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I need help archiving a site with public interest that is being kept walled off with registration
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There is a site which requires login (but allows registration) and restricts downloads to 5/day, 75/mo per account. The site contains service manuals for old devices which are given to the site admin by the public, but he wants to keep them from being distributed elsewhere for some reason.

This bothers me since repair info should be public. The admin does not have have the copyrights to these manuals and thus has no claim to them.

I have a list of direct file links (which require a referrer from that site, but easy enough to spoof). These are in a spreadsheet and a line separated text file. I do not want to violate any applicable computer misuse laws or contract terms, so my plan is to outsource this to the community where everyone who has an account can download 5 files a day, mark them on the spreadsheet and upload those files to a public server.

How would I go about this?

Thanks.

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