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Internet Archive's big battle with music publishers ends in settlement

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335 points coloneltcb | 3 comments | 15 Sep 25 22:34 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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ayaros ◴[19 Sep 25 15:29 UTC] No.45302728[source]▶
I guess things could be worse? The Internet Archive is too precious of a resource for humanity to lose. I still fear its days are numbered. I don't think non-technical people appreciate it, or are even aware of its existence, in the same way as Wikipedia.
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sixothree ◴[19 Sep 25 23:00 UTC] No.45307789[source]▶
When things like this happen, I think about how during WW1 people talked about the possibility of "bombing a country back to the stone age". Destroy enough libraries, have enough people abandon their areas of specialty employment into different fields, and given enough time, you can erase a society's institutional knowledge and capability.

If we lose enough key resources like the Internet Archive we could definitely shifting the pendulum in that direction.

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1. petralithic ◴[20 Sep 25 03:44 UTC] No.45310148[source]▶
The siege of Baghdad and the House of Wisdom by the Mongols arguably still affects us today.
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2. andirk ◴[20 Sep 25 04:41 UTC] No.45310446[source]▶
And the entire "Dark Ages"?
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3. petralithic ◴[20 Sep 25 15:47 UTC] No.45314353[source]▶
Dark Ages, maybe not as much since Europe recovered during the Renaissance, but the Middle East hasn't necessarily been too stable since the Islamic Golden Age.