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Wayback Machine Defends Access Amid Scraping Concerns
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Mark Graham, Director of the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive, responds to recent reports that The Guardian, The New York Times, and Reddit are restricting Wayback access over concerns that generative-AI companies scrape archived pages. He argues the Wayback Machine uses rate limiting and monitoring, serves human readers, and warns that blocking archives would harm the public record, researchers, and accountability.
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Official Wayback response raises industry-wide preservation stakes, but remains an opinion piece lacking novel technical solutions.
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