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?

  • copacetic@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • Alex Schroeder@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Tricky, because some people take down blogs because they no longer want anything to do with it. Are you going to resurrect things against their will? What about dead people? What about their relatives? All of that before we’re getting into copyright and profits (for which I have much less regard).

    • Hexed Press@lemm.eeOPM
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      1 year ago

      I think once you publish, the cat’s out of the bag. You can take it down on your end but I don’t know id there’s some right to force others to destroy it too. I think the digital world twists this a bit but, in an analog sense, if I clip something out of a magazine article and, some time later, the author retracts it. That had no authority on me if I want to reference it in an article that I write.