Website seizure banner archive

Internet takedown evidence

Website seizure banner archive

A searchable, self-hosted visual archive of government website-seizure notices, normalized from seized.fyi with every image and video preserved under an OpenSpy SHA-256 filename.

Scope


Browse preserved seizure banners

Search by operation, domain, upstream hash, year, media type, or linked-reporting availability. Selecting a result opens its internal OpenSpy archive record; the self-hosted original and seized.fyi upstream entry remain linked separately.


Preserved dataset snapshot

This content-addressed JSON maps every upstream banner to its affected domains, observed date, reporting links, resolution, corrected media type, R2 path, byte size, and full SHA-256. The original media objects are stored separately so the catalog stays searchable instead of embedding hundreds of binary files into one page.


Included

  • Every banner listed in the seized.fyi machine-readable snapshot.
  • Original-resolution seizure images, animated banners, and videos, stored under content-derived SHA-256 filenames.
  • Observed date, dimensions, media type, affected-domain list, upstream record, and linked reporting URLs.
  • Detection and correction of upstream filename or MIME mismatches without modifying the underlying media bytes.

Not mirrored

  • Malware, exploit code, credential dumps, marketplace listings, and content from the seized services.
  • Fabricated pre-seizure screenshots or invented operation and agency labels.
  • A claim that the upstream domain list is exhaustive; seized.fyi explicitly warns that lists can be incomplete.

Publication rules

  1. A seizure banner documents the state observed by the upstream archive; it does not independently prove every allegation displayed on the page.
  2. Domain lists are reproduced as archival metadata and may be incomplete, as stated by seized.fyi.
  3. OpenSpy does not fabricate a pre-seizure screenshot when no independently replayable public capture has been preserved.
  4. The mirrored objects are seizure notices and documentary screenshots or videos, not malware, exploit payloads, or seized-site content.

Sources

  1. About seized.fyi seized.fyi Upstream archive methodology and scope · accessed 2026-07-26
  2. seized.fyi banner database seized.fyi Upstream machine-readable dataset · accessed 2026-07-26