TL;DR It’s copyright.
Apparently the archive’s crawlers have been able to access material that is paywalled in a regular browser and that’s got copyright holders’ panties in a bunch.
Naturally the rights holder failing to properly secure their shit is everyone else’s problem.
Fuck ‘em (the people paywalling stuff).
There’s plenty of fuck 'em to go around here.
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Fuck the people paywalling stuff
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Fuck archive.today for all the shady shit they’ve pulled
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Fuck Spain for blocking archive.today, it’s still a very useful resource despite the shady shit.
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Specifically, in order to protect paywalls, not because Archive.Today did anything nefarious.
Because freedom is not profitable.
OK Spain. Instead of Archive.today what about those AI companies? I heard they used copyright material…
