Why not ask the forum manager for a copy for your own personal use?
You'll have to ask him permission to copy the contents anyway. He's having the copyright (= right to copy), you don't have that currently, I assume. Did you check there TOS already?
Kees
Long story short; a forum that I frequent seems to be in a phase of neglect/death due to admin from the forums disappearing and the wealth of information in the posts on the forums are something I really want to keep in case they decide to pull the plug on the whole thing in the near future.
I've attempted to back up the forum using programs such as HTTrack and Inspyder but due to living in a remote area my high speed internet is less than fast at the best of times and the size of the forum would take me a few months to download.
Ideally I'd like to find a service that would (probably for a fee) download the entirety of the forum and all the associated images and content in the postings and then send me a hard drive of the entire thing.
Anyone know of such a service?

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