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Originally Posted by bfollowell
Has anyone heard anything about them turning off downloading? I'm assuming they're just turning off their purchasing servers but that the items we've "purchased" should still be available for some time to come, correct?
I'd hate to think we all spent the better part of two days getting all of these old bundles, only to find out that the download servers are going down soon too and we won't have time to download everything.
I'm sure (I hope) that I'm worrying over nothing.
- Byron
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You may know this, but in case you don't. If you go to the "Your Account" link on the top right of Baen's page and then "Order History" it will list all your orders/bundles and you can choose to download an entire bundle in one zip file. I actually grabbed everything that way as I completed my orders. It makes for a quick and dirty download of everything if you're concerned about cloud retention. I just slung them all in dated folders 1002, 1109 etc. to sort out later. I don't trust much of anything to just the cloud.
On those lines I also downloaded the entire Free Library in October sometime, which seems to have amounted to 111 separate books based on my saved folder. I wonder what the official position is regarding further distribution of those books? It seems to be accepted that the free CDs remain freely distributable. Maybe a torrent of the Free Library would also be distributable?