[twblalock]

It's not even selling fancy cameras. It's reviews of digital cameras that are all either obsolete or about to be. Much of the data is only of historical interest.

Amazon is not running a charity or a public library. It's foolish to expect them to run a site like this forever. If the original owners wanted this to be preserved they should have sold it to someone who contractually agreed to preserve it, or donated it to the Internet Archive or something.

Besides, the old stuff should all be free from archive.org, right?

[celsoazevedo]

The Archive Team is planning to archive the site. It should end up on the Wayback Machine:

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/DPReview

[ghaff]

The Wayback Machine seems to be well-populated with content from the site. (And one suspects Amazon knew that the site was already being preserved in this manner.)

e.g. https://web.archive.org/web/20230201053243/https://www.dprev...

[MDGeist]

True that a lot of the content is only of historical value, but wouldn't it potentially be in amazon's interest to keep the site going to keep covering new things that amazon is actively selling? They could have just killed off old content after a certain date.

[mullingitover]

I definitely spent thousands on Amazon after reading reviews on dpreview. The affiliate money alone should’ve been more than enough to keep the site running.

After this I am firmly determined never to spend a cent on cameras at Amazon.