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IIRC, a (current) robots.txt retroactively will remove public access to the Archive. RIP.
by firloop 10y ago
IIRC, a (current) robots.txt retroactively will remove public access to the Archive. RIP.
- AnonymousPlanet 10y agoThis annoys me to no end. It basically means that you can retroactively censor content by buying a domain that was parked for 10 years and then remove the old content with one little robots.txt. All of this regardless of the wishes of the original creators.
- vanderZwan 10y agoWill it also delete the content?
- userbinator 10y agoI remember reading that they don't actually delete anything, even if served DMCA notices --- they just remove access to it, with the justification being that laws may change and one day allow access again. Makes sense for an archive, I guess.
- vanderZwan 10y agoAh good, so there still is hope :)