Seems to be a logical next step for Google to start archiving selected message boards like board reader does. The huge information resource that is the SDMB is effectively closed to net search engines.
Is there any reason why this would be a bad idea or legally unworkable?
The rights to the posts on this board are owned by the Chicago Reader as a compilation copyright. Google would have to ask permission of the Chicago Reader to do this – and would have to do so for every BBS they archive.