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Hacker News front pageCindy Harper2 min readintermediate

Spain Orders Blocks on Archive.today and Its Mirrors

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Summary

Spain’s Intellectual Property Commission ordered ISPs to block Archive.today and its mirrors, redirecting users to a government warning page. The block was triggered by an administrative complaint from an unnamed rights holder and follows a 2021 protocol for rapid takedown of mirror sites. No technical details or engineering analysis are provided.

  • The block is an administrative decision, not a court ruling, and applies to all Archive.today domains (archive.is, archive.ph, archive.li).
  • Spain’s 2021 protocol obliges ISPs to block mirror sites within 24 hours of notice from a Technical Committee.
  • The affected domains are not listed on the Ministry of Culture’s public blocklist, indicating possible gaps in transparency.

For engineers building web‑archiving tools, content‑preservation services, or any platform that may be subject to takedown requests, this illustrates how non‑judicial, policy‑driven blocks can abruptly disrupt service availability across an entire country.

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