Dumpster diving on the Web
Katharine Mieszkowski,
Salon,
Nov 09, 2001
Discussion of the Wayback Machine, a service that copies and archives 'snapshots' of the World Wide Web. The existence of such service - and also Google's caching service - raises the question of the implication of copyright and especially subscription based sites. Will they be simply omitted from the historical record? Or will the archiving services provide a useful way to avoid paying for articles. As the autor comments, "The Internet Archive Wayback Machine may be ready to take us on a mind-blowing sojourn into the digital past, but it may have less success delivering us to a less litigious future.CRLF"
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