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Internet Archive is in danger (www.battleforlibraries.com)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Moorshou@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
 

It looks like the internet archive is needed assistance, I just heard about this today and figured lemmy could help spread this message around

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[–] refalo@programming.dev 9 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Surely not or else companies would be doing this every day to avoid litigation.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The mercenary company Blackgate(?) has done it a dozen times.

[–] nifty@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Again, I have no idea what I am talking about but you can have provisions to protect assets in bankruptcy. But besides that, I am not sure if distributing the assets to another nonprofit entity prior would help save the archived data

https://www.wolterskluwer.com/en/expert-insights/dissolving-a-nonprofit-when-and-how-to-dissolve-a-nonprofit

[–] recklessengagement@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I mean, companies with a lot of employees, sure. But companies that are mostly just data, like movie watching sites, do it all the time