points by londons_explore 14 hours ago | 0 comments
Crawling and storing a complete copy of the internet is rather expensive. But a thing worth doing if there is benefit now or in the future to the people of the UK (who are paying the bill).
Yet by restricting to physical access in one room, most likely very few people benefit and I wonder if it is good value for money for the taxpayer.
[–] Normal_gaussian 14 hours ago
[–] Normal_gaussian 14 hours ago
Sorry, my point being performing the archiving is the thing that must happen now or it is 'lost' forever.
Not providing wider access can be changed at any point in the future, so it is only 'lost' now.
Having the thing at all is valuable. The legislation provides a very limited exemption to IP law to allow archiving. Future legislators can work out how to loosen restrictions if its valuable to do so.