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Wayback Machine Used To Retrieve News Articles In Court Case

Learn how the Wayback Machine is used in court cases to access archived news articles for evidence.

Top News · May 3, 2024

Open Internet, web scraping, and AI: the unbreakable link

With existing technological capabilities, open access to publicly available web data is the only way to improve the quality of AI outputs.

TechRadar · Apr 23, 2024

From digital archive into dust: Google bids a farewell to cached web pages, with users mourning the historic feature

Google announces end of cached pages, and points to improved web reliability. However, users lament the loss of a valuable resource and the end of an era.

TechRadar · Feb 7, 2024

In the Internet Archive Lawsuit, a Win for Publishers May Come at a Cost for Readers Everywhere

The US court’s decision means that digital lending has become a pressing question for libraries and readers

The Walrus · Apr 26, 2023

Internet Archive is getting sued - have we learned nothing from history?

The Internet Archive is hailed as a revolution in knowledge-sharing and preservation by some, and nothing but well-funded piracy by others.

TechRadar · Apr 8, 2023

Editorial: Public proceedings, private profit: The Donald Trump court transcripts must be freely available to all

Voila: Tuesday night, posted on the website of ABC News, there was the full 32-page transcript from Donald Trump’s arraignment, allowing the world to read precisely what transpired in the most closely watched hearing of the decade. And then, poof, it disappeared the next day, the casualty of an asinine…

Tribune News Service · Apr 8, 2023

Internet Archive Loses Lawsuit Over National Emergency Library, Will Appeal

Plus: "Sensitivity readers" rewrite Agatha Christie, a Little Free Library battle, and more...

Reason · Mar 27, 2023

A judge sided with publishers in a lawsuit over the Internet Archive's online library

The nonprofit, which has a mission to provide "universal access to all knowledge," says it will appeal the ruling.

WEKU · Mar 26, 2023