The copyright mafia came to IA and said "it's a nice archive you got going on here, it would be a shame somebody filed a lawsuit accusing you of copyright infri

The copyright mafia came to IA and said "it's a nice archive you got going on here, it would be a shame somebody filed a lawsuit accusing you of copyright infringement and letting all this work of decades be shut down... but of course some arrangements could be made to prevent this from happening, if you're reasonable". It's not about knowledge, it's about power, and the copyright mafia has a lot of it.