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Thrifty, Anonymous Benefactor Backs Up BBC Websites Before They Go Dark

Posted by timothy on from the slurp-and-emit dept.

revealingheart writes "The BBC is set to close down 200 of its websites in the near future as part of cost-cutting measures. Hearing that 172 of these sites would be deleted from the Web entirely, an anonymous individual has taken matters into his or her own hands. The result is a BitTorrent file that anyone can download to store a backup of these 'lost' websites forever. The cost of the project? Apparently no more than $3.99 for a VPS server to crawl and retrieve all the sites."

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  1. Re:What I want to know.... by commodore64_love · · Score: 5, Interesting

    BBC has a real problem understanding the concept of "archiving". For some reason they think just because they are done with the sites, nobody else wants them either, so just erase them.

    It's somewhat similar to how they destroyed 1950s and 60s television tapes.

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