DPReview - the end

[jschoonj]

I just saw an anti-robot protection on this site for the FIRST TIME EVER! DPReview never had an anti-robot proofing protection!

You understand what that means? They do not want ANYONE to save a copy of this site. Clearly a full copy can only made by robots, which are now banned here. So they deliberately want to destroy everything here.

I winder why? Why they are THAT eager to destroy our knowledge base? Why noy let anyone who wants it to keep it safe? Why such barbaric decisions?
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Gallery http://www.alphatraveller.org/gallery/
Blog (Russian lang) http://www.alphatraveller.org

Yeah, site is doing weird stuff for me as well. I wonder if it’s just the spike in traffic?

 

[jschoonj]

I just saw an anti-robot protection on this site for the FIRST TIME EVER! DPReview never had an anti-robot proofing protection!

You understand what that means? They do not want ANYONE to save a copy of this site. Clearly a full copy can only made by robots, which are now banned here. So they deliberately want to destroy everything here.

I winder why? Why they are THAT eager to destroy our knowledge base? Why noy let anyone who wants it to keep it safe? Why such barbaric decisions?
--
Gallery http://www.alphatraveller.org/gallery/
Blog (Russian lang) http://www.alphatraveller.org

Yeah, site is doing weird stuff for me as well. I wonder if it’s just the spike in traffic?

 

[RichardCass]

While we should collectively figure out a place to land and to rebuild, I also want to emphasize that it actually should be criminal to simply shut down a site such as this without provisions for even read-only access going into the future.

This is a huge catalogue of the development of digital image making. It is history. It is our history. It should minimally be maintained as an accessible archive!

It's hard to argue against that.

 

[Charles Hull]

Archive Team is attempting a complete backup of DPReview.

 

[pdk42]

I just saw an anti-robot protection on this site for the FIRST TIME EVER! DPReview never had an anti-robot proofing protection!

You understand what that means? They do not want ANYONE to save a copy of this site. Clearly a full copy can only made by robots, which are now banned here. So they deliberately want to destroy everything here.

I winder why? Why they are THAT eager to destroy our knowledge base? Why noy let anyone who wants it to keep it safe? Why such barbaric decisions?
--
Gallery http://www.alphatraveller.org/gallery/
Blog (Russian lang) http://www.alphatraveller.org

Yeah, site is doing weird stuff for me as well. I wonder if it’s just the spike in traffic?

But like you say could also be this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/photography/comments/11ya4fa/dpreview_is_being_archived_by_the_archive_team

Will the anti-robot measures prevent them?

 

[jschoonj]

I just saw an anti-robot protection on this site for the FIRST TIME EVER! DPReview never had an anti-robot proofing protection!

You understand what that means? They do not want ANYONE to save a copy of this site. Clearly a full copy can only made by robots, which are now banned here. So they deliberately want to destroy everything here.

I winder why? Why they are THAT eager to destroy our knowledge base? Why noy let anyone who wants it to keep it safe? Why such barbaric decisions?
--
Gallery http://www.alphatraveller.org/gallery/
Blog (Russian lang) http://www.alphatraveller.org

Yeah, site is doing weird stuff for me as well. I wonder if it’s just the spike in traffic?

But like you say could also be this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/photography/comments/11ya4fa/dpreview_is_being_archived_by_the_archive_team

Will the anti-robot measures prevent them?

 

[Pete_W]

I just saw an anti-robot protection on this site for the FIRST TIME EVER! DPReview never had an anti-robot proofing protection!

You understand what that means? They do not want ANYONE to save a copy of this site. Clearly a full copy can only made by robots, which are now banned here. So they deliberately want to destroy everything here.

I winder why? Why they are THAT eager to destroy our knowledge base? Why noy let anyone who wants it to keep it safe? Why such barbaric decisions?

Most likely this is just a hard-nosed business approach to eliminate risk from any future potential claim.

It seems stupid but if the content is completely gone, no-one can make a claim of having relied up the information for some purchase and suffered a loss.

 

[PaulSnowcat]

Well, they always can just roll out a disclaimer telling that they are NOT responsible for this site contents, as it usually done and viola - all potential legal claims are nullified.

I guess there was a conflict with DPreview stuff and they are just having a stupid plain revenge on them now...

 

[kmodp]

One of the worst news for photographers at the beginning of the year.
Thank you for all your hard work and good luck for the future.

 

[yayatosorus]

A forum user has created a petition against the closing of DPReview (different that the one already posted in a previous thread). If possible, please sign it or share it around.

Help make some noise. Created by @themediocreenthusiast

LINKS:

https://chng.it/72ZmCFMWBh

https://www.change.org/p/stop-amazon-from-closing-dpreview-com?source_location=search