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The most significant drain on the Internet Archive’s resources stems from a high-profile legal battle with major book publishers. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Archive launched the "National Emergency Library," temporarily suspending waitlists for its digitized books to help students and researchers locked out of physical libraries. parched internet archive

If infrastructure like roads and physical libraries deserve public funding, digital preservation infrastructure deserves the same institutional backing. Welcome to what the community calls a The

Between bruising legal battles and a new wave of digital gatekeeping, the well of open information is starting to run dry. If we don’t pay attention, we may wake up to a "Digital Dark Age" where the history of the last 30 years is simply... gone. 🏜️ A Library Under Siege Between bruising legal battles and a new wave

When the Internet Archive runs dry, society loses its most effective tool for accountability. The web is written in disappearing ink. Politicians change their public stances and scrub old blog posts. Corporations quietly alter privacy policies or delete evidence of past wrongdoing. News outlets go bankrupt, and decades of local journalism vanish overnight.