Unfortunately, the Internet Archive is probably going away at some point soon. The problem is that they're mass violaters of the law.
It isn't about books (though their case where they lent out more books than they physically had during covid didn't help), it's about stuff like copyrighted movies, ROM packs including every rom for entire consoles, copyrighted music, and the like. They try to go "but we're a library", but libraries have to follow rules too.
Libraries end up following certain rules, and perhaps internet archive thought they could get away with it because they saw Google getting away with it on YouTube, but as much as people complain about dmca takedowns or ContentID, they're the reason that site can host so much -- the content owners consent and get paid. Something like a file with every Wii game ever made isn't going to even be licensable like that -- dozens of publishers would need consent to give up content that's incredibly new. On YouTube, such a file would be immediately taken down just as full length movies are often taken down.
It isn't about books (though their case where they lent out more books than they physically had during covid didn't help), it's about stuff like copyrighted movies, ROM packs including every rom for entire consoles, copyrighted music, and the like. They try to go "but we're a library", but libraries have to follow rules too.
Libraries end up following certain rules, and perhaps internet archive thought they could get away with it because they saw Google getting away with it on YouTube, but as much as people complain about dmca takedowns or ContentID, they're the reason that site can host so much -- the content owners consent and get paid. Something like a file with every Wii game ever made isn't going to even be licensable like that -- dozens of publishers would need consent to give up content that's incredibly new. On YouTube, such a file would be immediately taken down just as full length movies are often taken down.
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