New York Times Doesn’t Want Its Stories Archived
theintercept.com
The New York Times blocked a bot that had given the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine huge troves of websites.
  • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m all in favor of keeping an audit trail for newspapers, so they can be on record if they write a “Hitler the 2nd seems like a bang-up candidate” article. But I’m wondering if their reason for this was to restrict people from reading the archived articles to get around their paywall.

    • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      That might be true with some other publications, but New York Times gives an ability to create a sharable link for their premium subscribers, which makes it availalbe to everyone with that link.