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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/the-internet-archive-survived-major-copyright-losses-whats-next/>
"Last month, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine archived its trillionth
webpage, and the nonprofit invited its more than 1,200 library partners and
800,000 daily users to join a celebration of the moment. To honor “three
decades of safeguarding the world’s online heritage,” the city of San Francisco
declared October 22 to be “Internet Archive Day.” The Archive was also recently
designated a federal depository library by Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), who
proclaimed the organization a “perfect fit” to expand “access to federal
government publications amid an increasingly digital landscape.”
The Internet Archive might sound like a thriving organization, but it only
recently emerged from years of bruising copyright battles that threatened to
bankrupt the beloved library project. In the end, the fight led to more than
500,000 books being removed from the Archive’s “Open Library.”
“We survived,” Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle told
Ars. “But it
wiped out the Library.”
An Internet Archive spokesperson confirmed to
Ars that the archive currently
faces no major lawsuits and no active threats to its collections. Kahle thinks
“the world became stupider” when the Open Library was gutted—but he’s moving
forward with new ideas."
Via Violet Blue’s
Threat Model - Cybersecurity: November 4, 2025
https://www.patreon.com/posts/cybersecurity-4-142780203
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
