Because the Wayback Machine starts from scratch each time?
I don’t think that’s it...it’s not a technical thing. Deleting all archives must be a courtesy they extend to anyone that specifically denies access to Wayback Machine in their robots.txt. Does anyone know if this is documented? If so, why didn’t her lawyers just carry out the robots.txt technique and not even bother contacting them? Most importantly, why would they have such a policy? This is all very odd.
Do we know that the archive was deleted or merely taken offline? The blog post says "excluded" which to me imply that they still have the data, it's just not publicly available.
I hang around in emulation circles and there's been some talk in the past few weeks because some Nintendo ROM archives had been taken offline from archive.org but people soon figured out that they could still access them by tinkering with the URL. The situation is a bit different here though.
I don’t think that’s it...it’s not a technical thing. Deleting all archives must be a courtesy they extend to anyone that specifically denies access to Wayback Machine in their robots.txt. Does anyone know if this is documented? If so, why didn’t her lawyers just carry out the robots.txt technique and not even bother contacting them? Most importantly, why would they have such a policy? This is all very odd.