WhatA platform that brokers automated archival-licensing agreements between publishers and digital archives, enabling time-delayed public access (e.g., 30-day embargo) with rate limits and revenue sharing.
SignalMajor publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine via robots.txt not because they oppose archival in principle but because no one has built a structured negotiation layer — the Internet Archive hasn't done outreach and publishers haven't been offered a workable middle ground.
Why NowThe simultaneous blocking by NYT, Atlantic, and USA Today signals a coordinated industry shift, while the Internet Archive's legal losses to publishers have created an urgent need for a legitimate licensing intermediary.
MarketPublishers (thousands globally) pay for compliance infrastructure; archives and libraries pay for access rights. TAM overlaps with the $5B+ digital rights management market. No one currently brokers archive-specific licensing.
MoatNetwork effects — once you become the standard intermediary that both publishers and archives trust, each new publisher agreement makes the platform more valuable to archives and vice versa, creating a two-sided lock-in.
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