gigamatic

no, not the radio show... the internet site.

(via slashdot)

"The Internet archive, which has been storing snapshots of millions of webpages since 1996 has been sued by the firm Harding Earley Follmer & Frailey, Philadelphia. The firm was defending Health Advocate, a company in suburban Philadelphia that helps patients resolve health care and insurance disputes, against a trademark action brought by a similarly named competitor. In preparing the case, representatives of Earley Follmer used the Wayback Machine to turn up old Web pages - some dating to 1999 - originally posted by the plaintiff, Healthcare Advocates of Philadelphia. Last week Healthcare Advocates sued both the Harding Earley firm and the Internet Archive, saying the access to its old Web pages, stored in the Internet Archive's database, was unauthorized and illegal.

Um. I'm of two minds over this... the stronger part of me says "you put this out on the Internet, it's now public record (because were foolish enough not to put a robots.txt or other hinderances to spidering in front of it) and the web archive is doing exactly what it was designed to do as a service to society, much like museums, etc" and the other (softer) part of me says "my content is my own"

but if i'm not smart enough or too lazy to implement strategies to keep my documents from being searched, cached, or archived, it's really my fault. next some bastard will sue google for caching copies of their web pages.