Topic drift (archive robot, copyright...)
Nick Arnett (narnett@verity.com)
Fri, 20 Sep 1996 10:41:18 -0700
At 11:04 AM 9/20/96, Jeremy Sigmon wrote:
>> Ahh, but when I tape a show it doesn't have the possibility of adversely
>>affecting my neighbor's picture quality. ;-)
>> Cheers,
>> Eric
>
>Very good point. If you grabbed 100 or so pages from a site during its
>slow period then it wouldn't be so bad. But you would need the site to
>provide connection statistics to give you that.
It may be a good point, but it has nothing to do with this discussion (and
it's a rather old, tired point that either is settled or never will be).
The Internet Archive robot, just like any other individual robot, won't
have any noticeable impact on net traffic. Even if it did, copyright has
nothing to do with this aspect of the technology.
Nick