The FBI Is Targeting the Popular Anti-Paywall Site Archive.Today ...Middle East

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The site is similar to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, but is intended more for immediate short term access rather than maintaining a longterm record. As opposed to the Internet Archive's methodical web crawlers, Archive.Today's work quickly in response to user requests, but don't make any promises to keep website snapshots around in the future. Essentially, while the Wayback Machine is intended as a way to see how a website used to look like, Archive.Today is more about seeing how a website looks right now.

It's unclear why the site is being targeted

While the FBI's subpoena doesn't reveal the exact reason for the request, it does say it "relates to a federal criminal investigation being conducted by the FBI." Given Archive.Today's potential to skirt paywalls, and similar crackdowns on tools like 12ft.io, it's possible the investigation has to do with copyright infringement.

The site is still up, for now

In the meantime, Archive.Today (as well as mirrors like Archive.is) remains operational, and has not made a statement on the matter aside from posting the subpoena PDF to X, alongside the word "canary." Previously, the site's owner has said that they doesn't give guarantees that it will remain operational indefinitely, and that "it is an overly optimistic assumption that there will be no risks [to the archive] before I die." Perhaps the idea is that the subpoena is a canary in a coal mine?

The subpoena follows news that Google has delisted 749 million URLs for literary piracy website Anna's Archive. Together, they point to an internet that might be about to get far more strict about respecting copyright.

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