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 11 points 8 hours ago (1 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.

[–] khorovodoved@lemm.ee -4 points 6 hours ago

I agree that the laws are bad. However, they are still laws. Breaking them has consequences.