The FBI is subpoenaing the web logger behind Archive.is

The FBI is trying to track down the identity of the owner of Archive.today and its several mirrors, such as Archive.is and Archive.ph. As reported 404 mediaan FBI subpoena, which was It was published on the official Archive.today X accountto web domain registrar Tucows on October 30 requesting “customer or subscriber name, service address, and billing address” associated with Archive.today.

The subpoena also requests phone records, payment information, Internet session information, network addresses, and even services the site owner used, such as email or cloud computing services. It goes on to say that this information “relates to a federal criminal investigation conducted by the FBI,” but does not refer to a specific crime.

Archive.today has been around since 2012, but the identity of the site’s owner remains uncertain. Someone using the common Russian name, or perhaps a pseudonym, “Denis Petrov” from Prague, Czech Republic, registered the site’s original domain, but Little is known About who this person is. The site is commonly used to evade paywalls, similar to 12ft.io, which was created by the News/Media Alliance. It was downloaded successfully Earlier this year, it allegedly “offered an illegal circumvention technique” to access copyrighted content without paying for it.