written by Brewster Kahle on 2025-01-12 at 00:26

@FeelingJalapeno @internetarchive

yes, that is another thing we are looking to do-- make the reviews more distinct.

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Written by FeelingJalapeno on 2025-01-12 at 00:43

Awesome!

By the way, has the @internetarchive team had a look at the new BitTorrent V2 Protocol?

It would solve some problems that the current archive.org torrents have. They are often missing files that were added after torrent creation.

The problem is, that huge archives take a lot of time to upload and often by the time only a part of the total files is uploaded, the torrent creation starts, leaving the rest of the files excluded.

Maybe BitTorrent V2 could solve this with mutable torrents that can be updated?

Found this pretty interesting:

https://medium.com/@kyodo-tech/bittorrent-protocol-v2-and-dynamic-content-updates-ee2d8cbd05df

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Written by Brewster Kahle on 2025-01-12 at 19:53

@FeelingJalapeno @internetarchive

thank you. it has been a long time since we have looked at the torrent creation code.

I will pass it on.

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Written by Aaron Ximm on 2025-01-17 at 19:57

@FeelingJalapeno @brewsterkahle @internetarchive

Hi! Thanks for the pointer on this, it is interesting! Years ago when we first added Torrent support to the Archive, we were an advocate for the concept of mutable Torrents for exactly the sorts of reasons you describe. I wasn't aware that was surfaced in v2 and it's absolutely of interest to us.

Thanks for the pointer!

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