Redundancy in a variety of organizations & technical regimes best ensures durability against all risks. So the IA's efforts here should be encouraged, and those of every other project able to take on similar duties.
And if vaguely implying that the IA is inadequate, please at least hint at potential alternatives who are or could be doing the necessary work instead. Note that anyone concerned about IA's longevity can and should leverage IA's groundwork – such as by mirroring its collections elsewhere, as is fairly straightforward either via explicit coordination or even dark/uncoordinated scraping.
Having said that, the spotlight on the IA does give opportunity to raise the profile of web archiving and digital preservation generally; we just need to be careful not to invest everything in any one initiative - as the parent comment fairly points out.
Any chance you could point me to some other initiatives? I'm always interested in finding more repositories of information.
https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Web_archiving_initiat...
International Internet Preservation Consortium is an active body linking many of them.
There are various resources giving information on tools etc, eg.
https://github.com/iipc/awesome-web-archiving
https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox/wiki/Web-Archiving-Comm...
For this particular use case, Perma.cc has significant institutional backing.
https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2020/6/23/21293875/internet...
"it only asks for a halt to the practice of copying books for loan in the Open Library itself, not the entire IA"
"the lawsuit takes pains to clarify that the publishers aren’t trying to shut down the rest of the Internet Archive"
"the lawsuit seeks financial damages only for the sharing of 127 books under copyright"
"the most the Internet Archive would have to pay would be $19 million — essentially equivalent to one year of operating revenue, according to IA tax documents. That’s a huge setback, but for the IA, a tech nonprofit that relies heavily on grants and public donations, it’s not the major death blow it might seem to be."