Fuck the gatekeepers of culture. Pay your artists a living wage and then you might have some moral ground to stand on. Most of those artists died in poverty as a result of these same companies paying them pennies on the dollar. Now those companies want to strangle their artists' legacy so they can squeeze the last bits of profit out of their work. This is nothing but vampire capitalism doing its ghoulish best to suck the life and joy out of our collective cultural history.

The lawsuit said the recordings are all available on authorized streaming services and "face no danger of being lost, forgotten, or destroyed."

Sigh. Once again, it looks like the Internet Archive has gone beyond simply being an archive and has stuck its foot into the legal woodchipper.

If they survive these lawsuits I hope they learn a serious lesson from all this. It's great that they save and preserve data like this, but they should stop poking the bear. Only make the abandoned stuff easy to download. If something's currently commercially available then you can leave it up to the pirates to make it "free."

go fuck yourself big labels, what a drag....