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MS Dirty Tricks Archive Trickles Back Online
networkBoy writes with word that The Register is following up its story about the Microsoft dirty tricks archive going offline. It appears that several individuals have the pieces to the puzzle and are looking for hosting resources. From the latter article: "The 3,000 document archive from the Comes antitrust trial, which disappeared from the web abruptly when Microsoft settled the case last week, is beginning to trickle back into view. A week ago the site was placed under password protection, Microsoft withdrew its own account of events, and so-called internet 'archive' archive.org apparently also pulled its mirror."
The people who run archive.org aren't immune from copyright law.
Isn't anything entered into evidence in a civil or criminal proceeding automatically part of the public domain?
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Personally I'd put it on the darknets, Tor and Freenet both have sites dedicated to preserving unpopular/threatened/censored information. I'd imagine that I2P would have similar resources although I'm not personally familiar with it.
While darknet sites aren't reachable by the average computer users, this allows the more technically-minded to repopulate the mainstream net with the content when torrents or public hosts are taken down.
Isn't that the tactic that the Church of Scientology uses to shut up its critics? Using copyright law to prevent critical discussion of their materials?
I don't think that copyright is the issue here, though; court records and submitted evidence wouldn't be covered by that, if I understand correctly.