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Re:Link rot and redirect madness by isoos on Thursday December 10, 2015 @04:56PM (#10713788)
I've recently started to consider tools like wkhtmltopdf [1] to easily dump a website I'd like to link to. Then I'd include both the original link and the pdf version on the blog page, in order to keep the linked structure and the archived version at the same spot.

I haven't done it yet, but would be interested in other's experiences. It would be interesting to have a crawler that does it automatically for each new post.

[1] http://wkhtmltopdf.org/

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Re:Link rot and redirect madness by dangrossman on Thursday December 10, 2015 @05:21PM (#10713991)
This would be problematic legally, even when what you're linking to offers a permissive license of some sort.
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Re:Link rot and redirect madness by mirimir on Thursday December 10, 2015 @05:09PM (#10713889)
I tend to keep local PDFs of everything that seems crucial. But linking to them seems ethically questionable. But maybe as a last resort, with an explanatory comment.
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