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The Internet Archive needs your help, seriously (blog.archive.org)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by nekothegamer@sh.itjust.works to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Yet again the Internet Archiving is suffering big this time, a coalition of major record labels filed a lawsuit against the Internet Archive demanding $700 million for the extensive catalog of 78 rpm records. 78s are sometimes more than a century old at this point and i bet a lot of them are out of copyright, but i suppose for the few that still are majors are hitting it big towards the IA

This lawsuit is pretty much another existential threat to the Internet Archive and everything it preserves, including the Wayback Machine, and we're fucked if we ever lose access to the Wayback Machine.

the original article asked to sign a petition, but i think a more logical way to support is to donate them directly so that they have more money to better defend themselves in court in this and other cases they'll undoubtedly face in the future

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[-] MonkeyBrawler@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago

Do you use the archive? If not, it's likely you'll want that storage space for something else eventually. Have you priced out a NAS? $20 gives you a clean conscience, $1500 gives you a cool torch that you'll have to pass if called upon, would you take that action?