RE: The Internet Archive robot

Nick Arnett (narnett@verity.com)
Thu, 19 Sep 1996 10:18:16 -0700


At 11:38 AM 9/14/96, Denis McKeon wrote:

>Does "whacking" a site reach beyond fair use? Is there a difference
>between whacking a few hundred pages overnight so you can speed-browse
>them the next day, erasing the copies afterward, and whacking the top
>100 pages you like to use in demos onto your laptop so you can do
>demonstrate a new Web browser without using a network conection?

I think this comparable to recording a television show or movie so that you
can watch it later (which is legal, although recording to create your own
library is not).

Nick