[germandiago]

First thing that came to my mind went along the same reasoning.

[zeta0134]

The second thing that came to mind was paywall evasion. Any time a news article behind a paywall gets posted here, someone in the comments has the archive link ready to go, because of course they do.

The incentives for online news are really wacky just to begin with. A coin at the convenience store for the whole dang paper used to be the simplest thing in the world.

[saint_fiasco]

I suppose that could be solved with a delay. Limit internet archive for articles that are less than a week old.

[thayne]

If the content was fully paywalled, it wouldn't be possible to archive it (unless the archiver paid for a subscription).

The reason the archiving works is because they expose the content publicly so search engines can index it.

[tchalla]

> Any time a news article behind a paywall gets posted here, someone in the comments has the archive link ready to go, because of course they do.

I have no idea why this behavior is even acceptable.