Fbi Subpoenas The Web Registrar Behind Archive.is

The FBI is attempting to way down nan personality of nan proprietor of Archive.today and its galore mirrors, for illustration Archive.is and Archive.ph. As reported by 404 Media, nan FBI subpoena, which was posted connected nan charismatic Archive.today X account, was sent to web domain registrar Tucows connected October 30th demanding nan “customer aliases subscriber name, reside of service, and billing address” associated pinch Archive.today. 

The lawsuit besides requests telephone records, costs information, net convention info, web addresses, and moreover nan services nan site’s proprietor has used, specified arsenic email aliases unreality computing services. It goes connected to opportunity that this info “relates to a national criminal investigation being conducted by nan FBI,” but it doesn’t reference a circumstantial crime. 

Archive.today has been astir since 2012, but nan personality of nan site’s proprietor remains unconfirmed. Someone who goes by nan communal Russian name, aliases perchance pseudonym, “Denis Petrov” from Prague, Czech Republic registered nan original domain of nan site, but little other is known astir who that personification is. The tract is commonly utilized to dodge paywalls, akin to 12ft.io, which nan News/Media Alliance successfully had taken down earlier this year, claiming it “offered forbidden circumvention technology” to entree copyrighted contented without paying for it.