“When people want to listen to music they go to Spotify. When people want to study sound recordings as they were originally created, they go to libraries like the Internet Archive. Both are needed. There shouldn’t be conflict here.” - @brewsterkahle

Read our full statement about the recording industry lawsuit against our library: https://blog.archive.org/2023/08/14/internet-archive-responds-to-recording-industry-lawsuit-targeting-obsolete-media/

@internetarchive @brewsterkahle Complete nonsense from record-label lawyers. I’m not a lawyer (!), but from reading about music industry lawsuits in the past: ”monetary harm” (briefly put) seems (?) to be what the court is interested in. Usually you see pirating of big piles of music from the latest and greatest artists being the target and courts can respond in different ways to that. In this case, there is only one ”sound” response: nonsense.