Another interesting article from the Guardian. There was recently a case in Scotland where a guy called William Beggs brutally murdered and dismembered a teenager, dumping the remains in to Loch Lomond. Nasty stuff. He had actually been sentenced to life for something similar about a decade previously, but then released on a technicality. Now of course there was quite a lot of stuff in the newspapers at the time about this.

When Beggs went to trial last year, the judge ruled that while anyone could look at paper copies of those earlier news story by going to the library, any newspaper that made their archives available electronically over the Internet would run the risk of being in contempt. The Judge was of the opinion that whilst a printed newspaper was printed once only, an electronic copy was effectively republished everytime someone accessed it.