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I download everything I like. Storage is cheap now.

Plus smaller sites will start disappearing because of regulatory capture. It will not be possible to run a forum or similar site in few years.



We say that a lot, but it's not that cheap if you're using redundancy and backups. It's cheap if you don't care too much about the data.


Cataloging and indexing and searchability are also not cheap if you are doing all of that on your own time.




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