<span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.142857551574707px;background-color:rgb(247,246,242)">Given </span><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(236,236,236)">REDACTEDTORRENTSITE</span><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.142857551574707px;background-color:rgb(247,246,242)">.CD's focus on access and organization, it's no surprise that we would attract the attention of other archival organizations. One such organization is the phenomenal </span><a rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" href="http://archive.org/" class="vt-p" style="padding:0px 10px 0px 0px;margin:0em;text-decoration:none;border:none;color:rgb(10,132,175);background-image:url(https://ssl.what.cd/static/styles/postmod/images/external.png);background-color:rgb(247,246,242);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.142857551574707px;background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat">Internet Archive</a><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.142857551574707px;background-color:rgb(247,246,242)">, which shares our vision of universal access to art, culture and knowledge. </span><br style="padding:0em;margin:0em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.142857551574707px;background-color:rgb(247,246,242)">
<br style="padding:0em;margin:0em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.142857551574707px;background-color:rgb(247,246,242)"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.142857551574707px;background-color:rgb(247,246,242)">So, for the past several months, we have been quietly collaborating with the Internet Archive team, helping them to back up as much of our vast accumulation of metadata as possible. We hope that this collaboration will both improve the state of music organization in the present and benefit other archivist organizations one day when this site is gone. For the official announcement of this collaboration, we would like to share a message from Internet Archive founder </span><a rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster_Kahle" class="vt-p" style="padding:0px 10px 0px 0px;margin:0em;text-decoration:none;border:none;color:rgb(10,132,175);background-image:url(https://ssl.what.cd/static/styles/postmod/images/external.png);background-color:rgb(247,246,242);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.142857551574707px;background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat">Brewster Kahle</a><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.142857551574707px;background-color:rgb(247,246,242)">:</span><br style="padding:0em;margin:0em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.142857551574707px;background-color:rgb(247,246,242)">
<br style="padding:0em;margin:0em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.142857551574707px;background-color:rgb(247,246,242)"><strong class="quoteheader" style="padding:0em;margin:0em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.142857551574707px;background-color:rgb(247,246,242)">Brewster Kahle</strong><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.142857551574707px;background-color:rgb(247,246,242)"> wrote:</span><blockquote style="padding:10px;margin:10px;border:1px dashed rgb(102,102,102);background-color:rgb(236,236,236);color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.142857551574707px">
The achievements of the <a href="http://REDACTEDTORRENTSITE.CD">REDACTEDTORRENTSITE.CD</a> community are astonishing, and the site's superb metadata can significantly help open-source projects such as MusicBrainz.org and <a href="http://acoustid.org">acoustid.org</a> to make a catalog of all recordings.<br style="padding:0em;margin:0em">
<br style="padding:0em;margin:0em">To that end, the <a href="http://REDACTEDTORRENTSITE.CD">REDACTEDTORRENTSITE.CD</a> archive project is a continuation of the Internet Archive's goal of preserving the cultural zeitgeist of the world through time. Along with our book scanning projects and web archival projects, this well curated repository assists us in our mission of obtaining an archival quality copy of every piece of culturally-relevant information. We attempt to make all material as accessible as possible and appropriate. <br style="padding:0em;margin:0em">
<br style="padding:0em;margin:0em">Please let us know what you think the Archive should do to serve the goals of preservation and access.</blockquote><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.142857551574707px;background-color:rgb(247,246,242)">We at the </span><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(236,236,236)">REDACTEDTORRENTSITE</span><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.142857551574707px;background-color:rgb(247,246,242)">.CD staff are immensely proud to work with the Internet Archive team, and we hope our work here will eventually benefit music fans all over the internet.</span><br style="padding:0em;margin:0em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.142857551574707px;background-color:rgb(247,246,242)">
<br style="padding:0em;margin:0em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.142857551574707px;background-color:rgb(247,246,242)"><span style="color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.142857551574707px;background-color:rgb(247,246,242)">And of course, we want to thank you, the users. Our dedicated uploaders and editors ensure that our 276 terabytes of content is well-tagged and well-organized for the benefit of others, and of course our entire userbase helps to keep this content available. You guys make the Internet Archive's work possible, and we are working hard to bring tangible benefits back to you, the users. We are very excited for the possibilities this collaboration will bring! Stay tuned.</span>