The Law Embraces the Internet Archive

By jbat - November 19, 2004

As Cory points out over on BoingBoing, it was only a matter of time. This does point to the beginning of the web as digital memory for our ongoing culture.

http://www.stapleton-gray.com Ross Stapleton-Gray

I don’t see why some legal services firm hasn’t already gotten into the business of providing Web page authentication, e.g., allowing me to “snapshot” a given site at a given time, to produce a court-ready evidentiary document. Obviously the virtue of the Archive is that it snarfs up tons of stuff you’ll never know in advance you’ll need; perhaps there’s a business opportunity for Brewster, to allow for companies to pay him for a greater focus on potential targets of concern.

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