Thanks for the detailed response, very informative. This sounds similar to DMCA takedown requests, though I’m not knowledgable enough to know the distinction. I

Thanks for the detailed response, very informative. This sounds similar to DMCA takedown requests, though I’m not knowledgable enough to know the distinction. It’s a shame that to view hidden archives one needs to visit the archive in person, but I guess if IA were to respond to email requests for such archives they would be guilty of breaking the same distribution rule. The major difference between the rare books or museum examples and content on IA is that the digital artifacts are infinitely reproducible and transportable so the physical visit required to view them seems totally unnecessary on its face. It’s a shame that to be able to run an above-board _Internet_ Archive one needs to bend to the whim of anachronistic copyright law and forego all the benefits of the internet in the first place. This seems like it would inevitably mean that any _internet_ archive that is truly accessible over the _internet_ would be forced to operate illegally in a similar manner to SciHub. I know I hold a rather strong opinion regarding copyright law (I’m not looking to debate it here as I know others hold different opinions which is totally fine), but IMHO copyright law has been a major blight on humanity at large and especially the internet. Major reform is in order at the very least, if not total abolishment.