Posted by Peter 'Rattacresh' Backes on December 23, 2000 at 08:26:42: In Reply to: Re: Martin's pages posted by Savant on December 22, 2000 at 20:36:52:
It is absolutely NOT considered bad netiquette to copy entire
sites. I've been around for about eleven years in the Internet
scene now and ftp mirrors, archives and private copies of data
have already been common when I joined it.
Copying the intire site is not as bad as it seems to be. As I
would watch anything anyway, it's better to download the whole
thing once than to watch it today once and tomorrow again.
400+ MB surely wouldn't fit into the browser cache.
If you are referring to copyright and intellectual property
("Please only watch the page, but don't copy it!!"): That's not
the spirit of the Internet and surely wasn't Martin's intention.
IMHO that is Internet abuse by the movie/music companies.
Private backup copies are legal anyway, at least in Germany, period.
BTW, I generally don't 'just download', I try to
find out first whether the ISP the site is hosted at has a
traffic flat rate or not. But to ask anybody to download his
site is unacceptable. If you don't want your page to be downloaded,
just don't publish it on the Internet.