Archiving Web Pages - Legal or Illegal?

Dyer asks: "I used to run several high-trafficked anonymous surfing sites and if I wasn't getting emailed by a lawyer telling me to block someone's site from being accessed I was being woken up at 2am with a telephone call from a crazy person yelling, sometimes swearing at me with the impression that my site copied theirs and it resided on my server, when in actuality it was being accessed by my server at that instant and being relayed to the user. This is my point, how do services like Archive.org and Google's cache get away with what they're doing? You can call their services whatever you like, but it doesn't change the fact that they are copying people's websites and saving them onto their servers for everyone to access."

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Re:RTFF

[Lord Bitman]

"with all the markings", yeah, I love that. Yet another idiot who thinks they can make copies of and distribute an author's work provided they tell others that they are doing so illegally. GOOD ONE.
"But they're giving it for free anyway!" how the fuck is that remotely relevant? And how the fuck, just to let the question be raised, do you know that they are publishing on a "public" network? How fucking infeasable would to be to send only to IP addresses which they wanted to? Not at fucking all? Whoopy! I guess you're full of shit.