Tag: Internet Archive

The Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library known for its Wayback Machine, has started to recover from a cyberattack that knocked it offline last week. The website is now accessible in a “provisional, read-only manner,” according to founder Brewster Kahle. The attack, which occurred on October 9th, involved a data breach and a distributed denial-of-service…

The future of the Internet’s history could change as we know it after the Internet Archive, a nonprofit digital library website, lost a recent appeals case. Hachette v. Internet Archive pitted major book publishers in a battle over copyright infringement of the digitization of books. Yesterday, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld…

Non-profit digital library Internet Archive got slammed by a $400 million lawsuit from several leading record labels over its community effort to collect and protect archaic musical mediums. UMG Recordings, Capitol Records, Concord Bicycle Assets, CMGI Recorded Music Assets, Sony Music Entertainment, and Arista Music filed a civil action against the free online library for…