Anna’s Archive loses .org domain, says suspension likely unrelated to Spotify piracy

Anna’s Archive launched in 2022 in response to the US Department of Justice seizure of domains used by e-book pirate site ...

Shadow library search engine Anna’s Archive goes down

The shadow library search engine and catalogue Anna’s Archive has gone down, as users discovered that they could no longer ...

Making more of the BBC’s Written Archive available

Earlier this year, we shared a new ambition for the written archive. We want to make around 50% of the archive is open for research within the next five years. This means more material will be ...
KQED

What Happens if the Internet Archive Goes Dark?

For decades, the Internet Archive has preserved our digital history. Lately, journalists and ordinary citizens have been turning to it more than ever, as the Trump administration undertakes an ...
Forbes

Internet Archive Outage Reported In Multiple Countries [Update: It’s Back]

Update, 11:58 p.m. ET: The Internet Archive’s Brewster Kahle wrote a short blog post about what happened. The website was getting tens of thousands of requests per second from someone using AWS, ...
Wired

The Internet Archive Loses Its Appeal of a Major Copyright Case

Hachette v. Internet Archive was brought by book publishers objecting to the archive’s digital lending library. Notably, the appeals court’s ruling rejects the Internet Archive’s argument that its ...
NPR

'Archive Of Our Own' Fanfiction Website Is Up For A Hugo Award

The fanfiction website Archive of Our Own — where people post stories about their favorite movies, books and TV shows — is up for a Hugo Award, one of the highest awards in sci-fi and fantasy. And now ...
Time

Internet Archive Loses Lawsuit Over E-Book Copyright Infringement. Here’s What to Know

A federal judge sided in favor of the four leading publishers in the U.S. who sued the Internet Archive for scanning and lending out numerous digital copies of copyrighted books for free during the ...
ZDNet

The Internet Archive is finally mostly back online after a series of cyberattacks

The Internet Archive has finally recovered from a devastating series of cyberattacks last month with all its main sites and services back up and running. Only a few ancillary features are still down, ...
Bleeping Computer

Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens

The Internet Archive was breached again, this time on their Zendesk email support platform after repeated warnings that threat actors stole exposed GitLab authentication tokens. Since last night, ...
ZDNet

Internet Archive breach compromises 31 million accounts - what you need to know

The Internet Archive has been hit by a cyberattack that has taken the site down and impacted 31 million accounts. Late Wednesday, Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle revealed that a DDoS ...