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Just Offscreen
Jun 29, 2006

We must hope that our current selves will one day step aside to make room for better versions of us.
" plus some personal stuff - photos, music, etc." - This is the bit that concerns me.

Regardless of which route you take- backup only the stuff you might upload to a second HDD somewhere, and wipe the laptop. You can spend all day wringing your hands about uploading the comic or whatever, but it sounds like a ton of non related material is on there as well that you frankly have no business rooting around in. Was the laptop even password protected at all?

Pull the comic to a secondary source and wipe it.

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Just Offscreen
Jun 29, 2006

We must hope that our current selves will one day step aside to make room for better versions of us.

dordreff posted:

It is illegal and immoral to rehost someone's work against their very clear wishes.

I guess I can see the illegal, but immoral? All I want to do is read a free webcomic for free, which is exactly what I was doing before the author had a mental breakdown and vanished before I could even possibly pay them for their work.

Just Offscreen fucked around with this message at 00:13 on Jan 14, 2017

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