now I've heard everything… Wayback Machine is being sued
The Wayback Machine is being sued because their archives were used in a lawsuit against someone… I think.
Excerpt from the article, Keeper of Expired Web Pages Is Sued Because Archive Was Used in Another Suit:
…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.
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The Internet Archive uses Web-crawling “bot” programs to make copies of publicly accessible sites on a periodic, automated basis. Those copies are then stored on the archive’s servers for later recall using the Wayback Machine.
The archive’s repository now has approximately one petabyte – roughly one million gigabytes – worth of historical Web site content, much of which would have been lost as Web site owners deleted, changed and otherwise updated their sites.
I found this story via LibrarianInBlack, whose comment is “Truth and accurate representations of past information are bad, apparently.” Yep.
