it's still mostly speculation at this point. but there's a lot of news sites that seem to think a class action would be feesable, some seem to think that less than others, some really lean into it.

Often in such cases some other company will jump in and buy parts (GOG part here) of a failing (presumably CDPSA here) company.

IMO the most likely part to "disappear" first is maybe the forum. Is there some backup for the forum? (Many of the game forums have a lot of good information.)

Internet Archive seems to be a good option, although I'm not sure yet as to how fragile it is against despots' pressure (or from any other powerful figures/organizations), and you need to manually issue each page to be backed up in there.

EDIT: Btw, it has a tool called Wayback Machine to make backing up pages easier, and it's available on Chrome, Firefox and Safari as extensions, and on iOS and Android as apps

So\GOG is the only one who "bent the knee to China" What about Steam, they took the game off there store for the same reason. Yet, no one is screeming, and talking about bycotting Steam. Just GOG is the bad guy here. Only GOG needs to go bankrupt. If you are going to bycott becuse of China, then bycott all the stores(Steam, PS Store, Microsoft and this goes on) becuse all if them have bent the knee to China.

I think GOG is the only one with "We are Rebels" slogans in their company though.
Large part of the uproar is (IMO) not due to GOG doing it but due to GOG cheating on their userbase in terms of their protrayed core values and outright breaking their promises.

I have used it (with mixed success) in the past but unless this works much better than I think its not really the complete automatic backup I would be looking for. Technically it should be easy to write a crawler but I dont know how GOGs server would react to that...

No, they did not. Steam didn't pull the game. The publisher's license was revoked in China.

Then what stopped Steam from getting a license from the pubilsher,or from the devs directly, and sell the game outside of China?

Exactly. Devs / publisher pulled it from Steam. GOG banned it.

Steam is a platform for publishing games, not a publisher. Anyway, what does this have to do with this topic?

I backed up all my Desura games on an external hard drive before it went offline and that drive has since failed. All those games were lost in time, like tears in rain. I've been putting off backing up my collection here because it seems so daunting and costly. All the games I own with their bonus goodies would fill up multiple high capacity hard drives and creating backups of those backups just doesn't seem feasible for me at the moment.

You may want to consider paid cloud storage. It says ~1$/T/month here - but I dont know if thats all and if I am correctly interpreting it: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/
Edit: Data retrieval is a lot more expensive it seems so probably only viable for backup-of-backup-if-all-else-fails-but-you-expect-to-never-need-it kinda.

(And better pack/encrypt it so that it cant be taken down by 'false positives' filtering.)

Well, the very reason I prefer buying games DRM-free is that when the store is no more, I can still keep and play all my games. That is the main reason GOG.com is my favored store, still.

So no, I didn't hesitate buying around 150€ worth of games on this Winter Sale so far, as I know I can download and keep them even if GOG disappears some day.

I've never kept any fallacies that GOG.com, or any digital game store, will be around forever. Not even Steam. Digital stores come and go, some last longer (Steam, and also GOG), some not (Desura, DotEmu etc.). Heck even Microsoft closed its e-book store years ago, if I remember correctly.

So, yeah, DRM-free, baby! (And when I say "baby", I don't mean, like, an actual infant, but I mean it like the way black people use it. Which is more meaningful I think.)

Sorry to hear that, but.. you should really never keep unique data on a single hdd. :\
Btw, how much space do you need? 4TB external drives cost like 90$\100€.
And you won't need a second one for backup as long as Gog is safe.

3126 with a heaping helping of bonus goodies. Some of those are demos, but I reckon that's a lot of terabytes.