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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[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 73 points 1 month ago (32 children)

IA, on the other hand, are pretentious pirates.

Homie, the IA is an archive. Their first and foremost aim is to make culture and knowledge available to the masses. You should read the blog entry. It's not like they're distributing the latest Marvel slop.

[+] khorovodoved@lemm.ee -51 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (21 children)

The law is a law. Their aims do not override it. They are getting what any sane person would expect. Nothing prevented them from separating their legal and shady operations to separate entities. That, at least, would prevent compromising the whole operation. If someone puts his head in a lion mouth, it is still his fault, at least partially, that lion kills him.

It's not like they're distributing the latest Marvel slop.

I doubt this argument will hold in court.

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's acting like a library. When the current laws and political systems would prevent libraries being invented now, it's a sign that the laws are bullshit. Not that libraries are wrong.

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