Anna's Archive, a shadow library search engine, recently scraped Spotify to create a pirate archive containing 86 million songs and metadata for 256 million tracks.

In case you didn’t hear — on October 22, 2025, the Internet Archive, who host the Wayback Machine at archive.org, celebrated a milestone: one trillion web pages archived, for posterity. Founded in ...

Can you chip in? As an independent nonprofit, the Internet Archive is fighting for universal access to quality information. We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, ...

Just blocks from the Presidio of San Francisco, the national park at the base of the Golden Gate Bridge, stands a gleaming white building, its façade adorned with eight striking gothic columns. But ...

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 ...

Last month, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine archived its trillionth webpage, and the nonprofit invited its more than 1,200 library partners and 800,000 daily users to join a celebration of the ...

Uh-oh, Internet! A new report from Nieman Lab (via Gizmodo) reveals that there was a steep decline in snapshots collected by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine beginning in May of this year. Of ...

If you’re on the hunt for a rare, out-of-print title by a Black author, Solange Knowles has got your back. On Thursday, September 25, the 39-year-old singer and multidisciplinary artist announced she ...

It could soon be harder for students to access the internet on school buses and for the public to borrow mobile internet hotspots from libraries. In a Sept. 23 letter, a coalition of school and ...

At 180 Maiden Lane, high above Manhattan’s Financial District in New York City, sits Library180, a nonprofit reference library founded by Nikki Igol, an image researcher and archivist, and Steven ...

Several major record labels and rights holders have settled their $621 million copyright infringement suit against the Internet Archive over its efforts to digitize, preserve, and share 78 rpm records ...

Sept 15 (Reuters) - (This September 15 story has been corrected to clarify that 78-rpm records are not vinyl, in the headline and paragraph 1.) Sign up here. The labels and the Internet Archive said ...