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I know websites (and some of my clients) who are actually actively REMOVING copies of their website from the Internet Archive. There's a specific process for g

I know websites (and some of my clients) who are actually actively REMOVING copies of their website from the Internet Archive. There's a specific process for getting all of the content removed, and asking them to not archive the website. For some ecommerce websites, they're removing copies from Internet Archive because there's pricing data that's getting archived. I've also had clients remove copies because they've had a big problem with scrapers who are scraping the copies of the site in Internet Archive. They've been able to (mostly) stop scrapers on the site, but having archived copies of the site allows scrapers to scrape the Internet Archive.

hotnfresh 3y ago
Heh. What’s nuts is that, stripped of other copyright-bearing context, it’s my understanding that they’d not have a (legal, but policy, maybe) leg to stand on asking for pricing data to be removed. That’s supposed to be free (as in freedom) to anyone who finds a way to get ahold of it. Sucks that they’re killing the entire archive over something they have no actual claim to.
- bhartzer 3y ago
  I agree, now that you pointed it out, there probably isn't a legal leg to stand on. IANAL, though--would be interested in hearing from an attorney about that. Regardless, if you can prove you're the website owner, then Internet Archive will remove all of your content and stop archiving your site if you ask them.
  - hotnfresh 3y ago
    Right, by IA policy they can ask to have the site taken down. What’s unfortunate about it is that they’re doing it over data that they aren’t supposed to be able to restrict, and the rest of the site (which I doubt they much mind being on IA) is caught in the crossfire, as the means by which they’re getting the part they care about taken down. Like, they probably wouldn’t bother except that the archive happens to contain data that isn’t supposed to be restricable anyway but de facto is, if they take the whole archive of the site down.

hotnfresh 3y ago

Heh. What’s nuts is that, stripped of other copyright-bearing context, it’s my understanding that they’d not have a (legal, but policy, maybe) leg to stand on asking for pricing data to be removed. That’s supposed to be free (as in freedom) to anyone who finds a way to get ahold of it. Sucks that they’re killing the entire archive over something they have no actual claim to.

bhartzer 3y ago
I agree, now that you pointed it out, there probably isn't a legal leg to stand on. IANAL, though--would be interested in hearing from an attorney about that. Regardless, if you can prove you're the website owner, then Internet Archive will remove all of your content and stop archiving your site if you ask them.
- hotnfresh 3y ago
  Right, by IA policy they can ask to have the site taken down. What’s unfortunate about it is that they’re doing it over data that they aren’t supposed to be able to restrict, and the rest of the site (which I doubt they much mind being on IA) is caught in the crossfire, as the means by which they’re getting the part they care about taken down. Like, they probably wouldn’t bother except that the archive happens to contain data that isn’t supposed to be restricable anyway but de facto is, if they take the whole archive of the site down.