200 Journalists Applaud the Internet Archive's Role in Preserving Public Record

The internet archive is doing god's work. It's up there with Wikipedia as a resource. Copyright needs a massive overhaul, especially with the written word, and post death. No one should inherit copyright or ownership on the owners death.

I'm not a journalist, but I "sign" here on HN with my upvote and a comment.

Apparently this is also the only way to recover a youtube playlist if you accidentally click delete instead of edit.

at least after spending a half hour researching how to recover one - everyone says find the url, go to the internet archive and hope.

Youtube has terrible ux for edit playlist (one desktop anyway)

Luckliy I had a google takeout from not too long ago, and I have been using the YT music much less, so the loss was not as devastating.

The Internet Archive could block (or add a nag wall) all IP addresses from the NY Times to give the journalist and workers there how it feels to be blocked. I guess that would be against IA’s mission “Universal Access To All Knowledge”

> This letter is coming at a time where many major media outlets are questioning whether to allow the Wayback Machine to continue to preserve journalism.

Questioning whether to allow? Hmm. I didn't know media outlets we're judge and jury...

What a pity that some major news publishers have taken to blocking the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.