It seems like this should be easy to do but I haven't heard about it before. Most wifi routers have a usb slot where you could put a memory stick or external hard drive filled with e-books or movies or whatever. Broadcast it unsecured with an appropriate network name and let anyone connect to download stuff.
You wouldn't connect it to the internet, it would just be an access point for the stored drive. You'd probably have to make it read-only so that people don't delete stuff or upload viruses or cp. It seems like it could be used as a node for a mesh network too but I don't know enough about how those operate.
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[–] 963189_137 ago (edited ago)
Yes, there was a whole company that was going to maintain remote perfect mirror copies of the internet that were not accessible by wifi (so that they couldn't 'be altered') they were bought out and dismembered/destroyed. When they want to alter information, there BETTER NOT FUCKING BE AN INDEPENDENT COPY OF THE DATA...see what I mean? ;)