The last post before the archive stopped scraping was from a user named (edgy, I know). They wrote:
That conversation—two strangers trying to share a laugh about a paper company—is now a fossil in a digital tar pit. The Internet Archive is currently under legal attack. Publishers want to kill the "National Emergency Library." Bots are scraping the site to train AI models without permission. The Archive is bleeding money and bandwidth. internet archive the office
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April 14, 2026
