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Originally Posted by Cyberman tM
A word of warning: the data in the web archive might be forever, but the access isn't.
If the (new) owner of the domain decides that no one should have access to the (perhaps unrelated!) website on the domain, then web archive will take this to mean the archived content should not be accessible either.
IOW: access to web.archive only as long as the live(!) robots.txt allows it.
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For what it matters, in the years since this was post the Wayback Machine has changed their policy. Lots of domain squatters blocking access to previous versions of sites.
But it's still contingent on the website having been archived to begin with.