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I also have a personal gripe with the Wayback Machine; there is absolutely no way to get something removed once they archive it (despite the data including acci

I also have a personal gripe with the Wayback Machine; there is absolutely no way to get something removed once they archive it (despite the data including accidentally leaked PII for example - which can cause actual harm to someone). Not only do they ignore robots.txt, they ignored all emails sent to info@archive.org from the actual domain in question which I owned, with a link to a URL on the domain asking them to remove it. I can understand wanting to preserve some large website's article that is of public interest but this is just malicious / dangerous. It took me 2 years and working with a lawyer friend to draft a DMCA request to finally have them remove the content.

account42 2y ago
> It took me 2 years and working with a lawyer friend to draft a DMCA request to finally have them remove the content. It took you two years and a lawyer to literally fill out a form? If anything, the IA removes too much content and should only do the minimum required by law (and fight it even there where possible).
- gigel82 2y ago
  What form? There is no form. I just sent emails into the void per their request for more than a year: https://help.archive.org/help/how-do-i-request-to-remove-something-from-archive-org-2/ https://help.archive.org/help/how-do-i-request-to-remove-som... After nothing worked I had to draft an official legal letter, which also took several months to get acted on.