Publishers are blocking the Internet Archive for fear AI scrapers can use it as a workaround

The Internet Archive has often been a valuable resource for journalists, from it's finding records of deleted tweets or ...
Nieman Journalism Lab

News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns

Outlets like The Guardian and The New York Times are scrutinizing digital archives as potential backdoors for AI crawlers.
American Songwriter

Anna’s Archive Faces Eye-Popping $13 Trillion Legal Battle With Spotify and Top Record Labels

Spotify and the three major record labels are taking legal action against Anna’s Archive in a staggering $13 trillion lawsuit.

Spotify won court order against Anna’s Archive, taking down .org domain

When shadow library Anna’s Archive lost its .org domain in early January, the controversial site’s operator said the suspension didn’t appear to have anything to do with its recent mass scraping of ...
Music Business Worldwide

Record labels, Spotify sue pirate group Anna’s Archive over scraping and ‘brazen theft’ of millions of tracks

Pirate group accused of ‘brazen theft of millions of files containing nearly all of the world’s commercial sound ...

Anna’s Archive claims it “never dealt with Nvidia directly”

Shadow library search engine Anna’s Archive posted on Wednesday (January 21, 2026) that it had no direct dealings with Nvidia ...
MediaNama

Multiple Anna’s Archive Domains Blocked Globally

A US court ordered Cloudflare and other service providers to block Anna’s Archive following Spotify’s lawsuit over ...