90% of their cash flow comes from google to be the default search engine - they are probably trying to open up alternative routes of funding to reduce the risk, since it's not guaranteed that the money will keep coming due to the current lawsuit.
a_wild_mimic_appears
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if the courts decide that scraping is illegal, IA can close up shop.
Do you think that would rescue the IA from the type of people who made the IA already pull 300k books?
But it would also mean that the Internet Archive is illegal, even tho they don't profit, but if scraping the internet is a copyright violation, then they are as guilty as Anthropic.
yeah that might work, but what will happen to all the data they store currently?