...I understand the ‘coming clean and admit how many cases were affected’ part of this. But how does blocking the Wayback Machine negatively affect students or researchers? If someone DID get incorrect information from Justia (and don’t forget that in the overwhelming number of these changes, a working citation still remained), how would searching cases on the Wayback Machine help them now?...
are you serious?
“are you serious?”
Absolutely. Under what circumstances would a person say ‘I wrote a research paper in 2008 and relied on Justia, and now I find out that Justia’s information might have been corrupted. So I need the Wayback Machine to look at what Justia pages used to look like.’ The best response to that situation would be to turn to another source to check the references.