People are warned that what they post on the internet will live forever. But that’s not really the case. This year the Internet Archive turns 25. It’s best known for its pioneering role in archiving ...

The Internet Archive has updated its Wayback Machine with a significant bump in coverage: the service has gone from 150,000,000,000 URLs to having 240,000,000,000 URLs, a total of about 5 petabytes of ...

A compilation of PW's coverage of Hachette v. Internet Archive, the closely watched copyright case over the scanning and lending of print library books, with the most ...

The most important nonprofit cataloging the internet lost a copyright case earlier this fall. The Internet Archive, best known for the Wayback Machine — a digital repository of billions of webpages ...

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