Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast The End of Libraries as We Know Them? with Brewster Kahle and Kyle Courtney
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Jul 2, 2024 
Digital librarian Brewster Kahle and lawyer Kyle Courtney discuss the lawsuit between megapublishers and the Internet Archive, potential changes to libraries with e-books, information as a public good, and the consequences if publishers win.
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Web Archives Stop Digital Erasure
- The Internet Archive preserves web pages and cultural records that otherwise vanish when sites or publishers remove them.
- Brewster Kahle built the Wayback Machine to rescue ephemeral internet content and keep it available to the public.
Publishers Challenge Digital Lending
- Publishers sued the Internet Archive claiming digitized lending equals willful digital piracy.
- A district court found the Archive's controlled digital lending unlikely to be fair use, threatening library digital lending.
Personal Blog Rediscovered In The Wayback
- Chris Hayes found his old hand-coded blog preserved on the Wayback Machine years later.
- The archive also captured MTV News pages and many vanished newspapers worldwide.