Internet Archive’s legal woes mount as record labels sue for $400M::The Internet Archive also reached a confidential settlement with book publishers.
Worthless leeches. Preservation of media is so important, otherwise so much of our history will be lost to these greedy corporations.
Write your reps folks! I wrote my senators and congressional rep; if enough reps hear about this and realize how important the internet archive is they can help (even having a senator/representative getting in the middle with the threat of changes to the law to protect the internet archive could result in a much more favorable outcome).
What the Archive did may as well be illegal, but the fact that the record labels did not even bother to send them a Cease & desist letter, instead suing directly for 400$M, tells you everything you need to know about the record industry
Indeed. You can do so here.
You should not trust that I am not a scammer. You can get there yourself without using my shortcut from the archive.org homepage.
Edited due to my late night incompetence (thanks for the headsup @ominouslemon@lemm.ee).
Yo, those links point to archive.is, which has nothing to do with the Internet Archive (archive.org).
FFS, I’m so sorry. I am easily confused.
Both worth supporting, of course.
These record labels are scum, and their lawyers are scum for attempting this.
Record labels going after this is so classless. Are they going to sue libraries for loaning out cs’s?
