> The crucial context here is that archive.today provides a useful public service for free.

So public services should DDoS is your argument?

> Jani Patokallio runs gyrovague.net in order to harass people who provide useful public services.

I scrolled pretty far through the blog and didn't find anything of that sort. Just a bunch of travel stuff. Now I'm curious what sort of "harassment" you hallucinated in the sites that were previously targeted by archive.today's DDoS attacks.