[Coco] Color Computer Archive Question...

[Allen Huffman]

> On Jan 22, 2015, at 8:15 AM, Zippster <zippster278 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> What’s the problem with that exactly?  
> Are site owners being charged by the mb for downloads?
> Small, personal type servers that get bogged down?

Yes to all. Depends on the hosting plan. Simplenet, back in the day, had "unlimited bandwidth and storage" -- my early photo site was there, pushing the boundaries with hundreds of megabytes of storage :)  Yahoo! bought them and shut that nonsense down. But yeah, it could be $$$.

> I don’t see why a site (or chunks of it) couldn’t be packed into an archive
> and put on a google drive type account for download.  A small Paypal
> could even be charged for the dl link if needed.

But then you are "selling copyrighted material"... Tricky.

For Mac users (or Linux), it's trivial to write a script that will snarf up all the files in a web page using command line utilities. I did this to grab all the MAME artwork from a site -- it would "wget" the HTML page, then I'd run it through some filters and emit command lines to download the individual zips.

Who runs the Archive?

		-- A