The Internet Archive needs your help.

[TheCondor]

https://blog.archive.org/2025/04/17/take-action-defend-the-internet-archive/

The Internet Archive needs your help.

A coalition of major record labels has filed a lawsuit against the Internet Archive—demanding $700 million for our work preserving and providing access to historical 78rpm records. These fragile, obsolete discs hold some of the earliest recordings of a vanishing American culture. But this lawsuit goes far beyond old records. It’s an attack on the Internet Archive itself.

This lawsuit is an existential threat to the Internet Archive and everything we preserve—including the Wayback Machine, a cornerstone of memory and preservation on the internet.

At a time when digital information is disappearing, being rewritten, or erased entirely, the tools to preserve history must be defended—not dismantled.

This isn’t just about music. It’s about whether future generations will have access to knowledge, history, and culture.

**[Sign the open letter](’

https://www.change.org/p/defend-the-internet-archive’

) and tell the record labels to drop their lawsuit. **

[kaniamutan14]

Good guys always facing difficulty

[sanjeevram]

Have signed the petition

[TheNawab]

Signed and shared! <3

[evilsmirker]

Will share this- Meta and all these AI companies get away with their copyright thievery, but these corps target the Internet Archive? Man, that’s a shame.