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On Sun, 01 Mar 2026 19:21:19 -0500, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> said this thing:

Why do I only hear about these things after their gone? Well, nearly
gone; the administrators of Myrient --a self-described 'video game
archive'-- is reporting* that due to increased costs, they'll no
longer be able to maintain their 390TB archive of games 'n' stuff, and
will be shutting down by end of March. They point their fingers at
AI-bros for snarfing up all the RAM and hard-disks necessary to keep
the servers running, but I wouldn't be surprised if there are legal >complications as well. I'm not really sure what that archive includes,
but at 390TB I doubt all of it is on the up-n-up.

Whew! We dodged a bullet there! But it turns out that the 385GB
archive of old video games (many pirated) has been saved after all.
Apparently half a petabyte of storage isn't quite the hardship it used
to be, since it's been backed up by unnamed sources. Currently that
archive is only available by torrent, but plans are to make it
available by website eventually. *

Again, I can't say I'm thrilled at the piratey-bits, but some of the
games archived just aren't easily available anywhere else, usually
because of licensing issues ("No One Lives Forever", is one example...
but it's popular enough that there are numerous other sources for that
game. But where else are you going to find the PC version of 2003's
"Fantastic 4"?). So the archive has value and I'm glad it's not been
lost forever.

I wish I had a petabyte of storage.







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* the follow-up story https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/385tb-video-game-archive-saved-by-fans-myrient-has-been-100-percent-backed-up-and-validated-torrents-being-generated



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