An eagle-eyed poster on the ODD74 forums spotted an interesting find on the Internet Archive: all 19 issues of Ares Magazine.
After some digging on the site, I also found the archives of the following:
EDIT: above links removed, as these are no longer available for public access.
In the non-gaming category we have:
CRAZY, Marvel's attempt at a Mad Magazine knock-off - 91 issues!
Galaxy Magazine, the classic magazine of American science fiction - 104 issues!
Starlog Magazine - 208 issues!
Holy crap! How can these even be legal?
Edit 1: Some of these files have been siting on the archive for about a month and a half. Check out the "this just in" box at the bottom of the Polyhedron link above for example.
Is this the work of a pirate, uploading a torrent to the site? I don't know. Many of the files are available in PDF, OCRed PDF, epub, and other formats. This kinda look official, but also kinda doesn't. What do you think?
Edit 2: Obviously, if these links turn out to be illegal and the files are removed from the Internet Archive, I will remove these links and the links on any subsequent post about these magazines, as I do not want to link to pirated material.
That said, the Internet Archive is recognized as a non-profit library by the state of California and is a member of the American Library Association, so these materials might be perfectly legal.
Edit 3: According to the XML files located in each of the directories for the individual files, these were uploaded by someone using the email address "federicoleva@tiscali.it".
6 comments:
Sweet jeebus! Click click click!
Any way to download the entirety of Ares, Polyhedron and Space-Gamer without doing it issue by issue? (No, I haven't looked yet... but maybe somebody has a link to an archive file or something)
...actually, I see it's fairly regular. I'll have to script something up tonight or tomorrow morning to grab them all.
Yes that stuff is there, but if a copyright holder asks, archive.org will take it down... I think people may upload stuff without thinking.
Ooh -- and Omni magaizne! Loved that magazine. Great for RPG ideas too. And IIRC, they were one of the first mainstream outlets to report on the federales' raid on Steve Jackson Games over GURPS Cyberpunk! 1989 or 1990 I think.
I was hoping that I could get them all at once time rather than one at a time, dont have time to grab them like that. Though I do admit that its pretty cool to have them there.
Unix power FTW:
Using wget to get archive.org content in bulk...from archive.org no less!
http://blog.archive.org/2012/04/26/downloading-in-bulk-using-wget/
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