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Re:I've mothballed my blog by FireBringer on Monday September 30, 2013 @04:06PM (#6472008)
I think they work off of current robots.txt so if you purchase a domain name update the robots.txt to not allow archive.org they delete the entire history.

Which sucks in an archival perspective.

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Re:I've mothballed my blog by JoshTriplett on Monday September 30, 2013 @04:25PM (#6472128)
Yeah, they really ought to work from the version of robots.txt archived along with a given snapshot. If the legal owner of the content wants it taken down, they can submit an explicit request for that.
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