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The British Library says its UK Web Archive platform is back online following a 2023 disruption, though it remains a work in progress. Search access is currently limited to websites archived before December 2022, and full URLs must be entered to view archived pages, which are otherwise viewable mainly within Legal Deposit Library reading rooms.
A web archivist recounts discovering that teapuppies.com, a fansite for the Ochaken anime and toy line that had been online unchanged since 2005, had vanished and its domain was repurposed to serve online gambling ads. The author, who works professionally in web archiving, admits they never archived the site themselves despite having the tools, and uses the loss as the basis for a guide teaching readers how to back up webpages using standard formats like WARC.
Spain's Second Section of the Intellectual Property Commission, part of the Ministry of Culture, has ordered internet providers to block access to Archive.today and several of its mirror domains. Users attempting to visit the site are redirected to a government notice labeling it an illegal website that facilitates unauthorized access to copyrighted content, and warning that continuing to try to access it constitutes participation in criminal activity.