In Canada: Cache a page, go to jail?

bill 'could make it illegal for search engines to cache Web pages'

[walkman]

[news.com.com...]
"But according to Howard Knopf, a copyright attorney at the Ottawa firm of Macera & Jarzyna, a brief passage in the bill could mean trouble for search engines and other companies that archive or cache Web content."

"Michael Geist, a law professor at the University of Ottawa, where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-Commerce Law, agreed."

[goodroi]

This should be interesting to see how it develops, also if it will impact scraper sites.

[balam]

"The public as a whole loses if we lose the ability to see what's being made available online." - Wendy Seltzer, founder of the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse

Sounds as if the sky is falling, but that's the usual chilling effect of FUD.

[AreŚCouldŚWill] we lose the ability to find what's available online? No. [AreŚCouldŚWill] we lose the ability to view old - possibly out-dated, incorrect, libelous or worse - data? Quite possibly.

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