Re:The People Behind the Wayback Machine
by Springtime on Sunday June 01, 2014 @02:26AM
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>will there come a day when the right to be forgotten will extend to archive.org?
Sites can at any time opt out of being archived via a robots.txt exclusion (IA still keep their previous archives privately). However for public blogging sites operated by a third-party that's another matter.
Re:The People Behind the Wayback Machine
by ewillbefull on Sunday June 01, 2014 @11:16AM
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The right to be forgotten is way different than a robots.txt file...
The "right to be forgotten" ruling was new because it talked about _linking to_ stuff. But Archive Team and the Internet Archive both make actual copies, so they are covered by copyright. If your friend want his Posterous posts gone he can serve an DMCA notice on them.
But I know that the owner of days posterous page had no intent on keeping the page a going concern, and was happy to see it disposed of. In light of the recent Google "right to be forgotten" ruling, will there come a day when the right to be forgotten will extend to archive.org?