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I love what the archive team does. I used their VM when the posterous backup effort was happening last year, and today I sent a link to my friend's now defunct posterous blog.

But I know that the owner of days posterous page had no intent on keeping the page a going concern, and was happy to see it disposed of. In light of the recent Google "right to be forgotten" ruling, will there come a day when the right to be forgotten will extend to archive.org?

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>will there come a day when the right to be forgotten will extend to archive.org?

Sites can at any time opt out of being archived via a robots.txt exclusion (IA still keep their previous archives privately). However for public blogging sites operated by a third-party that's another matter.

The right to be forgotten is way different than a robots.txt file...

The "right to be forgotten" ruling was new because it talked about _linking to_ stuff. But Archive Team and the Internet Archive both make actual copies, so they are covered by copyright. If your friend want his Posterous posts gone he can serve an DMCA notice on them.

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