The ban is the result of a court petition to stop file-sharing websites from distributing pirated copies of recently released Bollywood movies.

The Internet Archive offers permanent storage of and free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, music, moving images, and over 2 million public-domain books.

Google has partnered with The Internet Archive, a non-profit research library that, in part, stores and preserves massive portions of the web to be easily referenced later.

The Internet Archive and its 916 billion saved web pages are back online Wayback Machine back in read-only mode after DDoS, may need further maintenance.