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"Magistrate Judge Arlander Keys, in the Northern District of Illinois, ruled that ‘snapshots’ taken by the Internet Archive that depict web pages as they appeared in the past are admissible under the Federal Rules of Evidence.

"The court rejected the arguments of plaintiff Telewizja Polska USA that the archived pages constituted hearsay and that the Internet Archive was an ‘unreliable source.’

"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."

No author. Internet Archive’s Web Page Snapshots Held Admissible as Evidence.
Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society. Vol 2, No.3.

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