Re: End of the Patry Copyright Blog

On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Elizabeth Stark <emstark <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> Despite its (semi-)availability on the wayback machine, I'm a bit shocked
> that he deleted his archives! It's one thing to stop blogging, but another
> to delete your entire history of doing so. In the field of law and
> technology scholarship we often rely on sources like these (i.e. we dealt
> with a lot of citations to blog posts on the Journal of Law and Technology),
> and the potential for them to disappear like that is rather haunting...

He is considering re-posting the archives, according to a comment he
left on his last post.  He also explains his rationale for removing
the archives:

William Patry said...

"[...] I will think about the archive point; I deleted prior posts
because leaving them up meant subjecting myself to the same
misunderstandings that led me to close the blog. And even for this
last post, one attracts trolls. [...]"

Denver