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Moral and legal implications of rehosting blogs for preservation? (forums.hexed.press)

submitted 1 year ago by HexedPress@lemm.ee to c/osr@lemm.ee

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This was posted to my forums and I thought it was an important enough topic to deserve more attention:

What is this communities (sic) opinion on saving and potentially rehosting (breaking copyright) of RPG blogs, posts, etc. in the potential event of that contents host going down?

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[–] copacetic@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Morally, the difference is for what purpose you rehost stuff. The great thing about archive.org is that it has a clear purpose of preservation. If someone does it on their homepage where they also sell other stuff, the purpose might be to increase traffic and sales, so the purpose becomes murky.

[–] HexedPress@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mentioned archive.org on my reply in the forum. I've never tried saving something to the archive. Does it handle threaded forum style discussions well? That might be one complication for saving at least some sorts of things.

[–] roflo1@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not sure what you expect when you ask " Does it handle threaded forum style discussions well?".

Luckily, it's really simple. It took me less than a minute to save this:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230710165305/https://forums.hexed.press/t/moral-and-legal-implications-of-rehosting-blogs-for-preservation/549

[–] ianboyte@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This was more to the effect of how to capture a thread that was (by the point the forums were defunct) several dozen pages long.

[–] ianboyte@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Yes, this is where some of the moral implications come in, because there is potentially profit motive if I'm selling a game system book, but I link to articles for inspiration appendix N style.