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Archive access monitoring

Create a service that tracks and alerts when important web archives become restricted.

Why now

Growing restrictions on historical web data create demand for monitoring.

Who for
Researchers and archivists
Business model
Institutional subscriptions
Effort
A few weeks

Researchers and journalists rely on web archives but struggle to know when access changes.

Build a watchdog service that tracks access policies across major archives and alerts subscribers to changes.

Sell subscriptions to institutions preserving digital history.

Start by monitoring just a few key archives with simple change detection.

The risk is potential legal challenges from archive operators.

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