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They didn't lose anything. Content excluded in this manner is only made inaccessible to the public, not deleted from the archive. They can change their policy r

• patmcguire 10y ago
  It may be possible technically. I doubt it's possible in reality: they've probably made promises to a bunch of people over the years that this is how it works. People furious that Their Content is appearing somewhere else and go straight into lawyers on the first email.
  • Chaebixi 10y ago
    > It may be possible technically. I doubt it's possible in reality: they've probably made promises to a bunch of people over the years that this is how it works. People furious that Their Content is appearing somewhere else and go straight into lawyers on the first email. They won't be furious when they're dead. I think the main value of the Internet Archive is not so much in the near term, but in the long term. I hope in the future they enact some policy that ignores any robots.txt for scrapes older than, say, 50 years.