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by justinclift 769 days ago
That's super bizarre. I manually verified that the url worked after I archived it.

I wonder if the do some kind of DCMA thing automatically for urls on their website, to have them removed from the wayback machine?

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Yeah it's working now, very weird indeed.

DCMA would not work here since they are hosting a copy of it for archival purposes, and not claiming copyright. The original public URL is included.

Archive.org does respect robots.txt tho. It is possible to completely delete a site's history on Archive.org by modifying the robots.txt (at least in the past, not sure if that is the case now)

Wow. I tested the link after your comment and it was broken for me at that time as well.

So the link really does seem to have flip-flopped between working and non-working a few times.

Sound like some kind of weirdness in the archive.org infrastructure might be causing it.

It's working now!