Going dark alone does not very often yield results - even if the right solution comes out getting others up to speed will remove any time gained before easily.

Going dark as a team is a different story.

Was a kangaroo court, is a kangaroo court. And that is what's wrong about this to resolve issues using a CoC. Harassment is of course real, and being a supportive organizations that helps and supports a victim in legal action is a better way to go.

Seems to be about time to apply youtube-dl and create a torrent of the result.

If the archive was available under an appropriate license[0] then it'd be trivial to scrape the site and stick the files on s3. It's even got a bittorrent tracker built in.

I suppose there's no chance of getting it relicensed?

[0] for example, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

There are people on reddit working on that. If you are interested, it would be good to coordinate efforts. /r/archiveteam and /r/datahoarder are the usual hangouts for that sort of project.

Actually, they don't halt it. They just said the current state of the investigation doesn't warrant a search or taking the journalists/bloggers into custody.

The investigation still gives a legal umbrella for extensive wiretapping and similar measures.