People are warned that what they post on the internet will live forever. But that’s not really the case. This year the Internet Archive turns 25. It’s best known for its pioneering role in archiving ...

Hachette v. Internet Archive was brought by book publishers objecting to the archive’s digital lending library. Notably, the appeals court’s ruling rejects the Internet Archive’s argument that its ...

A targeted hack on the Internet Archive has threatened billions of archived web pages and a comprehensive digital history of the globe. The website remained offline on Friday after its founder ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Lars Daniel covers digital evidence and forensics in life and law. At the end of this article, you will find explanations of the ...

The web is decentralized and fluid by design, but all that chaos and ephemerality can make it difficult to keep a site up and online without interruption. That's what has made the Internet Archive's ...

The Internet Archive’s online lending library recently suffered a big defeat in court. The organization is best known for operating the Wayback Machine, which stores old versions of web pages, a task ...

When MySpace announced that it had "accidentally" (and there are question marks around that) lost 12 years of content last month, former users were devastated to learn that many of their audio files - ...

The San Francisco-based Internet Archive now has federal depository status, joining a network of over 1,100 libraries that archive government documents and make them accessible to the public — even as ...

The Internet Archive has finally recovered from a devastating series of cyberattacks last month with all its main sites and services back up and running. Only a few ancillary features are still down, ...

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 ...

The Internet Archive Breach: Over 31 Million User Accounts Exposed Your email has been sent Attackers got hold of a 6.4 GB file containing the email addresses and ...

A federal judge sided in favor of the four leading publishers in the U.S. who sued the Internet Archive for scanning and lending out numerous digital copies of copyrighted books for free during the ...