Access to Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine Blocked in India

[sumitroy]

http://archive.org/ works?

Doesn't for me, throughs an error: 404 Not Found

yes its working look at the above image uploaded now
I also clicked your link and it opens fine
its

http://web.archive.org

and your link http://archive.org is diffent url however I clicked that link and it automatically opening https

https://archive.org

 

[DJBhaiJaan]

The website is/was blocked after an order from the Madras High Court and not based on a Government dictat. The order was given after production houses of Lipstick Under My Burkha (Prakash Raj) and Jab Harry Met Sejal (Red Chillies) went to court against piracy websites. The list contains the names of many other websites as well.

Truth about why the Wayback Machine or Internet Archive was blocked in India

 

[sumitroy]

A government agency emailed the BBC copies of the court orders involved.

They list 2,650 websites that a judge ordered internet providers to block. Most are file-sharing services, but the Internet Archive is also included.

The San Francisco-based non-profit is best known for its Wayback Machine - an online tool that allows the public to see old versions of websites. It contains more than 302 billion saved web pages.

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