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I'm not sure I understand this. Just because I buy/sell a domain in 2014, that doesn't give me the right to retroactively change what was there in 2007. Would
by polynomial 12y ago
I'm not sure I understand this. Just because I buy/sell a domain in 2014, that doesn't give me the right to retroactively change what was there in 2007.
Would like to hear more about the basis for such a policy, whose only use case seems like censorship of the past, which Archive is clearly not aligned with.
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- maxerickson 12y agoSpeculating on motivations, they are resource constrained. Spending resources keeping thousands of pages available to the public is a reasonable tradeoff vs entering/inviting a protracted legal battle. As far as the mechanics of it, they follow a policy that explicitly recommends respecting robots.txt: https://archive.org/about/faqs.php#Rights https://archive.org/about/faqs.php#Rights http://www2.sims.berkeley.edu/research/conferences/aps/removal-policy.html http://www2.sims.berkeley.edu/research/conferences/aps/remov...