The Internet Archive Endangered

The Internet Archive Endangered

From the Wayback Machine to the mass-digitization of the history of Aruba, the Internet Archive is a non-profit doing valuable work. But some of its other projects—a pandemic-era lending library and the ongoing digitalization of 78 rpm records—have led to lawsuits now threatening the future of this repository of the past.


Guest: Kate Knibbs, senior writer at Wired.


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