Anna’s Archive loses .org domain, says suspension likely unrelated to Spotify piracy

Anna’s Archive launched in 2022 in response to the US Department of Justice seizure of domains used by e-book pirate site ...

Shadow library search engine Anna’s Archive goes down

The shadow library search engine and catalogue Anna’s Archive has gone down, as users discovered that they could no longer ...
Soap Central

Who is Anna’s Archive? All we know about pirate activist group behind 300 TB Spotify music library heist

Spotify was recently hacked by the pirate activist group known as Anna's Archive, with 300TB of its music library being taken ...
Digital Music News on MSN

Spotify ‘shadow library’ loses .org address—ripped archive still live

Anna’s Archive’s .org domain has been suspended, but operators say it’s likely unrelated to their Spotify “shadow library,” ...
PC Gamer

'The world became stupider' when Internet Archive's Open Library was hit by a lawsuit: 'We survived, but it wiped out the library'

Internet Archive, a non-profit library dedicated to archived websites, music, books, apps, and all kinds of information on the internet, has been subjected to multiple lawsuits since its foundation in ...
Noozhawk

Santa Barbara Mission Archive-Library Opens Its ‘Treasure Chest’ to Public

Father Jack Clark Robinson, the director of the Santa Barbara Mission Archive-Library, with collections manager Andrew Walsh in the Mission Gallery. Credit: Julia McHugh / Noozhawk photo Father Jack ...
The New York Times

The Dream Was Universal Access to Knowledge. The Result Was a Fiasco.

In the pandemic emergency, Brewster Kahle’s Internet Archive freely lent out digital scans of its library. Publishers sued. Owning a book means something different now. By David Streitfeld David ...
Los Angeles Daily News

Los Angeles Public Library acquires new archive highlighting L.A.’s queer, Latinx history

The Los Angeles Public Library has acquired the “Lydia R. Otero Archive,” consisting of photographs, articles, personal items and more belonging to non-binary Latinx activist and author Lydia Otero.
Catholic News Agency

Pope Francis moves part of Vatican library and archive to Rome seminary

Pope Francis has called for the expansion of the Vatican library and archives to a building outside Vatican City to make more “available this precious patrimony.” In a letter dated Oct. 29 and issued ...
The Verge

The Internet Archive has ended its ‘emergency library’ early

The move follows a copyright lawsuit from several large publishers The move follows a copyright lawsuit from several large publishers The Emergency Library is part of the Open Libraries initiative, in ...
Slate

Could the Internet Archive Go Out Like Napster?

Two and a half years ago, the Internet Archive made a decision that pissed off a lot of writers—and embroiled it in a lawsuit that many netizens fear could weaken the archive, its finances, and its ...

NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts

Holdings from the library at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which includes unique documents from the early 20th century to ...