Comments below: "Bunz, Ulla K" wrote:
them into all eternity. So, theoretically, I could point people to my local server address and ask them to look at the sites there (at least until I change university affiliation this summer, and who knows whether I'll "pack" these digital belongings and take them with me). And the original sites may have changed since I downloaded them! By definition, websites are dynamic documents. A screen shot or printout is just a momentary, Polaroid-like memorabilia. And in a way, so are my downloaded sites.
This raises a host of interesting copyright questions. Archiving a website for research purposes is probably not a violation. Redistributing reprints of it, without the original author's/poster's permission, is. Mirroring it locally, without permission, is. In this day and age, even "deep linking" can be considered copyright infringement. Gives one pause for a moment... --JW