It's hosted in Russia I think.
There are a lot of pirate content sites in Russia. I remember one circa 2002 that would let you download MP3's, Ogg's and other music files by the gigabyte.
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Ask HN: Why doesn't archive.today get shut down?
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Re: Ask HN: Why doesn't archive.today get shut down?
#12Sometimes I wonder why people don't have the foresight to reserve posts like this for their personal thoughts. Don't ruin a good thing with speculation of its demise.
Re: Ask HN: Why doesn't archive.today get shut down?
#13There have been attempts to block it, that's why it has so many domain names. I think one of the earlier ones was archive.it, but it no longer goes there.
Re: Ask HN: Why doesn't archive.today get shut down?
#14Why would it get shut down? Companies like Google and Cloudflare do the same thing with AMP based re-hosting of websites without consent. Some site signs up for AMP for it's domain, then any links from that site to other 3rd party sites get sucked up by Google/Cloudflare and re-hosted as an AMP site on their servers without the 3rd party site getting hits from the actual people clicking links. Re-hosting is not a cri…
Wait, what? So I can run a NYTimes2ElectricBugaloo.com without permission and not get into trouble? That... can't be right.
Re: Ask HN: Why doesn't archive.today get shut down?
#15Why would it get shut down? Companies like Google and Cloudflare do the same thing with AMP based re-hosting of websites without consent. Some site signs up for AMP for it's domain, then any links from that site to other 3rd party sites get sucked up by Google/Cloudflare and re-hosted as an AMP site on their servers without the 3rd party site getting hits from the actual people clicking links. Re-hosting is not a cri…
> Re-hosting is not a crime
Depends on the jurisdiction, but copyright-infringement usually is a crime.
Re: Ask HN: Why doesn't archive.today get shut down?
#16Why would it get shut down? Companies like Google and Cloudflare do the same thing with AMP based re-hosting of websites without consent. Some site signs up for AMP for it's domain, then any links from that site to other 3rd party sites get sucked up by Google/Cloudflare and re-hosted as an AMP site on their servers without the 3rd party site getting hits from the actual people clicking links. Re-hosting is not a cri…
Wait, what? So I can run a NYTimes2ElectricBugaloo.com without permission and not get into trouble? That... can't be right.
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Re: Ask HN: Why doesn't archive.today get shut down?
#17My local newspaper will issue copyright takedowns on Reddit when they see archive.org links to their articles. They are owned by McClatchy so I assume this applies to all McClatchy newspapers.
archive.org is the wayback machine
archive.today is another archive website that somewhat flies under the radar.
first rule of archive.today club is you don't talk about archive.today club.
Re: Ask HN: Why doesn't archive.today get shut down?
#18If a news site wants customers to pay for the content, then they should put it behind a walled garden and not paywalls which only apply to certain used-agents and IPs.
Re: Ask HN: Why doesn't archive.today get shut down?
#19To the best of my admittedly limited knowledge on the subject, they're relatively new so most news sites aren't terribly aware of them yet, and most people aren't technology-savvy enough to be aware of their existence and ability to make use of them outside circles like ours here on HN and related occupations/sites/etc. That said, they're also not doing anything shady to get by the paywall either. The version they're…
Wikipedia says they have been around since 2012 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today My guess is that people in the media are pretty aware of how to bypass paywalls because they have to do it to do their jobs (it used to be you could log into most of them with "media/media"; even The New York Times admits that reporters don't get paid enough to afford subscriptions to all of the newspapers that they need to us…
Most "paywalls" can be bypassed with a clear-cookies or incognito window. They're not actually strong walls, they just want to be annoying enough that some people signup.
Re: Ask HN: Why doesn't archive.today get shut down?
#20If a news site wants customers to pay for the content, then they should put it behind a walled garden and not paywalls which only apply to certain used-agents and IPs.
Why? Do people not have the freedom to give things for free to those they choose?