You remember the headlines. In 2023, major publishers sued the Archive over its Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) program—specifically the “Emergency Library” launched during the COVID-19 lockdowns. The court ruled against the Archive, forcing it to remove over 500,000 books from circulation.
The Internet Archive is not a nostalgic curiosity. It is the only safety net against digital amnesia. And that net is fraying. parched internet archive
Because we got thirsty, and we forgot to share the water. You remember the headlines
For the last eighteen months, the Internet Archive has been fighting a war on three fronts: legal, financial, and technical. The result is a slow, public dehydration of one of the web’s last true public goods. You remember the headlines. In 2023
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