If you review the history of the archive you will see that their mission changed over time. They didn't even ask for donations until they set the building on fi

If you review the history of the archive you will see that their mission changed over time. They didn't even ask for donations until they set the building on fire. You can still find old help articles on the site where qualified researchers are instructed to ask permission to log into their Unix servers directly. Complete with privacy rationalizations like "being able to see what people are doing on the same computer is no different than peeking over a shoulder in a reading room." Early form 990s tell a very different mission. They pivoted for a number of reasons, and I generally support the mission. But you have to obey the law to protect the assets. And if you want to press the law, you have to be very smart about it. Like, oh, testing 10 records instead of 400,000. And doing it under a different LLC so you don't lose the Wayback Machine to some dumbass AI company because you can't be bothered to keep track of how many books you're lending out. > Do you have a link to them losing an exemption because of paperwork? https://www.arl.org/news/librarian-of-congress-expands-dmca-exemption-for-text-and-data-mining/ https://www.arl.org/news/librarian-of-congress-expands-dmca-... "The librarian renewed all existing exemptions except for the exemption for accessible access to video games, for which there was no petition for renewal."