Law Prevents British Websites From Being Archived

Posted by timothy on Friday March 5, 2010 @12:03PM from the there-would-be-these-things-called-hard-drives dept.

Lanxon writes "The law that allows the US Internet Archive to collect and preserve websites does not apply to British archivists. In fact, experts from the Archive and many other archivist institutions argue that the only way the millions of Britain's websites could be legally archived is if British law itself was amended, reports Wired in an investigation published today. Currently, archivists have to seek permission from webmasters of every single site before they are able to take snapshots and retain data."

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Re:Scope by JumpDrive · 2010-03-05 12:21 · Score: 3, Interesting

(No, I didn't read the article)
I wouldn't worry about it, politicians don't read the technical details of the laws they pass either.
Think of all those poor Brits who are going to be sued or imprisoned because they have a browser cache.
Save Page As... is illegal? by HalAtWork · 2010-03-05 12:40 · Score: 2, Interesting

So the "Save Page As..." command in the File menu is illegal in Britain?

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