[thelist] Re: [site rippers? - conclusion]
McCreath_David
McCreath_David at xmail.asd.k12.ak.us
Tue Apr 10 19:22:42 CDT 2001
>From: matt newell
>
>one major reason is for archival purposes.
[...]
>another major reason (in my case right now):
>we've ended a relationship with a current client, handed off the proper
>items and generally washed our hands of them.
Erm... Matt, isn't this a massive copyright violation? Does your contract
with these clients allow you to load and run their entire site locally?
Especially now that the contract has ended? As for former employers, I would
think that you'd also want to check your contract for intellectual property
clauses.
>the portion of the site we developed was only a small piece of
>the whole puzzle -- we wanted to show the whole puzzle, but didn't
>have access to their servers to dl a whole copy easily.
Do you have permission to copy the code that other contractors wrote?
>not having access to another companies servers /is/ common, as
So they can protect their intellectual property, right?
>the other major reason i can think of would be general offline
>browsing .. online books/long reports/presentations/etc. make
>for a nice read in the park when you dont have a net connection
>to view them on demand.
That is much more defensible and I think in the spirit of the ripper's
intended use.
I don't have any legal background or anything, I'm just checking.
David
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