</chapter>
<chapter label="9" id="collectors">
<title>CHAPTER NINE: Collectors</title>
+<indexterm id='idxarchivesdigital1' class='startofrange'>
+ <primary>archives, digital</primary>
+</indexterm>
<para>
In April 1996, millions of <quote>bots</quote>—computer codes designed to
<quote>spider,</quote> or automatically search the Internet and copy content—began
someone's <quote>property.</quote> And the law of property restricts the freedoms
that Kahle and others would exercise.
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxarchivesdigital1' class='endofrange'/>
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</chapter>
<chapter label="10" id="property-i">
free, and for almost 180 years our country consistently protected a
vibrant and rich free culture.
</para>
+<indexterm><primary>archives, digital</primary></indexterm>
<para>
We achieved that free culture because our law respected important
limits on the scope of the interests protected by <quote>property.</quote> The very
remaining
9,873. What would you have to do?
</para>
+<indexterm><primary>archives, digital</primary></indexterm>
<para>
Well, first, you'd have to determine which of the 9,873 books were
still under copyright. That requires going to a library (these data are
<para>
But this situation has now changed.
</para>
+<indexterm id='idxarchivesdigital2' class='startofrange'>
+ <primary>archives, digital</primary>
+</indexterm>
<para>
One crucially important consequence of the emergence of digital
technologies is to enable the archive that Brewster Kahle dreams of.
particular bit of that culture or not—then we can't count on the
commercial market to do our library work for us.
</para>
+<indexterm startref='idxarchivesdigital2' class='endofrange'/>
<para>
I would be the first to agree that it should do as much as it can: We
should rely upon the market as much as possible to spread and enable