[d@DCC] Copyright Notice... for "Captain Copyright" site...

[Russell McOrmond]

mskala at ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Russell McOrmond wrote:
> 
>>Reading the Copyright notice at:
>>http://www.captaincopyright.ca/Ipnotice.aspx
>>
>>   I am curious if you have given thought to either search engines such
>>as Google or Archive.org in relation to the content on your site.
> 
> FWIW, they don't seem to have a robots.txt file in place.

   They don't have a valid page that conforms to the robots.txt format 
documented at http://www.robotstxt.org/ and the W3C, but the page at 
http://www.captaincopyright.ca/robots.txt is quite informative of their 
lack of understanding of the subject matter they are attempting to "teach".


"Access Copyright
Web Server Security Alert

This website uses a special security software that monitors suspicious 
network traffic and behavior. If you feel that you have caused this 
security error unintentionally, please contact the website administrator 
at the address below and be sure to include the reference ID in your 
message.

Email contact: itadmin at accesscopyright.ca
Reference ID:  20060606009377"


   Lacking this file it is quite legitimate to assume (and courts will 
likely fully agree if anyone attempts to sue) that all documents on the 
site are pre-authorized to have verbatim non-commercial archives made.

   While the site is still too new to show up in the search engines or 
archives, the entire site contents will be available at:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/captaincopyright.ca/*

This is the same as:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/accesscopyright.ca/*

   Where the robots.txt file doesn't disallow anyone given the mistakes 
they made in the format of their exclusion (They 'might' have meant to 
say "Disallow: /", but the file as authored excludes nothing).

http://accesscopyright.ca/robots.txt


   I am copying this message to "itadmin at accesscopyright.ca", although I 
don't expect their IT administrators (if they actually have any) to have 
actually set up such an address.

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