One geek spent $ 3.99 and saved the BBC websites
On January 24, 2011, the BBC company announced the removal of 172 of its sites in order to reduce staff costs. They promised to keep the archives only offline. Since the sites have some historical value, and the BBC already has experience in deleting valuable archival data, a logical solution has matured: download these sites completely and put them in open access to save the information.
A volunteer did just that . He spent $ 3.99 on a VPS server and in less than a day downloaded all the content and uploaded the torrent .
Of course, for the BBC, the cost of storing and maintaining this content far exceeds the amount of $ 3.99 per month, but even in this case it is unlikely that we are talking about some huge budgets, so they are obviously too smart with the “savings”.
Anyone wishing to download a torrent is recommended to do it quickly, because competent BBC lawyers can quickly close the site.
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Since there is a clear violation of the law, a kind person in the distribution has to hide his name. However, there are certain guesses that it might be some kind of Japanese.
A volunteer did just that . He spent $ 3.99 on a VPS server and in less than a day downloaded all the content and uploaded the torrent .
Of course, for the BBC, the cost of storing and maintaining this content far exceeds the amount of $ 3.99 per month, but even in this case it is unlikely that we are talking about some huge budgets, so they are obviously too smart with the “savings”.
Anyone wishing to download a torrent is recommended to do it quickly, because competent BBC lawyers can quickly close the site.
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Since there is a clear violation of the law, a kind person in the distribution has to hide his name. However, there are certain guesses that it might be some kind of Japanese.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/288842/
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