Soft 98 is an Iranian software distribution site, that has stood up after sanction had crippled the ability of the normal people and businesses in Iran from getting access to important software from the outside world.
As the Iranian government threatens to cut off from the world this rich archive of software is vulnerable to wiped from the internet. It is one of the most widely diverse software pool that’s trusted I have ever seen.
Is there anyway to pool together resources to save the software’s of this site, which to me is like The Software Library of Alexandria from permanent cyberspace loss.
I suspect the Software Heritage Foundation knows about Soft 98 already and has backed up their stuff, though I haven’t personally checked.
I was greeted by an Arabic message, followed by a Captcha with Arabic instruction. Welp.
They have a captcha solve, so an automated direct scrape or download will be difficult. Can you reach out to the domain admins? I’d be happy to contribute 19TB for temp storage.
Now that I’m in I’m not seeing anything that’s not available anywhere else.
What are you considering to be unique here?
i’ve used this site pretty often, but simply because i saw it on piracy megathread and seemed to work well. i thought this was a simple software crack site similar to others, was there anything special about this site that is worth archiving?
I was greeted by an Arabic message, followed by a Captcha with Arabic instruction. Welp.
Firefox and variants do in-browser translation.
I was greeted by an Arabic message, followed by a Captcha with Arabic instruction. Welp.
Are you a human? Select each square that contains a motorbike.
Okay now this one.
Okay now this one.
Okay now thi- HOW ABOUT FUCK YOUR ARCHIVE I HOPE IT FUCKING BURNS
