> did a giant curl job, recursively regex'd out the login/comment submission fields and dumped them on s3

it's because even this cost outweighs how much they care about the content, which is 0... the people who make decisions like this aren't scrimping pennies or interested in preserving effort... they're looking for the simplest way to get millions of dollars into their pockets

doing the bare minimum to maintain a library of content indefinitely isn't it

these are the kind of people who would happily set fire to a library if they could get away with insurance fraud