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Re:Internet Archive loses appeal over eBook lending by gigel82 on Thursday September 05, 2024 @09:32AM (#41456479)
I also have a personal gripe with the Wayback Machine; there is absolutely no way to get something removed once they archive it (despite the data including accidentally leaked PII for example - which can cause actual harm to someone).

Not only do they ignore robots.txt, they ignored all emails sent to [email protected] from the actual domain in question which I owned, with a link to a URL on the domain asking them to remove it.

I can understand wanting to preserve some large website's article that is of public interest but this is just malicious / dangerous. It took me 2 years and working with a lawyer friend to draft a DMCA request to finally have them remove the content.

Re:Internet Archive loses appeal over eBook lending by account42 on Friday September 06, 2024 @06:11AM (#41464650)
> It took me 2 years and working with a lawyer friend to draft a DMCA request to finally have them remove the content.

It took you two years and a lawyer to literally fill out a form?

If anything, the IA removes too much content and should only do the minimum required by law (and fight it even there where possible).

Re:Internet Archive loses appeal over eBook lending by gigel82 on Friday September 06, 2024 @09:35AM (#41466074)
What form? There is no form.

I just sent emails into the void per their request for more than a year: https://help.archive.org/help/how-do-i-request-to-remove-som...

After nothing worked I had to draft an official legal letter, which also took several months to get acted on.