An anonymous reader shares a report: If you've ever researched anything online, you've probably used the Internet Archive (IA). The IA, founded in 1996 by librarian and engineer Brewster Kahle, describes itself as "a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, an...

Internet Archive (Archive.org) being sued by copyrightists.

  • wwiehtnioj [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Losing the Internet Archive will be a terrible event but bit torrent will live on.

    Centralization is amazing for efficiency, decentralization for resiliency. One day we will find the right balance. Future archive projects need to incorporate some form of federation, it won't solve everything but we will learn a lot by moving in that direction.