Internet Archive
It’s Time to Archive the Internet Archive
Publishers are suing the Internet Archive for its emergency library, putting the whole project in danger.
Viacom Forced Internet Archive to Remove Hundreds of Hours of MTV Broadcasts
A copyright takedown request from MTV's parent company asked the Internet Archive to remove the collection of videos spanning from 1981 to 1991.
You Can Now Access 1.4 Million Books for Free Thanks to the Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is temporarily eliminating waitlists for tons of ebooks to create a National Emergency Library open to anyone with an internet connection.
Archivists Are Uploading Hundreds of Random VHS Tapes to the Internet
Two-hundred new 90s and early 2000s tapes hit the Internet Archive from the same group in just in the last two months.
Archivists Are Saving the History of Internet Piracy
The goal is to create a catalog of more than 5 terabytes of searchable, piracy-related metadata.
Libraries and Archivists Are Scanning and Uploading Books That Are Secretly in the Public Domain
Millions of books are secretly in the public domain thanks to a copyright loophole, a new project seeks to put them on the Internet Archive.
The Famous 'NESticle' Emulator’s Stolen Source Code Has Been Preserved
The release and preservation of the stolen source code to the iconic 90s NES emulator NESticle reflects a new chapter in a controversial saga with deep roots.
How to Download the Books That Just Entered the Public Domain
Public Domain Day was yesterday, but you were probably hungover, so here’s how to download the tens of thousands of books that became legal to download for free in 2019.
This 20-Year-Old Is Archiving Thousands of Flash Banner Ads From the Early 2000s
He's saved 4 gigabytes of ads so you can relive the old days of online casino and Lower My Bills ads.
The Internet Archive Fixes 9 Million Broken Links on Wikipedia
A heroic, knowledge-saving task involving two of the most important organizations on the internet.
70 Long-Lost Japanese Video Games Have Been Discovered in a 67GB Folder of ROMs on a Private Forum
They were found in a folder called "DO NOT UPLOAD."
The Internet Archive Can't Preserve the Web's History by Itself
The Joy Reid saga highlights the strengths and weaknesses of web archiving.