News publishers are worried about AI scraping. But as Brewster Kahle writes in the Atlantic today, blocking the Wayback Machine leaves holes in the public record, and takes away evidence journalists themselves need to hold the powerful accountable. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/10/blocking-internet-archive-will-not-stop-ai/689065/
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As we said in March, blocking the @internetarchive is like newspapers telling physical libraries they’re no longer allowed to collect past issues. Whatever happens in AI-copyright disputes, publishers shouldn’t make libraries collateral damage.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/blocking-internet-archive-wont-stop-ai-it-will-erase-webs-historical-record
Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record
Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet Archive—the world’s largest digital library—has preserved newspapers since it went online in the mid-1990s....
www.eff.org@eff @internetarchive The library is *why* they exist.
Publishers exist to enrich the information ecosystem for all humanity. If they don't like that job description, they can go out of business and nothing of value will be lost.