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I did this for a niche site, but it was only 20 pages. I pulled each page off internet archive, saved it as an archive; then did some minor tidying up, setting

by toast0 2y ago

I did this for a niche site, but it was only 20 pages. I pulled each page off internet archive, saved it as an archive; then did some minor tidying up, setting viewports for mobile, updating the linkback html snippet to go to my url instead of the old dead one, changing the snippet to not suggest hotloading the link image, crop the dead url out of the link image, pngcrush the images, put it on cheap hosting for static pages. I did a bit of poking around trying to find a way to contact the owner, but had no luck. If they come back and want it down, I'll take it down. Copyright notices are intact. I'm clearly violating the author's copyrights, and I accept that.

gopher_space 2y ago
> I'm clearly violating the author's copyrights, and I accept that. I'm looking at combining several old message boards into something useful, and I'd like to be proactive regarding copyright. My approach so far: - I'm assuming that everyone owns their own post/comment. - I'm assuming that submitting content meant they intended to grant rights to community members. - I'm assuming that work done in support of the original community would be welcomed by members. - And I'm assuming this all changes if I want money. So I'm preserving attributions when I can, but treat content like it's CC or similar as long as I'm operating within the original authors area of concern. Anything that actually gets released will be as open as possible... and probably start with telling you how to download files. Entirely walling off my code makes sense but then it is no longer a fun little project, it is a framework.