death - web properties

he has the idea about this for sometime now.

what happens to one's web contents when one passes away? is there any web will that one can make? how to trigger the will?

you can set up a webpage(webwill). the registered will-maker have to
1. put down his real name, and other particulars
2. put down the person he want to be his "beneficiary"
3. put down other people he wants them to know, what he has done in the net
4. put down all the websites, user id's, nikcs, passwords.
5. put down the instruction he wants his beneficiary to do with the websites/contents
6. put down his "frens" that he wants to inform of his demise
7. write his own obituary

question : do you trust this website to give them your userid's, nicks and passwords?
ans: since you already trusted websites that have your emails, etc, so why not one more website?

will trigger:
1. the webwiller has to check in this website at least once in certain period(determined by webwiller)
2. if he did not check in within that period, webwill will send out an email to his designated email account to ping his presence. if within one week, no reply, send another one, send one more if no reply. by by the third email. no reply, will release his personal web property info to the beneficiary and inform all the rest of his frens of his demise.
3. also put an obituary on the webwill page.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - When you die, does your Facebook account die with you? Or that online photo album? What about your iTunes playlist, blogs or tweets?

Laws in the United States and elsewhere are vague on the fate of digital rights to online accounts after death, leading to complications and legal wrangling for survivors who want access to the online services of the deceased.

Legal experts say it's unclear who owns what in the Internet 'cloud', and that in some cases the user agreement for email or social networking sites terminates when a person dies.

In the case of online photo albums, 'those photos are yours and you have a copyright, but the problem is if you upload them to a site like Shutterfly, the property you own is now stuck behind a licence', said Nathan Dosch, a Wisconsin attorney specialising in estate planning.