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Law Prevents British Websites From Being Archived
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."
Just read it. Very good. Completely applicable and even specifically mentions works on the internet.
Non-story. /thread.
God... people are DUMB...
How do you, and those who made that “law” think that page gets onto your screen?
By storing an copying it! In your network chip’s cache. In your CPU’s cache. In your RAM. On your hard disk (browser cache!). In your graphics RAM. On your screen. In your brain. And in ever place that you talk to, about it.
Information that can not be copied, can not be proven to exist (to anyone outside of those already holding it). Simple as that.
Why do people such a hard time, getting this? It is because they think that meatspace and bitspace have 100% equal rules?
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.