(ANSA) - NEW YORK, July 27 - 'scripta manent' said the Latins, and applies to the Internet. Who thought that the web was the means of communication 'and without volatile memory must' think again.
Through software that you download from the site 'Wayback Machine' you can 'fish out of a large digital archive public 'Archive.com,' a quantity 'of unimaginable parts: text, audio, video, and especially many web pages that we thought had' expired 'and therefore lost forever.
The same service also offers the Google with its 'Google Cache' (cache 'a term used in computing to describe a place in the network where information is stored albeit temporary), but the quantity' of pages and found 'much lower. Since
'Archive' has activated this service have been made about 40 billion copies of old web pages using a program that automatically runs through the whole network, as did the scribes in medieval libraries, copy documents that way ', will no longer' lost.
addition to the historical value and curiosity 'stimulated by a mega store from which to fish out the first versions of' Yahoo! ' scarnissima homepage or the first of 'Amazon', the value of this digital archive have discovered the U.S. lawyers who specialize in property 'rights.
It seems that in some American law firms is now common to ask whether we can do a 'Wayback' on a certain reality to a matter in due course. Research in the virtual past, sometimes richioso of certain companies or personality 'and' become a real standard practice during certain processes.
For example, the 'Playboy Enterprise', one of the bunnies and magazines for men only,''uses this system about once every two months,''said Anamaria Cashman, general counsel for the 'intellectual of the famous magazine.
''We are very careful that the websites do not make use of our bunny or other images (those of playmate) even if the information has been removed and are no longer 'visible on the fly,''the lawyer added.
The question of the stolen domain and 'has often been resolved with the use of Wayback. It happens in fact that home users, usually with the intent to defraud, making use of a name important to internal documents and then Offir various commercial services. Or that if someone opens a site with a famous name and obligations then the rightful owner of the name ricomprarselo, extorting large numbers.
One of the first big names to use 'Wayback' in a process' was Vodafone, the British phone giant, in 2001, the year of initiation of Wayback, won a lawsuit against an individual who was used as the name of your site its 'Vodafone'. The phone giant
accuse 'the person-a woman-you are using the Vodafone name to attract novice users and use the site for commercial purposes.
The woman defended herself by saying that his site was made just to give instructions to those inexperienced web surfers. With a meta-search the archives discharge 'that the lady wanted to attract only if' potential buyers.
Vodafone won the case without any problems, recovering the internet domain, which has now become the official website of one of the most 'big phone companies in the world. (ANSA).
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