1 Mar
2007
1 Mar
'07
12:05 a.m.
On 1 Mar 2007 at 1:06, Teo Zenios wrote:
I am just saying he (and others) do the work so the
material does not
disappear, how important is where it originated from? If you start
watermarking each page you might obliterate something useful by accident.
Even if it is watermarked people will still try to sell it anyway. I also
worry about the copyright holder using the watermark to go back to the
person who scanned it to cause problems (can happen).
I'm assuming that Al is using a recent court opinion concerning DMCA
and historic preservation of material related to firms and computers
that no longer exist or are no longer manufactured.
But selling the same information seems to cross the line and is no
longer related to preservation, but rather to commerce.
Or so it seems.
But if Al is violating some law by putting this stuff up on
bitsavers, then I agree that he should remove it before someone sues
him.
It's really a shame to watch the web evolve and see material
disappear. Even archive.org doesn't keep everything around.
Cheers,
Chuck