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A targeted hack on the Internet Archive has threatened billions of archived web pages and a comprehensive digital history of the globe. The website remained offline on Friday after its founder ...
The San Francisco-based Internet Archive now has federal depository status, joining a network of over 1,100 libraries that archive government documents and make them accessible to the public — even as ...
Internet Archive — the no-cost, nonprofit digital library that has become embroiled in the nationwide battle over copyrights and free speech — is now an official source for government documents. SEE ...
Reddit is now blocking the Internet Archive (IA) from indexing popular Reddit threads after allegedly catching sneaky AI firms—restricted from scraping Reddit—instead simply scraping data from IA's ...
Update on 10/20/24 added to the bottom of this article. Internet Archive's "The Wayback Machine" has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication ...
Update, 11:58 p.m. ET: The Internet Archive’s Brewster Kahle wrote a short blog post about what happened. The website was getting tens of thousands of requests per second from someone using AWS, ...
The Internet Archive can now only crawl Reddit's homepage. Reddit's goal is to block AI firms from scraping Reddit user data. Publishers (and others) are suing AI companies for copyright infringement.
Major record labels are suing the Internet Archive, accusing the nonprofit of "massive" and "blatant" copyright infringement "of works by some of the greatest artists of the Twentieth Century." The ...