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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 Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I also want to know where the hell I can get a VPS server for $3.99. I'd imagine a virtual private server server would be the actual box which hosts the VPS containers. Way to summarize, faggots.

  2. Re:author makes no reasonable point by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The BBC is (ideally) the people's counterbalance to the freedom of the press belonging to the owners of the presses.

    The BBC speaks for nobody except the Guardian-reading leftists who work for it. They consistently monster any Conservative (or lately LibDem) who appears on their programmes while giving Labour an easy ride and packing the audiences of shows like Question Time with baying Trotskyites.

    "people's counterbalance"... don't make me laugh!