The documents in the directories iowaconsumercase.org/ and
www.iowaconsumercase.org/ were downloaded from
http://iowaconsumercase.org and http://www.iowaconsumercase.org through
the use of 'wget', over the course of several days via dialup (28800)
connection. The PDF documents and text documents are part of the public
record in the case of Comes v. Microsoft. It is not so certain that the
HTML files retrieved from those websites are a part of the record, so
those files do not appear in this archive.

Note that anything appearing outside of the directories
iowaconsumercase.org/ and www.iowaconsumercase.org are not part of the
archive from the Comes v. Microsoft case websites. The documents in
those two directories may be freely copied. (This README.txt and
wget-log.tar.gz may also be freely copied, but neither file came from
either Iowa case website).

The only evidence I can offer that these documents, in fact, came from
those Iowa case websites is my log of the wget retrieval. That is
available in this directory as 'wget-log.tar.gz' and is also not part of
the archive.

The intent of mirroring the websites was to have a local copy for
reading. Shortly after the mirroring completed, the Iowa plaintiffs
settled and the Iowa websites were password protected. It was not clear
at the time whether it was permissible to republish the documents
elsewhere, nor was there any indication the documents might be yanked
out of public reach on the web. This is why I did not take the faster
route of using my hosting service's very much higher bandwidth to mirror
directly to my website from the Iowa websites. When the password
protection blocked public view of the documents, I started the slow
process of uploading my mirror to my website. 

These documents should be mirrored widely, as-is; they should not
require that interested parties obtain printed copies directly from the
Iowa court.

-- "grouch"
http://edge-op.org/iowa/
2007-02-26