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I have a related question on the domain archive.org

I've noticed that this domain now host content subject to copyright.

As a example : entire season of startrek "voyager" are randomly hosted there in direct download.

Why? Is that not a liability?

Internet Archive is a library. Libraries host copyrighted content. Libraries are good.

Libraries license the content they host. Internet Archive didn't. And nearly got sued out of existence because of it.

They've always had tons of copyrighted material on there. People report it, sometimes they take it down. Sometimes they pick fights and lose.

“We survived,” Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle told Ars. “But it wiped out the Library.” https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/the-internet-arc...