Alexa and copyright

[Jason Biggers (hidden)]

On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Greg MacGowan wrote:

> appropriate page as a search engine would. I don't see a difference between
> what Alexa is doing and if I were to copy all the back issues of JAMA and
> sell them at the reference desk. 

I see your infringement issues if Alexa were re-selling/charging web
pages, but Alexa isn't selling, they're storing pages so that you can
access them if the site/network is down or not responsive.  This is a
common practice of AOL to "speed" up your access to a site.