# Key Points from #hplusroadmap IRC Discussions

• The channel extensively discussed Aaron Swartz's death, sharing his continuity plan (aaronsw.com/2002/continuity) which specified making his hard drives publicly available, and reflecting on the implications of his legal case involving JSTOR and MIT.

• Members analyzed the technical challenges of creating comprehensive academic paper archives, noting it would require scraping approximately 200 publishers, storing tens of terabytes of data, and maintaining contributor anonymity.

• A significant security insight emerged that collaborative archiving projects face exponentially increasing privacy risks "almost geometrically with each new member" added to the operation.

• The discussion highlighted a philosophical tension between pure data preservation and building applications on archived data, with consensus that preserving the data itself should be the primary concern before developing search functionality.

• Members debated the relative merits of different preservation strategies, contrasting centralized websites (vulnerable to takedowns) with torrents (difficult to seed at large sizes).

• The Kopimism movement (kopimism.org) was mentioned as "a religion for my inner archivist" focused on the free copying and sharing of information, reflecting broader transhumanist concerns about information preservation.

• Participants noted the declining availability of easily accessible SOCKS proxies compared to the mid-1990s, indicating a broader conversation about privacy tools and network infrastructure for information sharing.