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Wayback Archives as a Law Tool

Posted by Zonk on from the time-travel-is-fun dept.

Carl Bialik from the WSJ writes "The Wayback Machine's internet archive and Google's cached pages are becoming indispensable tools for some lawyers, especially specialists in intellectual-property law. Dell has used copies of expired websites to get the domain name DellComputersSuck.com transferred to it, the Wall Street Journal reports. EchoStar used Wayback in a case against a Polish TV company. Playboy checks Wayback to look for infringers of its trademark bunny or other images. And Wayback was even used to discredit a witness and reach a mistrial in a Canada murder case."

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  1. Infinite Loop by kensai · · Score: 4, Funny

    If Google cached pages from the WBM and the WBM archived Google cached pages, wouldn't that cause an infinite loop. j/k

  2. The question is... by cached · · Score: 1, Funny

    Can the wayback archive be used as a tool for showing admins on /. that this article is basically a dupe?

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  3. Re:Proof and Evidence : The 'secret' to wining a c by (A)*(B)!0_- · · Score: 3, Funny
    Thank you Captain Obvious.

  4. Re:Text (Yes) Images (not always) by cybersaga · · Score: 2, Funny

    They seemed to have captured Goatse just fine.

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  5. Re:In Contrast to by fritter · · Score: 4, Funny

    OMG D00D you're totally right! Some lawyers argue for one thing, while others argue for another! I just heard about this case the other week where this lawyer made a case that some guy was guilty of murder, but another lawyer was arguing the EXACT SAME GUY was innocent! I cannot believe they tried to have it both ways! Unlike every other profession in the world, where everyone thinks exactly alike!

    Seriously, how did this get modded "Interesting"?

  6. Re:And this is a big deal why? by Kenja · · Score: 4, Funny

    Your right! We must put a stop to this movable type menace before the serfs use it to spread anti authoritarian pamplets!

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  7. Playboy by floppy+ears · · Score: 4, Funny

    Playboy checks Wayback to look for infringers of its trademark bunny or other images.

    So they're basically just sitting around surfing porn too, eh?

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  8. Someone had to do it by jolande · · Score: 3, Funny

    yuhuhpoiu sauick

  9. logos and other images by notnAP · · Score: 3, Funny

    Playboy checks Wayback to look for infringers of its trademark bunny or other images.

    In a related story, managers at Playboy have taken note of productivity differences between John Salem, who was tasked with finding instances of people illegally using the playboy logo, and Henry Waxman, who has been looking for instances of "other images," but has been observed taking frequent bathroom breaks.

  10. Re:has anyone used this for finding terrorists by gatkinso · · Score: 3, Funny

    I would imagine that pre 9/11/2001 very few web sites mentioned the September 11th attacks...

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  11. Canada murder case? by djKing · · Score: 2, Funny

    They killed Canada! Those bastards!

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