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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 6300056, member: 27832&quot;]The Wayback Machine is a new thing under the sun. But it&#039;s a nonprofit effort, and WAY too huge to back up onto a few external drives if the owner can&#039;t pay the bills and a provider decides to pull the plug.</p><p><br /></p><p>I spent close to ten years on a Macintosh discussion forum, where there was LOTS of outstanding technical information and expertise. There was also a lot of chatter and bickering. One day, the parent site apparently decided they were bored with it, and just shut the whole forum down. No warning, no time to find and copy good stuff, it was just gone. The Wayback machine has snapshots of the contents page, and <i>occasional</i> threads, but there&#039;s no way archive.org can keep up with all the forums and discussions on the Internet.</p><p><br /></p><p>But it must cost many thousands of dollars a day for bandwidth to feed archive.org&#039;s maw, and to keep it in mass storage -- not to mention legal fees. It&#039;s a resource of such value that nation-states should be collaborating to protect and support it. But I&#039;m afraid one copyright troll could bring the whole thing crashing down.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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