Internet Archives Hold Up in Court

Courts have decided that Internet archives including archive.org the "wayback" machine is admissable as evidence in court.

Magistrate Judge Arlander Keys rejected Polska's assertion of hearsay, holding that the archived copies were not themselves statements susceptible to hearsay exclusion, since they merely showed what Polska had previously posted on its site. He also noted that, since Polska was seeking to suppress evidence of its own previous statements, the snapshots would not be barred even if they were hearsay. Over Polska's objection, Judge Keys accepted an affidavit from an Internet Archive employee as sufficient to authenticate the snapshots for admissibility. more…

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Originally Posted on 7/18/2005 1:49:37 PM
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