alt Hacker NewsDigital copies will also work I don’t understand why they just don’t save both the URL and the content at the URL when last checked.
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trollbridge • yesterday at 7:43 PM
What if the TOS expressly prohibits archiving it, and it's also copyrighted?
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I think maybe because the contents of the URL archived locally aren't legally certifiable as genuine - the URL is the canonical source.
That's actually a potentially good business idea - a legally certifiable archiving software that captures the content at a URL and signs it digitally at the moment of capture. Such a service may become a business requirement as Internet archivability continues to decline.