Sorry to say, archive.org is under a ddos attack. The data is not affected, but most services are unavailable.
We are working on it & will post updates in comments.
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I think it depends on the circumstances. I work for a publisher and submitted a request for one of my clients copyrighted books to be removed from the archive, and they took it down the same day.
What kind of dick smack attacks the internet archive!!!
Copyright holders.
The same people that harass librarians and burn books en masse, is my first guess.
Gimme an M !!!
“M” !!!
Gimme an A !!!
A !!!
Gimme a G !!
G
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Magneto!
Magneto could just erase all the magnetic hard drives.
And “Bingo” was his name!
People that dont want their history revealed
No idea. Hope not
Don’t they honour deletion requests
I think it depends on the circumstances. I work for a publisher and submitted a request for one of my clients copyrighted books to be removed from the archive, and they took it down the same day.
Yes but I believe the requests themselves are actually publicly available knowledge.
I don’t think so, reading their terms.