AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION, INC. et al v. PUBLIC.RESOURCE.ORG, INC.
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MOTION for Summary Judgment , MOTION for Permanent Injunction by AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION, INC., AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, INC., NATIONAL COUNCIL ON MEASUREMENT IN EDUCATION, INC. (Attachments: # 1 Memorandum in Support, # 2 Statement of Facts, # 3 Declaration Hutter Decl., # 4 Exhibit 1, # 5 Exhibit 2, # 6 Exhibit 3, # 7 Exhibit 4, # 8 Declaration Hudis Decl., # 9 Exhibit A, # 10 Exhibit B, # 11 Exhibit C, # 12 Exhibit T, # 13 Exhibit U, # 14 Exhibit Z, # 15 Exhibit BB, # 16 Exhibit CC, # 17 Exhibit EE, # 18 Exhibit GG, # 19 Exhibit HH, # 20 Exhibit II, # 21 Exhibit JJ, # 22 Exhibit KK, # 23 Exhibit LL, # 24 Exhibit MM, # 25 Declaration Ernesto Decl., # 26 Exhibit NN, # 27 Exhibit OO, # 28 Exhibit PP, # 29 Exhibit QQ, # 30 Exhibit RR, # 31 Exhibit SS, # 32 Exhibit TT, # 33 Exhibit UU, # 34 Declaration Wise Decl., # 35 Exhibit KKK, # 36 Exhibit LLL, # 37 Declaration Camara Decl., # 38 Exhibit MMM, # 39 Declaration Levine Decl., # 40 Exhibit NNN, # 41 Exhibit PPP, # 42 Exhibit QQQ, # 43 Exhibit UUU, # 44 Declaration Geisinger Decl., # 45 Declaration Schneider Decl., # 46 Exhibit Levine Depo Tr., # 47 Exhibit No. 1207 to Levine Depo Tr., # 48 Exhibit No. 1308 to Levine Depo Tr., # 49 No. 1308 to Levine Depo Tr., # 50 Text of Proposed Order)(Elgarten, Clifton)
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
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for the
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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
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AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL
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RESEARCH ASSOC., INC.,
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et al.
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Plaintiffs
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v.
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Civil Action No.:
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PUBLIC.RESOURCE.ORG, INC.,
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Defendant.
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San Francisco, California
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Tuesday, December 2, 2014
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Videotaped deposition of CHRISTOPHER BUTLER,
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a witness herein, called for examination by counsel
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for Plaintiffs in the above-entitled matter, the
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witness having been by me first duly sworn, taken
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at the offices of Harvey Siskind, LLP, Four
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Embarcadero Center, 39th Floor, San Francisco,
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California at 9:10 a.m., on Tuesday, December 2,
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2014, and the proceedings being taken down by
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Stenotype by CINDY TUGAW, RPR, CSR and transcribed
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under her direction.
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APPEARANCES:
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On behalf of the Plaintiffs:
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JONATHAN HUDIS, ESQ.
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OBLON, SPIVAK, McCLELLAND, MAIER &
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NEUSTADT, LLP
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1940 Duke Street
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Alexandria, Virginia
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(703) 413-3000
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On behalf of the Defendant:
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KATHLEEN LU, ESQ.
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Fenwick & West, LLP
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555 California Street, 12th Floor
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San Francisco, California
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(415) 875-2300
94104
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On behalf of the Witness
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STEPHANIE D. AHMAD, ESQ.
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Greenberg Traurig, LLP
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Four Embarcadero Center, Suite 3000
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San Francisco, California
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(415) 655-1303
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ALSO PRESENT:
Sean McGrath, Video Operator
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C O N T E N T S
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THE WITNESS
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CHRISTOPHER BUTLER
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Examination by Mr. Hudis
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E X H I B I T S
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EXHIBIT NO.
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Exhibit 1
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Subpoena to Testify at a
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Deposition in a Civil Action
Exhibit 2
Subpoena to Produce Documents,
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Information, or Objects or to Permit
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Inspection of Premises in a Civil Action
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Exhibit 3
Internet Archive Bios
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Exhibit 4
Internet Archive About IA
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Exhibit 5
Terms of Use 10 March 2001
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Exhibit 6
Web pages for AERA57
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Exhibit 7
Item History for
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gov.law.aera.standards.1999
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Exhibit 8
30 pages of task logs
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Exhibit 9
Log for task 315793300
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Exhibit 10
Internet Archive Error
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Exhibit 11
Mac Terminal screen capture page
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Exhibit 12
12/19/2013 E-mail from Carl Malamud
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to Christopher Butler with attachments
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VIDEO OPERATOR:
Good morning.
We're on
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the video record, ladies and gentlemen, at 9:10
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a.m.
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Reporting in Washington, DC.
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(202) 289-2260.
I am Sean McGrath from Alderson Court
The phone number is
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This is a matter pending before the United
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States District Court for the District of Columbia,
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in the case captioned, American Educational
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Research Association, Incorporated, et al., versus
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Public.Resource.Org, Inc., Case No.
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1:14-cv-00857-TSC.
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This is the beginning of disk 1, volume 1
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of the deposition of Chris Butler on December 2nd,
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2014.
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San Francisco, California.
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of the plaintiffs.
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We're located at Four Embarcadero Center,
This is taken on behalf
Counsel, would you please identify
yourselves, starting with the questioning attorney.
MR. HUDIS:
Jonathan Hudis, representing
plaintiffs.
MS.LU:
Kathleen Lu, Fenwick & West, for
defendant Public Resource.
MS. AHMAD:
Stephanie Ahmad, Greenberg
Traurig, for non-party Internet Archive.
VIDEO OPERATOR:
Will the court reporter
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please swear in the witness and then you can
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proceed.
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CHRISTOPHER BUTLER,
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being first duly affirmed by the Certified
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Shorthand Reporter to tell the truth, the whole
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truth, and nothing but the truth, testified as
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follows:
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EXAMINATION BY MR. HUDIS
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MR. HUDIS:
Q.
Sir, if I could have your full name and
address for the record.
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Christopher Scott Butler.
And my address
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is 152 Caine Avenue, Caine is spelled C-a-i-n-e, in
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San Francisco, California 94112.
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Q.
Mr. Butler, have you been deposed before?
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Yes.
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Q.
In what kinds of matters?
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A.
In matters relating to archived records of
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websites that Internet Archive has preserved and
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maintained on its site.
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party.
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Q.
I was deposed as a third
And how many such times have you been
deposed in that capacity?
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A.
If I remember correctly, it's five times.
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Q.
Other than those five times being deposed
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follow up with any necessary communication
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thereafter.
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Q.
And so if a take-down request meets
certain criteria, what criteria would that be?
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MS. LU:
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MR. HUDIS:
Objection as to relevance.
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Q.
You may answer.
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Sure.
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I hadn't understood that the scope
of the subpoena would include this information.
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but there can be take-down requests on -- on
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various grounds, so the criteria would be specific
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to -- to sometimes even the particular case, but
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the most basic example is a complaint of -- of
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copyright infringement brought to our attention on
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the site.
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And we would ask for a take-down notice
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with the standard information requested as outlined
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in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
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meets that criteria, we will typically take down
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the item, notify both the uploading party and the
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requesting party.
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Q.
And if it
And what about your being the point of
contact for information requests from attorneys?
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MS. LU:
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MR. HUDIS:
Objection as to relevance.
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Q.
You may answer.
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A.
The most common example of that is an
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attorney who is interested in using archived
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material from our web archive in one of their cases
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and would like to have those records authenticated
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by Internet Archive.
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Q.
And as point of contact, you were also
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part of Internet Archive's compliance with document
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subpoenas such as the one we served on Internet
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Archive?
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A.
That's correct.
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Q.
Have you told me all of your
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responsibilities as office manager for Internet
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Archive?
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Yes.
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MR. HUDIS:
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VIDEO OPERATOR:
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Off the record.
The time is 9:51 a.m.,
and we are off the record.
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(Discussion off the record.)
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VIDEO OPERATOR:
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The time is 9:52 a.m.,
and we are on the record.
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(Plaintiffs' Exhibit 4 marked for
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identification.)
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MR. HUDIS:
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Q.
Mr. Butler, what is the Internet Archive?
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A.
Internet Archive is a nonprofit
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organization.
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digital library online at our website, archive.org.
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We preserve many types of media and make much of
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that media available in digital format via our
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website, archive.org, and also openlibrary.org.
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Q.
We are attempting to maintain a
Mr. Butler, do you recognize what I now
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have marked as deposition Exhibit 4 as a portion of
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Internet Archive's website?
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Yes.
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Q.
And it's the About page?
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Yes.
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Q.
And the first paragraph up at the top
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right beneath "About the Internet Archive," it
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says, "The Internet Archive is a 501(c) non-profit
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that was founded to build an Internet library.
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purposes include offering permanent access for
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researchers, historians, scholars, people with
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disabilities, and the general public to historical
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collections that exist in digital format.
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Do you see that?
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A.
Yes.
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Q.
Is that an accurate description of
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Internet Archive's mission and business?
A.
Yes.
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Q.
And it says below that, in the end of the
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second paragraph, "the Internet Archive includes
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text, audio, moving pictures" -- "moving images,
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and software as well as archived web pages in our
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collections."
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Do you see that?
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A.
Yes.
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Q.
And that's a part of the business of
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Internet Archive?
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Yes.
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Q.
All right.
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of Exhibit 4, please.
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If you would go to Page 5 of 5
exhibit.
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It's the last page of the
Do you see the descriptive text under
where it says, "Storage"?
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Yes.
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Q.
And it says, "Storing the Archive's
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collections involves parsing, indexing, and
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physically encoding the data.
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collections growing at exponential rates, this task
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poses an ongoing challenge."
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With the Internet
Is this part of the business of Internet
Archive storage as it's described here?
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Yes.
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Q.
And then immediately below that, there is
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a descriptive text under the title, "Preservation,"
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do you see that?
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Yes.
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Q.
And it says there, "Preservation is the
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ongoing test of permanently protecting stored
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resources from damage or destruction.
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issues are guarding against the consequences of
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accidents and data degradation and maintaining the
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accessibility of data as formats become obsolete."
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The main
Is that part of the mission and business
of Internet Archive?
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Yes.
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Q.
Mr. Butler, what is an Internet library?
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From our standpoint, as I understand
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Internet library, it would be an organization that
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offers library services, including access to -- to
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the types of resources on Internet Archive texts,
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movies, audio, software, information and artwork
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and literature and scientific data.
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available for the public benefit.
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Q.
It makes it
Have you completely described what you
believe to be an Internet library?
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That's -- that's my definition in a
nutshell.
Q.
At the Internet Archive, what is a
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collection?
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A collection is roughly defined as a set
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of posted items.
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page beginning with archive.org/details and ending
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in an identifier.
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type such as text, movie, audio.
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could be uploaded to that page.
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assigned a title.
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submitted by the uploader of the item.
An item would be defined as a
It would be assigned a media
Multiple files
It would be
And perhaps other metadata
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A collection would be a list of items that
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is associated with a separate landing page, its own
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summary page where a visitor could -- can see
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summary information about that list of items.
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often organized around a theme.
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It's
Some of the functions of a collection
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include being able to search within just that list
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of items, being able to sort those items, for
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example, sorting them by title, alphabetically or
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by author.
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A collection is generally set up for any
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archive.com user who contacts Internet Archive.
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And generally we ask that they have uploaded
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50 items to the site already that we can then form
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into a collection and assign a collection page.
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Q.
Have you described the entirety of what
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you believe is a collection?
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MS. LU:
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MR. HUDIS:
Objection, argumentative.
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Q.
Did you leave anything out?
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I don't think of anything offhand.
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How does Internet Archive build an
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Internet library?
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Through multiple ways.
Our web archive is
collected both by Internet Archive and by outside
organizations that donate data to Internet Archive.
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Q.
Let's take that separately.
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Okay.
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What part of building Internet Archive's
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library is done by Internet Archive itself?
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Much of the web archive is -- is crawled
and collected by Internet Archive directly.
Q.
So that we have a good record, what do you
mean by "crawled and collected"?
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I mean that automated programs operated by
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Internet Archive visit web pages and store web
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files that are transmitted to Internet Archive by
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the web servers that they visit.
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is then processed in such a way that it's rendered
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searchable and browseable by visitors to the
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website.
That information
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Q.
And the searchable and browseable
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functions, that's done by Internet Archive's web
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engineers?
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Correct.
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Q.
And I believe the other way you said that
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Internet Archive builds Internet library is by
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donations of content by outside organizations?
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A.
Correct.
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Q.
How does that work?
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So in the instance of the web archive
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organizations, the biggest one of which is Alexa
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Internet, who regularly perform web crawling, would
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donate bulk data of historical web files to
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Internet Archive to be incorporated into the
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Wayback Machine.
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Q.
donate content to the Internet Archive?
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MS. LU:
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Objection, misstates prior
testimony.
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And are there other organizations that
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
Are there any other organizations that
donate content to the Internet Archive?
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Yes.
So private individuals and
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institutions may establish a user account with
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archive.org and post material in the movies, texts,
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audio and software collections.
Q.
How many individuals or organizations have
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established user accounts for uploading purposes to
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Internet Archive?
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of thousands?
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At a minimum, thousands, perhaps tens of
thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands.
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Tens, hundreds, thousands, tens
MS. LU:
I'll object that this is outside
the scope of the deposition topics.
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MR. HUDIS:
I would disagree, Counsel.
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Q.
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answer?
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I am.
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Q.
Have you described all the ways that
You may go.
Are you finished with your
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Internet Archive builds its collections or builds
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its libraries, to be correct?
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Internet Archive may also digitize text
materials or other materials.
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Q.
Is this printed text materials?
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Yes.
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Q.
You may go on.
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Yes.
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Typically, those are supplied by
libraries and state agencies.
Q.
So the three ways that Internet Archive
can build a library is Internet Archive's own
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crawling and archiving, donations by outside
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organizations, and digitization of text materials
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donated by libraries and state agencies, correct?
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MS. LU:
Objection, misstates prior
testimony.
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MR. HUDIS:
I disagree.
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Q.
Go on.
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I would also add that private individuals
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You may answer.
can digitize materials themselves and upload them
to our service.
Q.
Have you told me all the different ways
that Internet Archive can build its libraries?
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Again, I think that's -- that's a fair
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nutshell description.
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specific to add.
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Q.
So we have some definitions of terms, what
does it mean to post content to a website?
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I don't think of anything
MS. LU:
Objection to the extent it calls
for expert testimony.
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MR. HUDIS:
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Q.
Do you understand the question?
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A.
Yes.
In the basic sense, I understand it
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to -- to be something that an individual or an
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automated program does to -- to transmit content to
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a website.
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Q.
Is that otherwise known as uploading?
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I think that the two terms are used
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interchangeably a lot.
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MS. AHMAD:
Can we take a break?
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MR. HUDIS:
Yes.
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VIDEO OPERATOR:
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The time is 10:04 a.m.,
and we are off the record.
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(Brief recess.)
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VIDEO OPERATOR:
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and we are on the record.
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The time is 10:11 a.m.,
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
Mr. Butler, just so we have a frame of
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reference, individuals not employed by Internet
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Archive are allowed to post content to Internet
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Archive's website?
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A.
That's correct.
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Q.
And I believe we discussed people who have
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such posting or uploading access could be anywhere
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in the thousands to hundreds of thousands?
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A.
Correct.
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Q.
And why are these nonemployee individuals
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allowed to post content to Internet Archive's
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website?
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MS. AHMAD:
Objection, outside the scope
of the deposition topics.
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MR. HUDIS:
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Q.
You may answer.
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A.
One of the reasons why is to enable
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sharing of information and to -- to expand the
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amount of materials that's available for public use
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and sharing at archive.org.
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MR. HUDIS:
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VIDEO OPERATOR:
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Off the record.
The time is 10:12 a.m.,
and we are off the record.
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(Discussion off the record.)
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(Plaintiffs' Exhibit 5 marked for
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identification.)
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VIDEO OPERATOR:
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The time is 10:13 a.m.
We are on the record.
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MR. HUDIS:
We've now marked as Exhibit 5
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a document which says at the top, "Terms of Use
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10 March 2001," bearing production numbers IA-AERA
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38 through 40.
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Counsel for Internet Archive, can you
stipulate this is a business record of your client?
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MS. AHMAD:
Yes.
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MR. HUDIS:
Any objections, Ms. Lu?
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MS. LU:
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MR. HUDIS:
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Q.
No objection.
Mr. Butler, do you recognize this document
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of Exhibit 5?
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Yes.
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Q.
What is it?
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A.
This is the Internet Archive's terms of
Q.
And to what activity associated with
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use.
Internet Archive are these terms of use applied?
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MS. LU:
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MR. HUDIS:
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Q.
Objection, vague and ambiguous.
You may answer if you understand the
question.
A.
Use of the website both by individuals who
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establish an account and also by users who visit
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the website without establishing an account.
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Q.
So if I understand your answer, and if I'm
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wrong, correct me, if I'm an individual or an
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outside organization, not employed with Internet
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Archive, who wants to post content to Internet
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Archive's website, I would have to comply with
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these terms of use, is that correct?
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A.
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MS. LU:
Objection, misstates prior
testimony.
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Yes.
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
You may answer.
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and location structure of materials posted to its
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website by submitters?
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MS. LU:
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THE WITNESS:
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Can you reread the question,
please?
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Objection, vague and ambiguous.
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
Does Internet Archive control the URL name
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or location structure of materials posted to
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Internet Archive's website by submitters?
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MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
MS. AHMAD:
Objection, vague as to
"control."
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
I'll give you an example
of what I mean.
In our subpoena of Exhibit 1, deposition
17
subpoena, Exhibit A-1 to deposition Exhibit 1, has
18
a URL associated with the posting of the
19
1999 standards to Internet Archive's website and it
20
reads as follows --
21
MS. LU:
22
I'm afraid this might be a little
23
24
25
What page are you on, Jonathan?
confusing for the record.
MR. HUDIS:
the record:
And I will read the URL into
https://archive.org/details/gov.law.
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2
aera.standards.1999."
Q.
Mr. Butler, when the material posted to
3
Internet Archive's website on Exhibit A-1 of
4
deposition Exhibit 1 was put there, who created the
5
name of this URL at the bottom left-hand corner?
6
7
MS. LU:
and lack of personal knowledge.
8
9
Objection, vague and ambiguous
THE WITNESS:
The prefix
"archive.org/details" is the default URL prefix
10
assigned by the archive.org website.
The following
11
text is what we call the identifier.
That is
12
something that is submitted by the submitter.
13
14
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
Mr. Butler, to the best of your knowledge,
15
what is Public.Resource.Org, Inc., which I will
16
refer to for the rest of this deposition as Public
17
Resource?
18
19
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
20
MR. HUDIS:
21
Q.
You may answer to the extent you know.
22
A.
What I know about Public.Resource.Org is
23
that it makes available government documents to the
24
public, and that's part of its mission.
25
Q.
And how do you know about Public Resource?
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2
3
4
A.
I know about Public.Resource.Org through
their posting of material on archive.org.
Q.
That's the other name of Internet
Archive's website?
5
A.
That's correct.
6
Q.
What else, if anything, do you know about
7
Public Resource?
8
9
MS. AHMAD:
ambiguous.
10
11
Objection, vague and
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
Other than its posting of what you call
12
government documents on internetarchive.org's
13
website, what else, if anything, do you know about
14
Public Resource?
15
16
A.
I believe that that -- that generally
covers what I know about Public Resource.
17
Q.
Do you know Carl Malamud?
18
A.
Yes.
19
Q.
How do you know him?
20
A.
I've met him on brief occasion when he was
21
22
23
24
25
at Internet Archive.
Q.
And why did Carl Malamud visit Internet
Archive?
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
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THE WITNESS:
The instance when I met him,
2
he was speaking at a public function that Internet
3
Archive was hosting.
4
Aaron Swartz.
5
6
It was a memorial service for
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
Who was Aaron Swartz?
7
MS. LU:
8
THE WITNESS:
9
Aaron Swartz was a public
figure and former employee of Internet Archive.
10
11
Objection, relevance.
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
Other than speaking at this memorial
12
function, do you remember any other times that
13
Mr. Malamud visited Internet Archive when you were
14
present?
15
16
A.
Yes.
Perhaps a total of four or five
times.
17
Q.
What were the purpose of those visits?
18
A.
I don't know.
19
Q.
Did he make any speeches other than the
20
one at the memorial service?
21
22
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
23
THE WITNESS:
24
MR. HUDIS:
25
Q.
I'm not aware of any.
Do you know what the nature of his
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meetings at Internet Archive was those other four
2
or five times?
3
A.
No.
4
Q.
What else do you know about Mr. Malamud?
5
6
MS. AHMAD:
Objection, outside the scope
of the deposition topics.
7
MR. HUDIS:
8
Q.
You may answer.
9
A.
I know he's involved with Public Resource.
10
Q.
That was my next question.
11
12
13
What, if anything, do you know about
Mr. Malamud's relationship to Public Resource?
A.
As I understand it, he -- he's very
14
central at Public Resource.
15
title and responsibilities at the organization.
16
Q.
I don't know his exact
Is that the extent of your knowledge of
17
the relationship between Mr. Malamud and Public
18
Resource?
19
A.
Yes.
20
Q.
Is Public Resource allowed to post content
21
to Internet Archive's website?
22
A.
Yes.
23
Q.
Is Carl Malamud allowed to post content
24
25
into Internet Archive's website?
A.
Yes.
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MS. LU:
2
MR. HUDIS:
3
4
Q.
Objection, vague and ambiguous.
When was Public Resource given access to
publish content to Internet Archive's website?
5
MS. LU:
6
THE WITNESS:
7
MR. HUDIS:
8
9
Q.
I don't know.
When was Carl Malamud given access to post
content to Internet Archive's website?
10
11
Vague and ambiguous.
MS. LU:
Lack of personal knowledge, vague
and ambiguous.
12
MR. HUDIS:
13
Q.
You may answer.
14
A.
I don't know.
15
Q.
Is there a formal agreement between
16
Internet Archive and Public Resource that
17
memorializes, if there is one, posting rights to
18
the Internet Archive website?
19
20
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge, assumes facts not in evidence.
21
MR. HUDIS:
22
Q.
You may answer.
23
A.
If a -- if a user account was set up
24
through the -- through the site and our terms of
25
use were agreed to, then our terms of use would
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fall under that description.
2
other agreements.
3
Q.
I'm not aware of any
Do you know whether the terms of use were
4
agreed to by Public Resource or Carl Malamud or
5
both?
6
7
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge, assumes facts not in evidence.
8
MR. HUDIS:
9
Q.
You may answer if you know.
10
A.
I don't know.
11
Q.
Other than the terms of use of Exhibit 5,
12
you said there was no formal agreement between
13
Public Resource or Carl Malamud and Internet
14
Archive for posting rights.
15
Was there any informal agreement?
16
MS. LU:
17
Objection, misstates prior
testimony.
18
MR. HUDIS:
19
Q.
You may answer.
20
A.
Can you define "posting rights"?
21
Q.
Permission to upload content to Internet
22
23
Archive's website.
A.
I'm not aware of any.
24
MR. HUDIS:
25
VIDEO OPERATOR:
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The time is 10:33 a.m.
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We are off the record.
2
(Discussion off the record.)
3
(Plaintiffs' Exhibit 6 marked for
4
identification.)
5
VIDEO OPERATOR:
6
The time is 10:41 a.m.
We are on the record.
7
Mr. HUDIS:
I've now marked as Exhibit 6 a
8
web page with different views which I will discuss
9
with the witness in a moment.
10
eight pages.
11
Q.
It's a total of
Mr. Butler, what we did -- it's on the
12
date stamped up in the upper left-hand corner,
13
March 14, 2014.
14
The way that we understand the material
15
which we call the 1999 standards was uploaded to
16
Internet Archive's website.
17
frame here, showing the witness, has the ability so
18
that electronically you read it like a book.
19
The material in this
So we took a first shot of the web page
20
with the first page of the '99 standards, and then
21
the second page which is the front cover of the
22
'99 standards, and then we took another shot,
23
screenshot, of the inside cover and copyright page,
24
and then finally the table of contents.
25
Do you see that?
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A.
Yes.
2
Q.
So these are, in fact, different shots of
3
the same page with different turns, electronically,
4
of the book.
5
Do you understand that?
6
A.
I understand.
7
Q.
Okay.
8
9
10
So --
MS. AHMAD:
Yes.
So you should answer
questions about this exhibit assuming that that
description is accurate.
11
THE WITNESS:
12
MR. HUDIS:
13
Q.
I understand.
Mr. Butler, do you recognize Exhibit 6 as
14
a web page from Internet Archive's website that
15
existed at one time?
16
17
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
18
THE WITNESS:
19
Internet Archive details page.
20
the layout and design of an Internet Archive
21
details page.
22
23
24
25
This has the layout of an
I recognize it as
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
Do you know what material is posted on
this web page of Exhibit 6?
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
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knowledge.
2
3
THE WITNESS:
I see a title for the
material.
4
MR. HUDIS:
5
Q.
What title is that?
6
A.
The title is "AERA:
Standard for
7
Educational and Psychological Testing," and then
8
there's a date in parentheses following that,
9
"1999."
10
Q.
According to this exhibit, the bottom of
11
the second page, who posted the 1999 standards to
12
this web page?
13
14
15
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
THE WITNESS:
On the -- on the second
16
page, I see a metadata tag entitled, "Credits" that
17
reads "Uploaded by Public.Resource.Org.
18
As I understand the function of our
19
website, the submitter would have submitted that
20
tag and the text displayed beside it, reading
21
"Uploaded by Public.Resource.Org."
22
MR. HUDIS:
Counsel, can you stipulate
23
that Exhibit 6 is a business record of Internet
24
Archive that existed at one time, at least on
25
March 14th, 2014?
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MS. AHMAD:
2
MR. HUDIS:
3
4
Q.
No, I can't.
On the second page of Exhibit 6, it says,
"Identifier-access."
5
Do you see that?
6
A.
Yes.
7
Q.
Based upon your knowledge of an Internet
8
Archive details page, who created this identifier
9
access string?
10
11
MS. LU:
Objection, vague and ambiguous,
lack of personal knowledge.
12
MR. HUDIS:
13
Q.
You may answer.
14
A.
I don't know.
I don't know whether a
15
submitter would have created that or whether the
16
Internet Archive's automated processes created it.
17
18
Q.
the other?
19
20
To the best of your knowledge it's one or
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
21
THE WITNESS:
To the best of my knowledge,
22
it would either have been performed by Internet
23
Archive's automated processes or an account holder
24
with requisite permission to edit this item's
25
metadata.
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MR. HUDIS:
2
Q.
To the best of your knowledge, if you
3
could look on Page 1, beneath the -- beneath the
4
frame containing the 1999 standards, who wrote the
5
text under where it says, "Description"?
6
7
MS. LU:
knowledge.
8
9
Objection, lack of personal
THE WITNESS:
The service requires a
description to be provided by the submitter at the
10
time of upload.
11
be edited by an account that has permissions to do
12
so.
13
14
15
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
MS. LU:
THE WITNESS:
Sorry, could you repeat the
question, please?
20
21
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge and argumentative.
18
19
And in this context, that account would
have been by Public.Resource.Org?
16
17
That information may subsequently
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
Yes,
yes.
22
Is it correct to say that the text on this
23
web page of Exhibit 6, beneath the frame containing
24
the 1999 standards, was provided by the submitter?
25
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
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knowledge, vague and ambiguous.
2
THE WITNESS:
In the instance of the item
3
with this identifier, our records show that the
4
description was provided by the submitter.
5
6
7
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
knowledge, looking at this exhibit?
8
9
Who was the submitter, to the best of your
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge, vague and ambiguous.
10
THE WITNESS:
Our records list an account,
11
a user account, as the submitter for this -- for
12
the item with this identifier.
13
14
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
15
16
And do you know whose account that is?
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge, vague and ambiguous.
17
THE WITNESS:
The -- I know that the user
18
account is associated with an e-mail address which
19
is carl@media.org.
20
21
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
Do you know whether carl@media.org is Carl
22
Malamud's e-mail address?
23
MS. LU:
24
25
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
THE WITNESS:
I recognize that e-mail
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address as Carl Malamud's e-mail address.
2
3
4
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
At the bottom of Page 1 of Exhibit 6, it
says, "Downloaded 1,113 times."
5
What does that downloaded number reflect?
6
MS. LU:
7
knowledge.
8
9
Objection, lack of personal
THE WITNESS:
That number, the -- the
downloaded number?
10
MR. HUDIS:
11
Q.
Yes.
12
A.
Is the same as the download account to
13
which we referred earlier today.
14
MR. HUDIS:
15
VIDEO OPERATOR:
16
Off the record.
The time is 10:50 a.m.,
and we are off the record.
17
(Discussion off the record.)
18
(Plaintiffs' Exhibit 7 marked for
19
identification.)
20
VIDEO OPERATOR:
21
and we are on the record.
22
23
The time is 10:52 a.m.,
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
I've marked as deposition Exhibit 7 a
24
document that is a single page entitled, "Item
25
History for gov.law.aera.standards.1999."
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MS. LU:
2
MR. HUDIS:
3
MS. LU:
4
Can you say that again?
Okay, I'll do it again.
Jonathan, if you could repeat the
Bates number on that.
5
MR. HUDIS:
6
It's a document that's named at the top,
Sure.
I'll do both.
7
"Item History for gov.law.aera.standards.1999."
8
Bears production number IA-AERA-036.
9
Q.
Mr. Butler, I'll show you again what's
10
been marked as Exhibit 2 which is the document
11
subpoena.
12
minute.
13
A.
Okay.
14
Q.
Thank you, Mr. Butler.
15
Please look at items 1 through 4 for a
In order to comply with the document
16
subpoena, or Exhibit 2, who at Internet Archive
17
searched your company's records to determine how
18
the 1999 standards were posted to the Internet
19
Archive's website?
20
21
MS. LU:
Objection, assumes facts not in
evidence and argumentative.
22
MR. HUDIS:
23
Q.
You may answer.
24
A.
Would you read that for me, please?
25
Q.
Sure.
In order to comply with our
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document subpoena of Exhibit 2, you've read items 1
2
through 4.
3
Who at Internet Archive searched your
4
company's records to determine how the
5
1999 standards were posted to your company's
6
website?
7
A.
I did.
8
Q.
Mr. Butler, I now show you Exhibit 7 and
9
ask you if you recognize the document.
10
A.
Yes.
11
Q.
What is it?
12
A.
This document is a history showing a
13
summary of all of the technical tasks submitted for
14
the item with the identifier gov.law.aera.
15
standards.1999.
16
17
18
19
Q.
And how is the results of that search in
any way related to the content of Exhibit 6?
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
20
THE WITNESS:
21
MR. HUDIS:
22
MS. LU:
This is Exhibit 6?
Yes.
Let the record reflect the
23
witness was pointing to what I believe is Page 2 of
24
8 of Exhibit 6.
25
MR. HUDIS:
Yes.
It's my copy.
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2
THE WITNESS:
question, please?
3
4
And would you repeat
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
5
Yes.
And I will state it a different way.
Is Exhibit 7 the results of a search to
6
determine who posted the content on the web page of
7
Exhibit 6?
8
9
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
10
THE WITNESS:
The Exhibit 7 is a result of
11
a search to determine who posted the item
12
associated with the URL listed on the printout for
13
Exhibit 6.
14
15
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
And what was the results of that search?
16
MS. LU:
17
THE WITNESS:
18
Objection, vague and ambiguous.
One document located was
the -- the item history that is Exhibit 7.
19
MR. HUDIS:
Counsel for Internet Archive,
20
can you stipulate that Exhibit 7 is a business
21
record of Internet Archive?
22
MS. AHMAD:
23
MS. LU:
24
MR. HUDIS:
25
Q.
Yes.
No objection.
No objection, okay.
And you performed the search, the results
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2
3
of which are reflected as Exhibit 7?
A.
Yes, I -- I clicked the link to get to
this history page.
4
MR. HUDIS:
5
VIDEO OPERATOR:
6
Off the record.
The time is 10:57 a.m.,
and we are off the record.
7
(Discussion off the record.)
8
(Plaintiffs' Exhibit 8 marked for
9
identification.)
10
11
VIDEO OPERATOR:
The time is 10:59 a.m.,
and we are on the record.
12
MR. HUDIS:
I now mark as Exhibit 8 a
13
multipage document bearing the production numbers
14
IA-AERA 5 through 34.
15
MS. LU:
And I'll just state for the
16
record that it appears to me that this is actually
17
several documents that were produced consecutively
18
and now are entered as one exhibit together.
19
that --
20
21
22
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
Is
That is correct, Counsel.
Mr. Butler, do you recognize the
collection of documents now marked as Exhibit 8?
23
A.
Yes.
24
Q.
What are they?
25
A.
These documents are the logs for -- for
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the tasks that are summarized in the item history.
2
They represent the technical tasks submitted for
3
the item with identifier gov.law.aera.standards
4
.1999.
5
Q.
Is it correct to say that the search
6
summary of Exhibit 7 resulted in retrieval of the
7
logs of Exhibit 8?
8
MS. LU:
9
THE WITNESS:
Objection, vague and ambiguous.
I was able to access the
10
logs of Exhibit 8 through hyperlinks that were
11
available on the page for Exhibit 7.
12
MR. HUDIS:
Counsel, can you stipulate
13
that Exhibit 8 is a collection of the business
14
records of Internet Archive?
15
MS. AHMAD:
Yes.
16
MR. HUDIS:
Any objection, Counsel?
17
MS. LU:
18
MR. HUDIS:
19
Q.
No objection.
Mr. Butler, how does -- how long does
20
Internet Archive maintain logs of the type shown in
21
Exhibit 8?
22
23
24
25
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
THE WITNESS:
As a general practice, these
logs are not deleted unless the item itself is
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deleted.
2
MR. HUDIS:
3
Q.
4
do you mean?
And when you say "the item itself," what
5
MS. LU:
6
MR. HUDIS:
7
Q.
8
9
Objection, vague and ambiguous.
Do you mean the item of Exhibit 6?
MS. LU:
Objection, vague and ambiguous,
argumentative.
10
THE WITNESS:
By "item," I mean the -- the
11
collection of files and metadata that are posted
12
associated with a URL archive.org/details/ the
13
identifier.
14
15
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
And you were able to retrieve these logs
16
of Exhibit 8 associated with the identifier
17
gov.law.aera.standards.1999?
18
A.
That's correct.
19
Q.
So the item has not yet been deleted from
20
Internet Archive's website?
21
MS. LU:
22
MR. HUDIS:
Objection, vague and ambiguous.
23
Q.
You may answer.
24
A.
That's correct.
25
Q.
From where did you gather the logs of
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Exhibit 8?
A.
The logs of Exhibit 8 were gathered from
3
Internet Archive's servers that serve the site
4
archive.org.
5
Q.
6
servers?
7
8
Who at Internet Archive maintains those
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
9
MR. HUDIS:
10
Q.
If you know.
11
A.
Internet Archive's engineers maintain
12
13
those servers.
Q.
14
15
MS. LU:
THE WITNESS:
Internet Archive's
engineers.
18
19
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
16
17
Who has access to those servers?
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
Internet engineers?
20
MS. LU:
21
MR. HUDIS:
22
23
24
25
Q.
Objection.
What type of engineers have access to
these servers?
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge, and vague and ambiguous.
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MR. HUDIS:
2
Q.
You may answer.
3
A.
Internet Archive's Petabox team is the
4
name of the team.
5
Q.
Could you spell Petabox?
6
A.
Yes.
7
Q.
And who comprises Internet Archive's
8
9
P-e-t-a-b-o-x.
Petabox team?
A.
Several engineers who work with data
10
clusters, physical hardware and also support the --
11
the back end of Internet Archive, of the
12
archive.org website.
13
Q.
So, generally, the Petabox team is
14
comprised of computer hardware and software
15
engineers?
16
A.
That's correct.
17
Q.
What tool was used to extract these logs
18
of Exhibit 8?
19
20
MS. LU:
knowledge.
21
22
THE WITNESS:
25
I obtained these records
through the web browser Firefox.
23
24
Objection, lack of personal
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
And through the Firefox web browser, did
you use the Mac Terminal application?
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2
MS. LU:
Misstates prior testimony.
3
4
Objection, incomprehensible.
Facts not in evidence.
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
Besides the Firefox web browser, what
5
other tools, if any, did you use to procure the
6
logs of Exhibit 8?
7
8
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
9
THE WITNESS:
The -- I used the Firefox
10
web browser with the site archive.org to -- to
11
obtain these -- these records from archive.org's
12
records of the task history of the item.
13
MR. HUDIS:
14
Q.
And the task history is Exhibit 7?
15
A.
Yes, the -- the summary is Exhibit 7 and
16
17
18
then the specific tasks are Exhibit 8.
Q.
carl@media.org."
19
20
Now, in Exhibit 7, it says, "submitter
You associate that -- that e-mail address
with Carl Malamud?
21
A.
Yes.
22
Q.
Looking at the logs of Exhibit 8, at the
23
top of each grouping of pages, first grouping is
24
three pages, the second grouping is thirteen pages,
25
the third grouping is two pages, the fourth
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grouping is three pages, the fifth grouping is two
2
pages, the sixth grouping is five pages, and the
3
final grouping is two pages.
4
5
Each one of them has a task ID at the
upper left-hand corner.
Do you see that?
6
A.
Yes.
7
Q.
How did you determine which tasks to
8
search for?
9
10
MS. LU:
Objection, misstates prior
testimony.
11
THE WITNESS:
I obtained the task -- the
12
task logs by selecting the hyperlink for each task
13
under "task id" on Exhibit 7.
14
15
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
Now, each of these documents of Exhibit 8
16
includes a line that states, "submitter
17
carl@media.org."
18
19
This is the e-mail associated with Carl
Malamud?
20
A.
Yes.
21
Q.
And Mr. Malamud has access to Internet
22
23
24
25
Archive's system by a user name and password?
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
THE WITNESS:
Yes, I understand this
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account to be associated with Carl Malamud.
2
3
4
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
for upload purposes by a user name and password?
5
6
MS. LU:
THE WITNESS:
11
MR. HUDIS: Yes.
Q.
How does Mr. Malamud gain access to
Internet Archive's systems to submit a post?
12
13
Would you say the question
one more time, please?
9
10
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge, calls for speculation.
7
8
And he accesses Internet Archive's systems
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge, calls for speculation.
14
THE WITNESS:
In the instance of this
15
item, it would be through the use of -- this item
16
was submitted through the user account associated
17
with carl@media.org and was used by submission
18
of -- and gained access by submission of the e-mail
19
address and log-in credentials.
20
Q.
What are log-in credentials?
21
A.
Log-in credential would be an e-mail
22
23
address and password.
Q.
Did Internet Archive monitor the materials
24
posted to its servers as reflected by these logs of
25
Exhibit 8?
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2
MS. LU:
Objection, vague and ambiguous,
lack of personal knowledge.
3
MR. HUDIS:
4
Q.
You may answer.
5
A.
One more time, please.
6
Q.
Yes.
Did Internet Archive monitor the
7
materials posted to its servers as reflected by
8
these logs of Exhibit 8?
9
A.
To the best of my knowledge, no person
10
working on behalf of Internet Archive monitored --
11
personally reviewed the processes at work for each
12
one of these tasks.
13
Q.
And after the material was posted, did
14
Internet Archive exercise any quality control of
15
the materials once submitted?
16
17
MS. LU:
knowledge.
18
19
And vague and ambiguous.
THE WITNESS:
To the best of my knowledge,
no.
20
MR. HUDIS:
21
22
Objection, lack of personal
Q.
And according to Exhibit 8, when did you
search for these logs?
23
A.
According to Exhibit 8, the search was
24
performed on October 30th, 2014 at 9:40:49 Pacific
25
time.
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Q.
Thank you for a precise answer.
2
A.
You're welcome.
3
Q.
What are the dates of these logs?
4
MS. LU:
5
MR. HUDIS:
6
7
Q.
Objection, vague and ambiguous.
All right.
Can you tell from Exhibit 8 the dates of
these logs on Exhibit 8?
8
MS. LU:
9
MR. HUDIS:
10
11
Q.
Objection, vague and ambiguous.
Okay.
Do you want to go through them one at a
time?
12
A.
There's a -- there's a line at the
13
beginning of each log that reads, "Task started at"
14
that has a record -- has Internet Archive's record
15
of the time of submission for each task.
16
17
Q.
And then at the end of each log is there a
time of finish?
18
A.
Yes.
19
Q.
So, the first task, 107010707, what time
20
was this task started?
21
22
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
23
THE WITNESS:
The task log states the task
24
was started on May 26, 2012 at 11:48 a.m. Pacific
25
time.
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2
3
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
Let's go to task No. 107010788.
That's on
Page -- production Page 8.
4
What time was this task started?
5
MS. LU:
6
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
7
THE WITNESS:
I can only state that our
8
record -- our record states that the task was
9
started at the same date, May 26th, 2012, at
10
11:48 a.m. Pacific time.
11
12
13
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
Exhibit 8, when was task 107019567 started?
14
15
And if we go to production Page 21 of
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
16
THE WITNESS:
Again, I only have the
17
record created by our system.
18
the task was started at -- on the same date,
19
May 26th, 2012, at, let's see, 1:07 Pacific time.
20
1:07 p.m.
21
22
That record states
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
And if you could turn to page --
23
production Page 23 of Exhibit 8, what time was task
24
107034141 started?
25
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
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knowledge.
2
THE WITNESS:
The task log reads that the
3
task started on the same date, May 26th, 2012, at
4
4:46 p.m. Pacific time.
5
MR. HUDIS:
6
7
Q.
Mr. Butler, please turn to Page 26 of
Exhibit 8.
8
What time was task 107040689 started?
9
MS. LU:
10
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
11
THE WITNESS:
The task log states that the
12
task was started on May 27th, 2012, at 6:43 p.m.
13
Pacific time.
14
MR. HUDIS:
15
16
Q.
Exhibit 8.
17
18
Task No. 107040792, according to your
records, when did this task start?
19
20
Mr. Butler, please turn to Page 28 of
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
21
THE WITNESS:
The task log reads that the
22
task started on May 27th, 2012 at 6:43 p.m. Pacific
23
time.
24
25
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
Mr. Butler, please turn to Page 33 of
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Exhibit 8.
2
What time did Task ID 107040809 start?
3
MS. LU:
4
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
5
THE WITNESS:
The task log reads that the
6
task started at -- on May 27th, 2012 at 6:44 p.m.
7
Pacific time.
8
MS. AHMAD:
Let's take a break.
9
MR. HUDIS:
Yes.
10
VIDEO OPERATOR:
This marks the end of
11
volume 1, disk 1 in the deposition of Chris Butler.
12
the time is 11:16 a.m.
We're off the record.
13
(Brief recess.)
14
VIDEO OPERATOR:
This marks the beginning
15
of volume 1, disk 2 in the deposition of Chris
16
Butler.
17
record.
18
19
The time is 11:24 a.m., and we are on the
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
Mr. Butler, each of these logs of
20
Exhibit 8 reflects a process of content submission
21
by Mr. Malamud or somebody using his credentials?
22
23
MS. LU:
knowledge, and misstates prior testimony.
24
25
Objection, lack of personal
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
You may answer.
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A.
2
3
What was the question again, please?
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
Yes.
Do the logs of Exhibit 8 reflect the
4
activity of submitting content to Internet
5
Archive's website by Carl Malamud or somebody using
6
his log-in credentials?
7
8
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge, assumes facts not in evidence.
9
THE WITNESS:
10
MR. HUDIS:
11
THE WITNESS:
The -- these records --
12
Of Exhibit 8.
-- of Exhibit 8 reflect the
tasks submitted for -- for this item.
13
MR. HUDIS:
14
Q.
What item is that?
15
A.
The item is gov.law.aera.standards.1999.
16
Q.
Uh-huh.
17
A.
The record of the submitter in -- in these
18
logs is the account associated with the e-mail
19
address carl@media.org.
20
21
22
23
24
25
Q.
Which you associate with Carl Malamud?
MS. LU:
Objection, misstates prior
testimony.
THE WITNESS:
I associate the e-mail
address carl@media.org with Carl Malamud.
MR. HUDIS:
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Q.
And each of these logs reflect processes
2
that were performed on May 26th and May 27th of
3
2012?
4
5
MS. LU:
knowledge.
6
7
THE WITNESS:
The question one more time,
please.
8
MR. HUDIS:
9
10
Objection, lack of personal
Q.
Yes.
Each of these logs reflects processes that
were performed on May 26th and May 27th, 2012?
11
A.
The logs list the dates that these were
12
performed as May 27th -- May 26th and May 27th of
13
2012.
14
Q.
Each of these documents of Exhibit 8 is a
15
log that resulted from a command being run on
16
Internet Archive's web servers?
17
18
MS. LU:
knowledge.
19
20
THE WITNESS:
The question one more time,
please.
21
22
Objection, lack of personal
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
Yes.
Each of these documents of Exhibit 8 is a
23
log that resulted from a command being run on
24
Internet Archive's servers?
25
MS. LU:
And also add, vague and ambiguous
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objection.
2
THE WITNESS:
This is the Internet
3
Archive's log of the -- of the tasks submitted,
4
including commands submitted to Internet Archive's
5
website for the identifier previously mentioned.
6
7
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
And each of these logs has a command line
8
that is reflected by the line [cmd] right arrow, do
9
you see that?
10
MS. LU:
11
on which page of which --
Counsel, sorry, where are you,
12
MR. HUDIS:
13
Exhibit 8, the command line.
14
MS. LU:
According to Page 5 of
I think, for the record, you're
15
talking about [cmd] two equal signs and then
16
greater than symbol?
17
18
MR. HUDIS:
Yes, which I define as right
arrow.
19
Q.
Do you see that?
20
A.
Yes.
21
Q.
And if you go back to Exhibit 7, the
22
different commands that were performed starting
23
from the bottom are archive.php, derive.php,
24
bup.php, again twice archive.php, derive.php and
25
bup.php.
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Do you see that?
2
A.
Yes.
3
Q.
And we will leave for later the last one
4
at the top, says, "make_dark."
5
for later.
6
7
Each of these commands has a "php" file
extension.
8
9
We'll leave that
Do you know what a "php" is?
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
10
THE WITNESS:
I don't know what "php"
11
stands for.
12
associated with -- with web pages.
13
14
15
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
Is it a scripting language, to the best of
your knowledge?
16
17
It's an extension that I've seen
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
18
THE WITNESS:
19
MR. HUDIS:
20
Q.
21
I don't know.
stored?
22
23
Do you know where the php files are
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge, vague and ambiguous.
24
THE WITNESS:
25
MR. HUDIS:
No.
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Q.
2
3
Do you know who wrote the php scripts?
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
4
THE WITNESS:
5
MR. HUDIS:
6
7
Q.
Do you know if the php file extensions
were Carl Malamud's scripts?
8
9
No.
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge, and vague and ambiguous.
10
THE WITNESS:
I know that -- that these
11
commands that you see listed in the command
12
column --
13
MR. HUDIS:
14
THE WITNESS:
The witness is pointing --- on Exhibit 7 and also
15
listed by the bracketed command tag by the right
16
arrow previously mentioned are generic commands
17
that are associated with many, many items.
18
are very common commands and functions of the
19
archive.org website.
20
21
22
They
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
Looking at Exhibit 7, you see there is a
column that says "args," do you see that?
23
A.
Yes.
24
Q.
Do you know whether that stands for
25
arguments?
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MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
3
THE WITNESS:
4
MR. HUDIS:
5
Q.
No.
Do you know what arguments were supplied
6
for each of the commands for each of these logs so
7
that -- so that the process described in the log
8
would run?
9
10
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge, and vague and ambiguous.
11
THE WITNESS:
There are records of -- of
12
information associated with the term "args" in
13
each -- in each task log.
14
15
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
So, for example, looking at Exhibit 7,
16
does the submission of the argument
17
"done=delsrc&from_url=ry" -- excuse me, "rsyn..."
18
enable archive.php to run?
19
20
MS. LU:
knowledge.
21
22
THE WITNESS:
25
I don't know that that's
what enables archive.php to run.
23
24
Objection, lack of personal
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
Looking at Exhibit 7, do you know what
each of these commands do?
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MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge, and vague and ambiguous.
3
THE WITNESS:
I have a general
4
understanding of the function of each of these
5
commands.
6
MR. HUDIS:
7
Q.
What does the archive.php command do?
8
A.
Archive.php is associated with the
9
submission of files or information by a user to be
10
incorporated into the item and displayed, made
11
available with that item.
12
13
Q.
Do you know why the archive.php command
was run three times?
14
MS. LU:
15
knowledge.
16
Objection, lack of personal
evidence.
17
And objection, assumes facts not in
THE WITNESS:
Generally, the first
18
archive.php is associated with the submission of --
19
of a -- a file relating to a work that is a text or
20
movie or audio recording.
21
metadata that needs to be submitted with the
22
initiating task for an item.
23
It also contains
Subsequent archive.php commands may
24
correspond to the submission of further files --
25
excuse me, further files for information to be
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incorporated with the item.
2
3
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
4
5
Do you know what the derive.php file does?
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
6
THE WITNESS:
Derive.php is associated
7
with the creation of derivative file formats that
8
the archive.org website automatically generates
9
from the original file and -- and presents on the
10
item -- on the item's details page.
11
MR. HUDIS:
12
Q.
On the website?
13
A.
On archive.org.
14
Q.
What does the bup.php command do?
15
16
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
17
THE WITNESS:
"Bup" is associated with
18
creation of a backup of -- of the files, of the
19
item's files, as Internet Archive uses two copies,
20
creates and maintains two copies of a file in case
21
one server has issue that prevent those files from
22
being available.
23
24
25
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
Do you know why the backup.php command was
run twice?
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2
MS. LU:
knowledge.
3
Objection, lack of personal
And assumes facts not in evidence.
THE WITNESS:
The backup.php command is
4
typically run after a change is made to an item,
5
and it is the updating of the backup copy.
6
7
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
Mr. Butler, all of the logs produced by
8
Internet Archive which are now reflected in
9
Exhibit A have the identifier gov.law.area
10
.standards.1999.
11
MS. LU:
12
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge, and misdescribes the documents.
13
14
What is this?
THE WITNESS:
The question is asking what
the identifier is?
15
MR. HUDIS:
16
Q.
Yes.
17
A.
The identifier is a string of characters
18
that is submitted with an item by the submitter
19
that is unique to the item and then is incorporated
20
into the URL for the public page for the item.
21
22
23
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
And that in this instance is reflected in
Exhibit 6?
24
MS. LU:
25
THE WITNESS:
Objection, vague and ambiguous.
The same identifier listed
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for the tasks on Exhibit 8 appears in the URL at
2
the bottom of the printouts for Exhibit 6.
3
4
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
So if Mr. Malamud was the submitter in
5
this case, was it Mr. Malamud who named this
6
particular identifier "gov.law.aera.standards
7
.1999"?
8
9
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge, calls for speculation.
10
THE WITNESS:
The records of the task log
11
state that the identifier submitted for this item
12
by the submitter is gov.law.aera.standards.1999.
13
14
15
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
In each of the logs of Exhibit 8, there is
a line that says, "server."
16
Do you see that?
17
A.
I see a line that begins with "server."
18
Q.
All right.
19
And then it follows with
"ia600500.us.archive.org."
20
What is this identifier?
21
MS. LU:
22
MR. HUDIS:
23
24
25
Objection.
Next to -- sorry, next to
"server"?
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge, vague and ambiguous.
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THE WITNESS:
The string of characters
2
next to "server" is the location of a server
3
maintained by Internet Archive that has a server
4
name of "ia600500."
5
MR. HUDIS:
6
Q.
Do you know what is stored on this
7
particular server?
8
"ia600500"?
9
10
MS. LU:
The one you just named,
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge and misstates prior testimony.
11
THE WITNESS:
Generally, servers
12
referenced in task logs store information posted to
13
archive.org's website.
14
15
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
And if you notice, the server name for
16
task 107010707 is different from the server of the
17
task 107010788.
18
Do you see that?
19
MS. LU:
20
THE WITNESS:
21
Yes, I see a different
server name for these two tasks.
22
23
Objection, vague and ambiguous.
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
What's -- if you know, what is the
24
difference between the server from the task
25
107010707 and the server of task 107010788?
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2
MS. LU:
knowledge, assumes facts not in evidence.
3
4
THE WITNESS:
I don't know of a
substantial difference between these two servers.
5
6
Objection, lack of personal
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
So if I were to go through the rest of the
7
logs of Exhibit 8 and there were different named
8
servers, you would not know the difference from one
9
server to the next?
10
11
MS. LU:
Objection, assumes facts not in
evidence.
12
THE WITNESS:
13
MR. HUDIS:
14
Q.
Correct.
Mr. Butler, let's go back to Exhibit 6,
15
and that's the 1999 standards posted to Internet
16
Archive's website.
17
18
MS. LU:
testimony.
19
20
Objection, misstates prior
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
Do the logs of Exhibit 8 reflect Carl
21
Malamud or someone with his log-on credentials
22
posting the 1999 standards to Internet Archive's
23
website?
24
25
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge, calls for speculation, and misstates
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prior testimony.
2
And argumentative.
THE WITNESS:
The logs in Exhibit 8 have a
3
recorded submitter of carl@media.org for the item
4
with the identifier gov.law.aera.standards.1999.
5
This is the same identifier that is listed at the
6
bottom of the printout for Exhibit 6.
7
8
9
10
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
Internet Archive's website in May of 2012, were any
other materials posted with them?
11
12
When the 1999 standards were posted to
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge and relevance.
13
THE WITNESS:
14
MR. HUDIS:
Can you define "materials"?
15
Q.
Metadata.
16
A.
The -- the task log indicates that a file
17
named "aera.standards.1999.pdf_meta.text" was
18
submitted.
19
"gov.law.aera.standards.1999_meta.xml" was created.
20
Typically, these are associated with the submission
21
of metadata from a submitter.
22
23
24
25
Q.
It also indicates that a file named
For what purpose?
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge, calls for speculation.
THE WITNESS:
Generally, the -- the
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metadata is submitted to archive.org and displayed.
2
Sometimes it has -- it has informational value for
3
the item.
4
title for an item or an author.
5
6
An example would be the submission of a
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
So, for example, on Exhibit 6, it says,
7
"Author:
8
Association."
9
10
Is that the type of metadata you were
talking about?
11
12
American Educational Research
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
13
THE WITNESS:
Yes, that would be an
14
example of metadata that would typically be
15
submitted by a submitter to be -- to be displayed,
16
along with a posted item.
17
18
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
Did any Internet Archive employees have
19
any participation in posting the 1999 standards or
20
associated metadata to Internet Archive's website?
21
A.
One more time, please.
22
Q.
Sure.
Did any Internet Archive employees
23
have any participation in posting the
24
1999 standards or associated metadata to Internet
25
Archive's website?
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A.
To the lack [sic] of my knowledge, no
2
Internet Archive employee directly participated in
3
the posting of this item to archive.org.
4
Q.
What involvement, if any, did Internet
5
Archive have in the posting of the 1999 standards
6
or associated metadata to Internet Archive's
7
website?
8
MS. LU:
9
THE WITNESS:
Objection, vague and ambiguous.
The Internet Archive
10
website, according to this task log, appears to
11
have run standard automated processes responsive to
12
commands submitted by a submitter.
13
14
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
Once posted by Mr. Malamud, where on
15
Internet Archive's website could the 1999 standards
16
be found?
17
18
I'm talking about the URL.
MS. LU:
Objection, assumes facts not in
evidence.
19
THE WITNESS:
The -- the URL associated
20
with this identifier would be archive.org/details/
21
gov.law.aera.standards.1999.
22
MR. HUDIS:
23
24
25
Q.
Was the uploaded metadata also posted to
this same URL?
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
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knowledge.
2
THE WITNESS:
It seems that a metadata
3
file was created and associated with the item.
4
don't see any signs of -- of error in that process
5
from looking at these logs.
6
7
8
9
MR. HUDIS:
I
So let's go through each one
of the logs one at time.
Q.
What is happening -- this is in
Exhibit 8 -- in the log of task 107010707?
10
MS. LU:
Objection, lack personal
11
knowledge, and vague and ambiguous.
12
narrative.
13
THE WITNESS:
14
MR. HUDIS:
15
THE WITNESS:
16
It calls for a
MR. HUDIS:
17
18
Q.
Can you be more specific -Yes.
-- with the question?
What function is being recorded by the log
of 107010707?
19
MS. LU:
20
THE WITNESS:
Same objections.
The log is associated with
21
an archive.php command which I understand to relate
22
to the submission of files and/or metadata.
23
24
25
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
Now, you see below the definition of the
task, it says, "Getting file(s) from," and it gives
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you a very long URL which starts with "rsync."
2
3
4
5
Do you see that?
A.
Sorry, this is near the bottom of the
first page?
Q.
6
Yes.
MR. HUDIS:
May I point to the witness,
8
MS. AHMAD:
Yes.
9
MR. HUDIS:
7
10
11
Counsel?
Q.
file(s)"?
12
13
MS. LU:
THE WITNESS:
18
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
Now, is that the URL from which the
document was uploaded?
19
20
I see -- I see where the log
says, "Getting file(s)."
16
17
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
14
15
So you see "Getting file(s)" and "Getting
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
21
THE WITNESS:
This is a URL associated
22
with a submission of information to archive.org for
23
posting with the item.
24
25
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
And the item, the first item is
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1,825 bytes, do you see that?
2
3
MS. LU:
knowledge.
4
5
THE WITNESS:
8
9
10
11
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
And the second "Getting file" then results
in a receipt of -A.
I see a line that states that 1,000,493 --
excuse me -- 14,934,120 bytes received.
Q.
12
13
I see a line that it states
that 1,825 bytes received.
6
7
Objection, lack of personal
Does the log say received from where?
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
14
THE WITNESS:
The notes indicating the --
15
or stating the receipts of this amount of
16
information directly -- directly follow tasks
17
stating that files are being retrieved from the
18
long URL following the term "rsync."
19
20
21
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
production Page 6 of Exhibit 8, the next page.
22
23
Now, you see towards the middle, it says,
"Now synchronizing item to the backup server."
24
25
Could you please turn to Page --
Do you see that?
A.
Yes.
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Q.
At how many locations are the
2
1999 standards stored within Internet Archive, if
3
know?
4
5
MS. LU:
knowledge, assumes facts not in evidence.
6
7
THE WITNESS:
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
10
11
Generally, items submitted
to archive.org are stored on two different servers.
8
9
Objection, lack of personal
For what purpose?
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
12
THE WITNESS:
As -- as I had stated
13
earlier, Internet Archive uses paired storage in
14
the instance that one server becomes inaccessible.
15
16
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
Now, lower down on the same page,
17
production Page 6 of Exhibit 8, it says, "Deleting
18
from hd.www37," et cetera, et cetera,
19
"us.archive.org."
20
Why are these files being deleted?
21
MS. LU:
22
23
24
25
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge, and assumes facts not in evidence.
THE WITNESS:
I don't know exactly what
files are being deleted pursuant to this line.
MR. HUDIS:
Let's turn to production
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Page 8 of Exhibit 8.
2
task with the ID 107010788.
3
Q.
4
5
And we're now on the 13-page
What task is this log reflecting?
MS. AHMAD:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
6
THE WITNESS:
This log is associated with
7
task No. 107010788.
8
with a derive.php command both in the task log and
9
in the item history.
10
This task ID is associated
MR. HUDIS:
11
Q.
And what function is being performed
12
according to this log which has a derive.php
13
command?
14
15
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge, assumes facts not in evidence.
16
THE WITNESS:
Derive.php is associated
17
with the automated creation of derivative file
18
formats by the archive.org website.
19
MR. HUDIS:
20
Q.
21
22
Do you know what the BookOp module does?
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
23
THE WITNESS:
No, I don't know what that
24
specific -- I don't know what the BookOp module
25
does.
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2
MR. HUDIS:
Page 10 of Exhibit 8.
3
4
Could we turn to production
Q.
Do you see towards the top of the page, it
says, "Heuristic Resolution Analysis"?
5
A.
Yes.
6
Q.
And underneath it, it says, "number of
7
pages in PDF: 211"?
8
A.
Yes.
9
Q.
Is this the PDF file corresponding to the
10
uploaded 1999 standards?
11
12
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
13
THE WITNESS:
This task appears to be
14
being performed on a file named "aera.standards
15
.1999.pdf."
16
task No. 107010707 states that this file was
17
submitted to the item by the submitter.
18
The initial task for this item with
MR. HUDIS:
19
Q.
And my question from Page 10, Exhibit 8,
20
task 107010788 is, what was the size of that PDF
21
file?
22
23
24
25
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
THE WITNESS:
The task history has a
reading that says that the PDF file has 211 pages.
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2
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
And if you could turn to Page 11 --
3
production Page 11 of Exhibit 8, do you know what
4
is happening where it says formatting gifs?
5
6
MS. LU:
knowledge.
7
8
THE WITNESS:
As clarification, the log
states "forming gifs."
9
10
Objection, lack of personal
MR. HUDIS:
Thank you, "forming gifs."
Thank you.
11
THE WITNESS:
This appears to be the
12
generation of random images taken from a submitted
13
text which are then displayed alongside the item.
14
This is a standard process performed for texts that
15
are posted to archive.org.
16
17
18
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
excuse me, the AnimatedGIF, G-I-F, module does?
19
20
Do you know what the AnimatedGIFT --
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
21
THE WITNESS:
AnimatedGIF module creates
22
random images from a submitted text to be displayed
23
alongside a posted text to archive.org.
24
25
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
And what is the function of these random
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images?
2
3
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
4
THE WITNESS:
The random images, as I
5
understand it, are generated to -- to provide an
6
example of pages that may exist in a text.
7
MR. HUDIS:
8
9
Q.
does?
10
11
And do you know what the AbbyyXML module
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
12
THE WITNESS:
As I understand it, the
13
AbbyyXML module plays a role in generating a text
14
file, a plain text file, of a submitted text.
15
16
17
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
Mr. Butler, could you turn to Page 13 of
Exhibit 8.
At the bottom, it says, DjvuXML module.
18
Do you know what this module does?
19
MS. LU:
20
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
21
THE WITNESS:
As I understand it, this
22
module creates a derivative of the initially
23
submitted text in a -- that functions with a
24
special reader called a DjVu reader or deja vu
25
reader.
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2
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
3
4
Do you know what a DjVu reader does?
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
5
THE WITNESS:
The extent of my knowledge
6
is that a -- a reader will display a -- a DjVu text
7
for -- for display for a user.
8
9
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
10
11
On a website?
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
12
THE WITNESS:
I'm afraid I don't recall if
13
it's used within a browser or if it's -- if it is
14
used as a stand-alone application.
15
16
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
Looking at Exhibit 6, the top third of the
17
page, the 1999 standards were within a framed
18
document which I told you basically turns the
19
pages.
20
Do you know what kind of reader this is?
21
MS. LU:
22
23
24
25
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge, and assumes facts not in evidence.
THE WITNESS:
Yes, this is the Internet
Archive's BookReader application.
MR. HUDIS:
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2
3
4
Q.
And is that created by the DjVu module or
the BookOp module, or do you not know?
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal knowledge
and compound.
5
THE WITNESS:
I know that it's not created
6
by the DjVu module.
7
the BookOp module plays a role in that.
8
9
10
11
I don't know whether are not
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
Do you know what the EPUB module does?
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
12
THE WITNESS:
Generally, the EPUB module
13
creates another derivative format that is a -- a
14
.epub file, e-p-u-b.
15
16
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
17
18
MS. LU:
knowledge.
19
20
And what does that do?
Objection, lack of personal
Vague and ambiguous.
MS. AHMAD:
For the record, we're on
Page 14 now?
21
MR. HUDIS:
22
are on Page 14 of Exhibit 8.
23
THE WITNESS:
24
MR. HUDIS:
Page 15 -- excuse me.
25
Q.
Yes, we
Thank you.
I'm sorry, the question was?
Yes.
Do you know what the EPUB file does once
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created by the EPUB module?
2
A.
An EPUB file is a file format that is
3
associated with an electronic text and must be read
4
by software that's specifically designed to display
5
an EPUB file.
6
7
Q.
This is
on Page 15 of Exhibit 8.
8
9
Do you know what TOC module does?
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
10
THE WITNESS:
11
MR. HUDIS:
12
13
Q.
Do you know what a scandataXML module
does?
14
15
No.
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
16
THE WITNESS:
17
MR. HUDIS:
18
19
20
21
22
Q.
No.
Do you know what a PDF module does?
And
that's on page 16 of Exhibit 8.
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
THE WITNESS:
PDF module creates a
23
derivative file of an initial file.
24
a black and white PDF that's smaller in size than
25
any initial PDF that had been submitted.
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MR. HUDIS:
Q.
3
4
Do you know what a HackPDF does?
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
5
THE WITNESS:
6
MR. HUDIS:
No.
Excuse me, HackPDF module.
7
Q.
And the answer is no?
8
A.
No.
9
Q.
Could you turn to Page -- production
10
Page 20 of Exhibit 8.
11
task 107010788.
12
13
Do you know why each of these files on
Page 20 of Exhibit 8 are being autocleaned?
14
15
This is the last page of
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge, and assumes facts not in evidence.
16
THE WITNESS:
17
MR. HUDIS:
18
Q.
No, I don't know.
Could you go to the next task, please,
19
production Page 21 of Exhibit 8.
20
starting task 107019567.
21
according to this log, is the backup command?
22
23
24
25
MS. LU:
This is now
And being performed here,
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge, assumes facts not in evidence.
THE WITNESS:
The command associated with
this task is bup.php, which I understand to be
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associated with the creation of a backup of an
2
item.
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
And the back -- and the item being backed
up is gov.law.aera.standards.1999?
A.
The identifier listed on this task in this
task history is that identifier.
Q.
And this was, as we discussed before,
placing the item on a backup server to make sure,
10
if one server is not accessible, another server
11
could be accessible at Internet Archive?
12
13
MS. LU:
knowledge, and assumes facts not in evidence.
14
15
THE WITNESS:
18
That is the operation that's
associated with the bup.php command.
16
17
Objection, lack of personal
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
Could we go to Page 23 of Exhibit 8.
This
is now starting the task 107034141.
19
What task is being performed here?
20
MS. LU:
21
22
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
THE WITNESS:
The command associated
23
listed on this task log is archive.php which is
24
associated with the submission of files or metadata
25
for an item.
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2
3
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
this task?
4
5
So this was the submission of metadata in
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
6
THE WITNESS:
The task -- the task log
7
states that it was an archive -- states that it was
8
an archive.php command which is associated with the
9
submission of -- of metadata or files.
10
11
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
Could you turn to Page -- production
12
Page 24 of Exhibit 8.
13
messages at the bottom of this page.
14
"Warning:
Possible DNS Spoofing Detected!"
15
"Warning:
Remote Host Identification has Changed!
16
It is possible that someone is doing something
17
nasty!"
18
19
It says
Do you know what the purpose of these
warnings are?
20
21
And there are warning
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
22
THE WITNESS:
23
MR. HUDIS:
24
25
Q.
No, I don't.
Please turn to production Page 26 of
Exhibit 8.
This is now starting task
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No. 107040689.
2
3
And is this another archive.php command
being performed here?
4
5
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
6
THE WITNESS:
The command associated -- or
7
the command listed on this task log is a command
8
archive.php.
9
10
11
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
performed in this task?
12
13
Do you know what function is being
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
14
THE WITNESS:
Archive.php, again, is
15
associated with the submission of files or metadata
16
for an item.
17
18
19
20
21
22
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
And, again, the item is gov.law.aera
.standards.1999?
A.
The identifier listed in these task logs
is that identifier.
Q.
And, again, we see on Page 27 of Exhibit 8
23
the same warnings.
24
warnings are about?
25
A.
And you don't know what those
That's correct.
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2
Q.
Exhibit 8.
3
4
performed here?
MS. LU:
THE WITNESS:
MR. HUDIS:
10
Q.
In this specific log, do you know what is
happening here?
12
13
The command listed on this
task log for this task is derive.php.
9
11
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
7
8
This starts task 107040792.
And the derive.php command is being
5
6
Could we please turn to Page 28 of
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge, vague and ambiguous.
14
THE WITNESS:
Generally, a -- an
15
archive.php task may trigger a derive task to
16
update the derivative files after any change has
17
been made to the initially submitted metadata or
18
file.
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
Could we turn to Page 31 of Exhibit 8.
At the bottom of that page, do you know
why the files are being autocleaned?
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge, assumes facts not in evidence.
THE WITNESS:
No.
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2
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
Could we turn now to Page 33 of Exhibit 8.
3
This is the final task and it is identified with
4
107040809.
5
6
Do you know what task is being performed
here, bup.php?
7
8
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
9
THE WITNESS:
The command listed on this
10
task log is bup.php.
11
creation of a backup file -- backup copies of the
12
file for the item.
13
14
15
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
MS. LU:
THE WITNESS:
22
That is the identifier that
is listed on this task log.
20
21
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge, assumes facts not in evidence.
18
19
And the item being backed up here is
gov.law.aera.standards.1999?
16
17
This is associated with the
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
And this is a backup task log?
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
23
knowledge, assumes facts not in evidence, and
24
argumentative.
25
THE WITNESS:
The command listed for this
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task log is bup.php which is a backup task.
2
MR. HUDIS:
3
VIDEO OPERATOR:
4
Off the record.
The time 12:12 p.m.
We
are off the record.
5
(Brief recess.)
6
(Plaintiffs' Exhibit 9 marked for
7
identification.)
8
VIDEO OPERATOR:
9
and we are on the record.
10
11
The time is 12:20 p.m.,
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
Mr. Butler, I'd like you to refer back to
12
Exhibit 7.
13
command that says, "make_dark.php."
14
And you see at the very top, there's a
Do you see that?
15
A.
Yes.
16
Q.
What does the make_dark command do?
17
18
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
19
THE WITNESS:
20
from public access.
21
Make_dark takes down files
MR. HUDIS:
22
23
Q.
marked as Exhibit 9.
24
25
I'd like you to now look at what has been
What is this one-page exhibit?
A.
This exhibit is a log for a task
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associated with the item with identifier
2
gov.law.aera.standards.1999.
3
Q.
And what is the command being run as
4
reflected in this log of Exhibit 9 which bears task
5
ID 315793300?
6
7
8
9
10
A.
make_dark.php.
Q.
When we looked at the commands and tasks
of Exhibit 8, you saw that the commands were being
run on multiple servers, correct?
11
12
The command listed in this task log is
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge, and assumes facts not in evidence.
13
THE WITNESS:
I saw that there were
14
different server addresses listed in -- throughout
15
the task -- throughout the various tasks associated
16
with this item.
17
18
19
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
And the task of Exhibit 9, 315793300, on
how many servers was this task run?
20
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
21
knowledge, assumes facts not in evidence, vague and
22
ambiguous.
23
24
25
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
According to this tag, there is one server
identified.
Do you see it?
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MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
2
knowledge, assumes facts not in evidence, and
3
argumentative.
4
MR. HUDIS:
5
Q.
And you see that the server is ia600500?
6
MS. LU:
7
MR. HUDIS:
Objection, vague and ambiguous.
8
Q.
You may answer.
9
A.
I see that an address for a server is
10
listed in this task log with the server name of
11
ia600500.
12
13
Q.
Do you see any other servers listed on
this log of Exhibit 9?
14
A.
I see a listing associated with a backup
15
server near the bottom with server address
16
ia700500.us.archive.org.
17
Q.
So do you know if the make_dark command
18
was being run, according this log, on one server or
19
two?
20
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
21
knowledge, and vague and ambiguous.
22
facts not in evidence.
23
THE WITNESS:
And assumes
The item -- the task log
24
states that the item is being synchronized to the
25
backup server.
I would associate that with the --
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content on Exhibit 6 was there and then the content
2
in Exhibit 10 is gone?
3
MS. LU:
4
MR. HUDIS:
5
Q.
6
7
Replaced by the placeholder?
MS. LU:
Objection, assumes facts not in
evidence, and calls for speculation.
8
9
Objection --
THE WITNESS:
Typically, when the
placeholder message is displayed on a page that
10
previously displayed a live item, it is an
11
indication that the item has been taken down.
12
13
14
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
command?
15
16
And is that the result of a make_dark
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
knowledge.
17
THE WITNESS:
18
make_dark command.
19
It can be the result of a
make_dark command.
20
21
Uh -- it can be the result of a
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
Do you know whether the change of the live
22
content of Exhibit 6 and then the placeholder that
23
says this item is not available of Exhibit 10
24
resulted from the make_dark command shown in log
25
315793300 of Exhibit 9?
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MS. LU:
Objection, vague and ambiguous,
2
assumes facts not in evidence and lack of personal
3
knowledge.
4
THE WITNESS:
I can state that this is the
5
message and this is how I would expect the page to
6
appear following the submission of a make_dark
7
command for a live item.
8
9
10
MR. HUDIS:
Note that the witness is
pointing to Exhibit 10.
Q.
On Exhibit 10, who, if you know, inserted
11
the language "The item is not available due to
12
issues with the item's content"?
13
14
MS. AHMAD:
Objection, outside the scope
of the deposition topics.
15
MR. HUDIS:
16
MS. LU:
17
MR. HUDIS:
18
Counsel.
19
I would disagree with that.
And lack of personal knowledge.
I would disagree with that,
objections.
20
21
22
Public Resource's counsel can assert her
So I'll reask the question subject to all
objections.
Q.
Do you know who inserted the language in
23
Exhibit 10, "The item is not available due to
24
issues with the item's content"?
25
THE WITNESS:
This is a placeholder
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message that was determined years ago.
2
know who drafted that message and selected it.
3
It's the general message that is displayed on an
4
item's page after a make_dark command has been
5
submitted for that item.
6
MR. HUDIS:
7
VIDEO OPERATOR:
8
I don't
Off the record.
The time is 12:41 p.m.
and we are off the record.
9
(Discussion off the record.)
10
(Plaintiffs' Exhibit 11 marked for
11
identification.)
12
VIDEO OPERATOR:
13
The time is 12:42 p.m.,
and we are on the record.
14
MR. HUDIS:
15
Q.
Mr. Butler, once content is taken down
16
from an Internet Archive web page from public
17
access, can your company still track the number of
18
visits to that page while the content was still
19
there?
20
MS. LU:
21
THE WITNESS:
Objection, vague and ambiguous.
The record that we have
22
is -- is called a download count and relates to the
23
number of visits to -- to pages with files for the
24
item.
25
number of HTTP requests from -- from an IP address
So it's our -- it's our best record of the
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where multiple visits from the same IP address in
2
the same day have been counted as one download.
3
MR. HUDIS:
4
5
Q.
Mr. Butler, have you ever heard of the
term "hit count"?
6
A.
Yes.
7
Q.
What does "hit count" refer to?
8
A.
Hit count --
9
10
MS. LU:
Objection to the extent it calls
for expert testimony.
11
MR. HUDIS:
12
Q.
You may answer.
13
A.
Hit count, as I understand it, relates to
14
the amount of visits to a given web page.
15
Q.
So we've talked about today a number of
16
views, a number of downloads, correct, to a web
17
page?
18
A.
19
20
MS. LU:
23
Objection, misstates prior
testimony.
21
22
Yes.
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
A.
You may answer.
We've talked about the definition of our
24
download count number and discussed a little bit
25
how that relates to downloading and viewing.
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2
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
So your company defines download count.
3
Does the download count distinguish between an
4
Internet user's view of a page versus capturing and
5
copying content to go to another computer?
6
MS. LU:
7
THE WITNESS:
Objection, vague and ambiguous.
The download count does not
8
distinguish between, for example, a visit to a web
9
page without, for instance, saving that file
10
through the -- a browser's downloader or selecting
11
files' save-as from the browser.
12
13
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
Does Internet Archive's download count
14
distinguish between visits from human beings over
15
the Internet versus Internet crawling robots, or
16
bots, or uploaders, or internal visits from
17
Internet Archive processes or staff?
18
MS. LU:
19
THE WITNESS:
Objection, vague and ambiguous.
No.
The download count does
20
not distinguish between all of those different
21
types of access.
22
23
24
25
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
For the purposes of my next question, I
need your definition of what an IP address is.
A.
Okay.
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Q.
2
What is an IP address?
MS. LU:
Objection, to the extent it calls
3
for expert testimony.
4
THE WITNESS:
What I know about an
5
IP address is that it is a unique number associated
6
with a computer that is connected to a network.
7
8
9
10
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
Does Internet Archive's download count
include or exclude multiple visits from the same
IP address during a given day?
11
MS. LU:
12
THE WITNESS:
Objection, vague and ambiguous.
During a day, as defined by
13
UTC time, Internet Archive's systems are designed
14
to log multiple visits from the same IP -- count,
15
excuse me, count multiple visits from the same
16
IP address as only one download.
17
18
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
Does Internet Archive maintain any records
19
or other information that would enable it to be
20
more specific about what is included or excluded
21
from a download count?
22
MS. LU:
23
THE WITNESS:
24
25
Objection, vague and ambiguous.
Can you read the question
again, please?
MR. HUDIS:
Yes.
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Q.
Does Internet Archive maintain any records
2
or other information that would enable it to be
3
more specific about what is included or excluded
4
from a download count?
5
MS. LU:
6
7
THE WITNESS:
I'm not aware of any further
information that we would be able to supply.
8
9
Same objection.
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
How does Internet Archive obtain the
10
download count of a specific web page after the
11
uploaded content is removed?
12
MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
13
knowledge, assumes facts not in evidence.
14
if you want to ask him about how someone retrieved
15
this Exhibit 11, then I would not object to that.
16
17
Counsel,
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
All right.
I'm going to ask you
18
specifically about Exhibit 11.
19
generally how the information was obtained.
20
I'd like to know
We've established that a make_dark command
21
was run for the content of the 1999 standards in
22
June of 2014, correct?
23
24
25
MS. LU:
Objection, misstates prior
testimony, lack of personal knowledge.
MR. HUDIS:
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2
Q.
When was this make_dark command of
Exhibit 9 run?
3
A.
The date listed on the task log for this
4
task which has a command listed of make_dark.php is
5
June 11th, 2014.
6
7
Q.
document that's in front of you.
8
What is the date of this document?
9
10
I've now marked as Exhibit 11 a one-page
A.
The date of Exhibit 11 is November 25th,
2014.
11
Q.
What is this document?
12
A.
This document is a screen capture of the
13
Mac Terminal application.
14
myself to submit a query to archive.org's systems
15
to obtain archive.org's records for the download
16
count for the item with identifier gov.law.aera
17
.standards.1999.
18
Q.
The Terminal was used by
The make_dark command of Exhibit 9
19
associated with that identifier was run in June of
20
2014, correct?
21
A.
The task log lists that date -- the task
22
log associated with the make_dark command lists
23
that date.
24
25
Q.
And the same identifier you got at a
download -- a set of download information on
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November 25th, 2014, according to Exhibit 11,
2
correct?
3
MS. LU:
4
THE WITNESS:
5
Objection, vague and ambiguous.
Sorry, one more time,
please.
6
MR. HUDIS:
7
Q.
Yes.
We established that make_dark command for
8
gov.law.aera.standards.1999 was run in June of
9
2014, correct?
10
11
MS. LU:
knowledge.
12
13
THE WITNESS:
16
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
So you got download information for the
same identifier on November 25th, 2014, correct?
17
MS. LU:
18
THE WITNESS:
19
22
23
Objection, vague and ambiguous.
I ran a query for Internet
Archive's download count for that same identifier.
20
21
The task logs list that
date.
14
15
Objection, lack of personal
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
So I now ask the same question that I
asked before.
How does Internet Archive obtain a
24
download count for a specific Internet Archive web
25
page after the uploaded content has been removed?
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MS. LU:
Objection, lack of personal
2
knowledge, misstates prior testimony, and assumes
3
facts not in evidence, and vague and ambiguous.
4
THE WITNESS:
A SQL query can be run on
5
Internet Archive's system to obtain a metadata
6
value that has been associated with this item and
7
generated by archive.org.
8
9
10
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
And the item again is gov.law.aera
.standards.1999?
11
A.
That's correct.
12
Q.
And according to your search and the
13
results that came back on Exhibit 11, how many
14
downloads are reflected for this item while live
15
content was up on the web page associated with
16
gov.law.aera.standards.1999?
17
MS. LU:
Objection, vague and ambiguous,
18
assumes facts not in evidence, lack of personal
19
knowledge.
20
THE WITNESS:
The download count of record
21
from the archive.org system for the identifier that
22
you read is 1,290.
23
MR. HUDIS:
Counsel, will you stipulate
24
that Exhibit 11 is a business record of Internet
25
Archive?
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MS. AHMAD:
Yes.
2
MR. HUDIS:
Any objections?
3
MS. LU:
4
(Plaintiffs' Exhibit 12 marked for
5
identification.)
6
MR. HUDIS:
7
No objections.
I'm going to have to make a
quick copy.
8
VIDEO OPERATOR:
9
MR. HUDIS:
10
11
Do you want to go off?
Yes, please.
VIDEO OPERATOR:
The time is 12:54 p.m,
and we're off the record.
12
(Brief recess.)
13
VIDEO OPERATOR:
14
and we're on the record.
15
16
17
MR. HUDIS:
Q.
Mr. Butler, all of my following questions
are all relative to the 1999 standards.
18
19
The time is 12:58 p.m.,
Do we understand each other for purposes
of these questions?
20
A.
Yes.
21
Q.
Between May of 2012 and June of 2014, have
22
you ever communicated with Carl Malamud?
23
A.
I have received e-mail from Carl Malamud.
24
Q.
So that was my next question.
25
Mr. Malamud initiated the communication?
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A.
Yes.
2
Q.
And how did he make that contact?
3
e-mail?
4
A.
Yes.
5
Q.
Besides that one e-mail, on the subject of
By
6
the 1999 standards, did you have any other exchange
7
of communications with Mr. Malamud?
8
MS. LU:
9
MR. HUDIS:
Objection, relevance.
10
Q.
You may answer.
11
A.
No.
12
Q.
Are you aware of anyone else from Internet
13
Archive communicating with Mr. Malamud regarding
14
the 1999 standards between May of 2012 and June of
15
2014?
16
A.
No.
17
Q.
Do you remember the purpose of
18
Mr. Malamud's communication with you regarding the
19
1999 standards?
20
MS. LU:
21
MR. HUDIS:
Objection, vague and ambiguous.
22
Q.
You may answer.
23
A.
Mr. Malamud sent me an e-mail with an
24
attachment relating to a take-down request that he
25
had received relating to the standards.
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