Another major trigger for takedowns is the rise of platforms like Patreon and Gumroad. Creators often leak their own "premium" content to imageboards for publicity, or have it leaked by others. If that content ends up archived on AoS, it directly conflicts with a creator's business model. Consequently, automated bots and manual DMCA agents are scouring archives to scrub paywalled content.
The internet, however, abhors a vacuum. While Archive of Sins complies with DMCA requests to keep their servers online, the nature of the internet means the content often resurfaces elsewhere—on decentralized networks, alternative archives, or private hard drives. archiveofsins dmca
