The Internet Archive is the world's largest independent body of archived digital content. Records of human history, stories, songs, news broadcasts, games, and all kinds of media that would otherwise be lost to time are stored in the Archive, yet that may not last forever with what's coming for them.

Major record labels have filed a $700,000,000 lawsuit against the Internet Archive for archiving historical music records that the labels themselves failed to properly preserve and make available to the public. Book publishers already sued the Archive for making books available when public libraries weren't physically open during Covid, which was the only reason many students were able to access the books required for their classes.

If you've ever used the Wayback Machine to view an snapshot of a website, or ever seen any journalist talk about using archives of a site that was since taken down, then you and the news you read relies on the Internet Archive.

We can't allow major corporations to shut down the world's largest online repository for human knowledge that's made available to the public, just because their misguided views on copyright and intellectual property lead them to believe that they are the arbiters of who gets to access the collective works of the human race.

This is the digital equivalent of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.

Please, defend the Archive.

If you're unable to donate, or want to do more, you can sign their petition below.

https://www.change.org/p/defend-the-internet-archive

And if you'd like to watch a preview of an upcoming small film about the Internet Archive, I highly recommend you check it out here:

https://vimeo.com/1056104575/df4b0f66c1