FBI subpoenas the web registrar behind Archive.is

The FBI is attempting to way down the individuality of the proprietor of Archive.today and its galore mirrors, similar Archive.is and Archive.ph. As reported by 404 Media, the FBI subpoena, which was posted connected the authoritative Archive.today X account, was sent to web domain registrar Tucows connected October 30th demanding the “customer oregon subscriber name, code of service, and billing address” associated with Archive.today. 

The subpoena besides requests telephone records, outgo information, net league info, web addresses, and adjacent the services the site’s proprietor has used, specified arsenic email oregon unreality computing services. It goes connected to accidental that this info “relates to a national transgression probe being conducted by the FBI,” but it doesn’t notation a circumstantial crime. 

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