Internet — Archive Pirates 2005

In June 2005, the first hit the Archive like a broadside cannon blast. Paramount Pictures demanded removal of Indiana Jones films. Universal targeted Jurassic Park . Warner Bros. went after The Matrix .

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Challenged the legality of archiving web pages under the DMCA. In June 2005, the first hit the Archive

“If we don’t mirror it, it dies. Simple as that. Call me a pirate if you want. I call myself a librarian with a slow connection and a grudge against entropy.” Warner Bros

📀 So here’s to the 2005 Internet Archive Pirates — the bandwidth-poor, storage-crunching, metadata-obsessed digital buccaneers who believed that knowledge wants to be free… and backed up on three different hard drives.

Internet Archive’s digital library has been found in breach of copyright. The decision has some important implications