Spain Orders Blocks on Archive.today and Its Mirrors
3 hours ago
- Spain's Ministry of Culture's Intellectual Property Commission ordered the blocking of several Archive.today domains, including Archive.is, Archive.ph, and Archive.li.
- Spanish internet users attempting to access these domains are redirected to a government page accusing them of facilitating illegal access to copyrighted content and warning of criminal activity.
- The blocking is an administrative decision, not a court ruling, initiated by an unnamed rights holder complaint.
- This follows a 2021 protocol allowing ISPs to block mirror sites within 24 hours of notice from a Technical Committee.
- Archive.today is a web archiving tool used by researchers and journalists to preserve snapshots of altered or paywalled content.