Furthermore it would not be so hard to translate Archive.org items to IPFS objects, if there were an effort to pin a significant number of them to storage and network.
(50 petabytes * 0.2% = 100 terabytes)
[$0.005 ($/GB/Month) BackBlaze cost]
[(50 petabytes) / (1 gigabyte) = 50,000,000]
(50,000,000 * $0.005 = $250,000 US$)
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Meaning based on my numbers, that is $250,000 USD a month to host 50 petabytes of data on BackBlaze.
Also, those backups would be (relatively) cheap to keep, but not necessarily to restore.
I had constant issues with objects simply never (hours and many requests) being found, despite being pinned in several places; and the daemon sucked resources away from the system at an alarming rate back when I was trying properly.
With all that being said, maybe now is the time to look at it properly, the budgets are there. Maybe Juan, _prometheus, can find somebody to at least PoC this important application.