In order for courts, journals, scholars, and others to have permanent records of sources that they cite, PPN is the only viable option to consider.
Problem
Unless I2P is utilized, publications that are hosted over FTP, Gemini, Gopher, HTTP, and XMPP could be blocked, censored, change, and defunct.
Yet, even when decentrlized systems, such as I2P, are utilized, the pathnames of sites could still change, whether intentionally or otherwise.
P2P
P2P (peer-to-peer) is a technology for the distribution of permanent information utilizing checksums.
Unlike centralized source, P2P relys on the identity of files that are being published and distributed.
FTP, Gemini, Gopher, HTTP, and XMPP sites are subjected to change; and yet P2P links (URIs) never change.
P2P helps courts, journals, scholars, and others to create permanent records of sources that they cite.
P2P is simple, easy to use, and is built and supported by libraries.
Invalid links
Invalid links (colloquially and informally referred to as “link rot”) is a reference to URI/URL resources that are not valid as the original poster has initially intended.
It is a state of affairs when a link to an online document is altreed, blank (empty), deleted, moved, reorganized, or hijacked.
Clicking on an invalid link usually results in an error "not found", which is one of the main reasons to utilize PPN metadata.
So it is, when linked citations refer to online pages that are not as they were when initially linked and referred to, then this type of situation is referred to as “link rot”.
Those who cites links of centralized resources are affected
Over 70% of cited links in court opinions are not directing to their intended documents.
Roughly 90% of cited links in academic journals and 20% of all science, technology, and medicine articles are subjected to link rot.
Invalid links are not helpful to the erectness of your citations
At the first couple of years, this might not be an issue; yet
At the third or fifth year, the amount of invalid or inaccessible links is expected to reach to 30% in average; and
At the sixth or ninth year, the amount of links is expected to grow to 60% in average; and
As time furthers, the amount is expected to reach to 90% and then it is expected to conclude at an utter failure of 100% invalidity.
Invalid links are inevitable and oftenly irreversible.
Introducing Magnet Link
A Magnet Link is a reliable and unbreakable link to an unalterable record of any content that you cite.
It can be considered as a “time capsule” for any type of content, such as articles, music, photos, videos, and other sorts of multimedia, which anyone can obtain.
Preservation by design
PPN was made for content to be preserved and for people to be mutually committed to the preservation of contents.
P2P helps courts, journals, and scholars to prevent invalid links by creating permanent, reliable, unalterable Magnet Links to the sources cited in researches and works.
Once a Magnet Link is created and its content is distributed for a few days, neither its content nor its address will change, not even during war time or internet collapse.
Q: Who operates and owns P2P?
A: Everyone, from individuals to organizations.
Q: How long do Magnet Links last?
A: For as long as at least some one has the actual content and distributes it.
Q: Can I delete a Magnet Link?
A: No.
Q: Can I stop sharing my contents, after they were once distributed?
A: No. Once distributed, it is impossible to stop the further distribution of already shared contents.
Q: Is P2P open source?
A: Yes. It is an open and free specification to everyone.
It is easy to create and utilize Magnet Links.
Arrange. Select. Magnet.
Phase 1
Save an internet page which you want to preserve, and save it as Atom Syndication Format, EPUB, HTMLZ, MHTML, or XHTML.
Phase 2
Create a Metalink or Torrent file from the desired files, or copy the Magnet Link from the list of shared files in eMule or Shareaza, and PPN metadata would do the rest.
Phase 3
Share and distribute the content of your Magnet Link.
Phase 4
Use the Magnet Link in your citations.
Finally
Use your Magnet Link as you would cite URL addresses.
Your Magnet Link citation is safe from failures, and it will never change, and it will be valid as long as there is at least someone to share this content.
Designed to sustain
Libraries are strongly in the lasting business.
PPN is a guaranty to preserving digital records to the same standards that people preserve physical records.
That is why tens of millions of people a day trust P2P with their contents and citations.
Libraries
Libraries comprise a critical role in powering and supporting P2P.
Courts
Courts demand long-term reliability from the links in their decisions.
Other organizations
There are wide-ranging applications for P2P tools.
Individuals
Anyone can download a free P2P software and start creating Magnet Links.
Developers
Interested in developing with the P2P? Check out P2P for developers.
Warning!
It is important to realize, that anyone who offers a permanent record service which is exclusively structured and relied on centralized means (e.g. FTP, HTTP, et cetera), and without providing IPFS, Magnet Link, Metalink, or Torrent references, is a cheat and a fraud.
It is impossible to offer a reliable and permanent record, unless it is based on P2P technology, such as BitTorrent, eDonkey2000, Gnutella, IPFS, etc.