The Internet Archive losing its appeal means one thing: pirate stuff. Pirate brazenly. There’s no point trying to do it the nice way - you’ll get shut down anyway. Copy, share, and archive to your heart’s content. It’s the only way we’re keeping digital media and our cultural memory intact.
@hailey "copyright" thing is only worth for bigcorps.
Remember a time before google IPO, when "do no evil" was at least spelled out by them, they had the "google books" initiative - that was also shutdown, becoming just an useless index, DESPITE having all the books digitized.