Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens

A genuine question to commenters asking to "put a grownup in charge of the thing" and saying that "Kahle shouldn't be running things": he built the thing, why exactly he can't run it the way he sees fit?

He is. But at the cost of the greater good.

Most of us care mainly about the Wayback Machine and archiving webpages; not borrowing books still under copyright and fighting publishers.

Speak for yourself, the internet archive successfully increased its scope and made creative contributions to case law (although it lost at the appeals court)

A good place to direct that question might be in a reply to the person who made that comment.

> the greater good

(Hot Fuzz reference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQzrR6nOkYg )

Internet Archive certainly made creative arguments, all of which were soundly rejected under Summary Judgment. This had the opposite effect on the future we both want.

Under discovery in the case, it turned out that Internet Archive didn't keep accurate records of what they loaned out either. Another example of sloppy engineering that directly impacts their core mission.

The fate of the organization now rests on the outcome of other lawsuits. In one, Internet Archive argues that they are allowed to digitize and publish Frank Sinatra records because the pops and crackles on them makes it Fair Use.

If they did all this cleanly under a different LLC, I'd sit back and enjoy the show. But they didn't.

He can run it the way he sees, but the way he sees is intentionally self-defeating; Instead of prioritizing keeping the archive as viable and complete as possible, he favors an all-or-nothing approach where either the Archive has accumulated and made obsolete all other knowledge bases in the world, or the Archive has been destroyed utterly by external threats. He would rather be burned to death as the last curator of the library at Alexandria than try to save anything.