Why major news sites are blocking the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine
- Apr 16
- 1 min read
FORBES — “This effort is not about specifically blocking the Internet Archive,” USA Today Co. spokesperson Lark-Marie Anton told Wired, describing it instead as part of the company’s broader effort to block all scraping bots.
“The issue is that Times content on the Internet Archive is being used by AI companies in violation of copyright law to directly compete with us,” New York Times spokesperson Graham James told Wired, declining to clarify whether this referred to documented violations or a hypothetical concern.
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