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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."
...my girlfriend works somewhere where they tend to keep logs going back the last decade on what sites people visit. I've been unable to find a good proxying bit of software that is opensource so I could run an anonymizer for her.
Basically what I'm looking for is something like anonymizer.com, where she can put in a URL in an HTML form, click "Go", and it will display the site in a frame with a new form in the top frame with the "go" button, that way instead of seeing that she went to yahoo.com they'd see she went to mysite.com/go.php?1293874 or perhaps go.pl?239861.
Does anyone know of any opensource software for that other than PHP-Proxy which doesn't seem to have been updated, ever (and yes, I can do some hacking on my own, but I'd prefer a mature project to save time).
Thanks for the link! I used to play THGTTG on my Commodore 64 :) Playing the game actually got me interested enough to buy the books. I bought a bundle of Infocom games about 10 years ago that had it. There were 20 games on 5 floppy disks (Zork 0 took up almost two whole disks is why there were so many). I still have those backed up, although I haven't played them in years. Good thing they weren't copy protected, eh?