A couple of years ago,
I announced my service for saving Peeep.us web pages (like web.archive.org or google cache, only upon request). The functionality of the service was already causing discussions of the ethics and legality of data storage, which were deleted by the source. Anyway, Peeep successfully existed for two years, and I, frankly, stopped paying attention to him. Unless Google paid 7 cents a week for data storage. And sometimes deleted pages with child porn, crying about themselves in the statistics.
However, recently representatives of a certain
Mikhail Dvornikov wrote to me demanding to delete the
preserved ancient article of the newspaper Gazeta and promised to sue. The article looks quite harmless. They write that such and such is running for election, that a criminal case has been filed against him, that checks are underway - in short, I have not found any extremism, porn or other direct violations of the law and ignored the letter.
What was my surprise when these distinguished gentlemen called me on my mobile. According to them, they are quite seriously determined to
destroy all references to Mr. Dvornikov and his company EAA Asset Management-Consulting GmbH on the Internet . The seriousness of these people made me wonder if I would have to

run away from some

.
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So, dear habourians, how much do you think the web archive is responsible for the information that is stored there? And how realistic is it to make me accountable for libel in this case or make me compensate for damage to business reputation? Under the cut will be links on the subject of history.
- They promise to judge me by art. 152 of the Civil Code (“Protecting honor, dignity and business reputation”) and Article 129 of the Criminal Code (“Slander”).
- Not a single court decision that in this article slander was not provided to me and I did not find it on the Internet.
- These people made similar claims to Yandex [Izvestia] about the cache, but the claimant refused the claim [arbitr.ru] , and the court refused to satisfy the [roem] requirements .
- Also, the most detailed biographies of Mr. Dvornikov are still on the Lenta.ru websites, also Lenta , Kommersant , Compromising Information , and other compromising materials .
- The source of the article, the newspaper Gazeta , stopped work for an ominous “unknown reason” .
Is it possible to hold a library or an archive accountable for storing and distributing newspaper issues where slander is printed (even proven and recognized)? Is it possible to consider a web archive, cache search engine etc as some library?