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Re: Full archives of Game Developer magazine

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Post by damien »

_pmf_ wrote: post #36
Groxx wrote: post #25

Especially since this collection isn't going to change, I'm confused as usual why they don't include a 'download them all' torrent link. Torrents are wonderful for things like this - reduced hosting costs, often significantly faster download rates, and nearly perfect resumeability even in cases of extremely bad internet connections. Win/win/win but very few do it.

Offering a torrent could be legally interpreted as giving up copyright for the work(s) offered by the torrent.

What? That doesn't sound right... how does the distribution method affect copyright? Think of all the free software (with licenses dependent on copyright) that's made available over BitTorrent. Or World of Warcraft game updates, or humble bundle games, or ...

Re: Full archives of Game Developer magazine

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Post by Groxx »

Groxx wrote: post #25

Especially since this collection isn't going to change, I'm confused as usual why they don't include a 'download them all' torrent link. Torrents are wonderful for things like this - reduced hosting costs, often significantly faster download rates, and nearly perfect resumeability even in cases of extremely bad internet connections. Win/win/win but very few do it.

Ah, excellent, thanks candydance[1]: torrent is here http://thepiratebay.sx/torrent/8940823/Game_Developer_Magazi...

or the magnet if you don't care for ads with boobs:

    magnet:?xt=urn:btih:4396a06317a9a9d757a703a58fcba001c337adc3&dn=Game+Developer+Magazine+Complete+1994-2013+Archives&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.istole.it%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.ccc.de%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1337
It's even categorized by code/zine and year, nice work! My wget attempt was still running D:

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6531569

Re: Full archives of Game Developer magazine

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Post by reidrac »

Groxx wrote: post #43
Groxx wrote: post #25

Especially since this collection isn't going to change, I'm confused as usual why they don't include a 'download them all' torrent link. Torrents are wonderful for things like this - reduced hosting costs, often significantly faster download rates, and nearly perfect resumeability even in cases of extremely bad internet connections. Win/win/win but very few do it.

Ah, excellent, thanks candydance[1]: torrent is here http://thepiratebay.sx/torrent/8940823/Game_Developer_Magazi... or the magnet if you don't care for ads with boobs: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:4396a06317a9a9d757a703a58fcba001c337adc3&dn=Game+Developer+Magazine+Complete+1994-2013+Archives&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.istole.it%3A6969&tr=udp%…

Thanks, that's appreciated. Not because the boobs but because TPB is blocked by some^W UK Internet providers (including mine).

Re: Full archives of Game Developer magazine

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Post by NKCSS »

meritt wrote: post #4

If you want to download all the PDFs to your current working directory: wget -rH -nd -Dubm-us.net -Apdf http://gdcvault.com/gdmag Edit: for the curious, the flags are: -r recursively retrieve all the links on the page -H span hosts (default would stay with gdcvault.com only) -nd don't replicate directory hierarchy, just download the files to cwd -D only download from ubm-us.net -A pdf extensions only

Once the download is done, you might want to do:

mv GDM_February_.pdf GDM_February_2010.pdf

to make sure the nameing is consistent :)

Re: Full archives of Game Developer magazine

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Post by Tomis02 »

meritt wrote: post #4

If you want to download all the PDFs to your current working directory: wget -rH -nd -Dubm-us.net -Apdf http://gdcvault.com/gdmag Edit: for the curious, the flags are: -r recursively retrieve all the links on the page -H span hosts (default would stay with gdcvault.com only) -nd don't replicate directory hierarchy, just download the files to cwd -D only download from ubm-us.net -A pdf extensions only

A cross-platform solution would be using Opera 12's sidebar, going to links, selecting all 'view' links and downloading all at once. Or use Opera to download the torrent.

Re: Full archives of Game Developer magazine

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Post by ANTSANTS »

Tomis02 wrote: post #46
meritt wrote: post #4

If you want to download all the PDFs to your current working directory: wget -rH -nd -Dubm-us.net -Apdf http://gdcvault.com/gdmag Edit: for the curious, the flags are: -r recursively retrieve all the links on the page -H span hosts (default would stay with gdcvault.com only) -nd don't replicate directory hierarchy, just download the files to cwd -D only download from ubm-us.net -A pdf extensions only

A cross-platform solution would be using Opera 12's sidebar, going to links, selecting all 'view' links and downloading all at once. Or use Opera to download the torrent.

Is Opera really more cross-platform than wget?

Re: Full archives of Game Developer magazine

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Post by atilimcetin »

meritt wrote: post #4

If you want to download all the PDFs to your current working directory: wget -rH -nd -Dubm-us.net -Apdf http://gdcvault.com/gdmag Edit: for the curious, the flags are: -r recursively retrieve all the links on the page -H span hosts (default would stay with gdcvault.com only) -nd don't replicate directory hierarchy, just download the files to cwd -D only download from ubm-us.net -A pdf extensions only

Also here is the list of all pdfs: https://gist.github.com/schnabear/6657115/raw/9b8a2527cfeca6...

You can save this list to a file (e.g. GDMAG.txt) and run

  wget -c -i GDMAG.txt
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