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’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?
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?
It wasn’t really unique, but just the shear breathe and access it provided under one website that amazed me.
I was greeted by an Arabic message, followed by a Captcha with Arabic instruction. Welp.
It’s Persian habibi, this is an Iranian website…