Wayback Archives as a Law Tool

Posted by Zonk on Friday July 29, 2005 @05:28AM 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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School by imboboage0 · 2005-07-29 05:31 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Personally, I use it as a proxy to get past the school's firewall. Stupid admins can't keep me out!

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Put another way... by HardCase · 2005-07-29 06:00 · Score: 0, Offtopic

The childish nature of SilentShriek is ridiculous. Looking through archives of up to nine years just to point out: "Hey, you said I'm a child rapist!" Who cares.

If SilentShriek was not a child rapist, he would not have to be so defensive.