Spain’s Ministry of Culture, through the Second Section of the Intellectual Property Commission, ordered ISPs to block several domains and mirrors of Archive.today, a web-archiving service. Most users in Spain who try to reach those domains are redirected to a government page declaring the sites illegal and saying that visiting them facilitates access to content protected by intellectual property rights; the redirect also warns visitors that they are contributing to criminal activity and putting their data and devices at risk. The blocking was implemented administratively after a complaint using an expedited censorship protocol, with no court ruling required.
The action specifically names the commission’s Second Section and cites facilitation of access to copyrighted content as the legal basis, effectively cutting off domestic access to an archiving tool and its mirrors. Framing ordinary visitors as complicit and attaching security warnings to the block highlights how copyright enforcement is being used to suppress access to archived web content. The key details are the targeted service (Archive.today), the issuing body (Intellectual Property Commission, Second Section), the grounds (copyright facilitation), and the procedural method (administrative, rapid blocking without judicial oversight), a combination that sets a precedent for swift, non‑judicial restrictions on online preservation services.
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