what BS

[Chuck Guzis]

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