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Newsrooms should not block the Internet Archive. Any public service publisher should not block the Internet Archive. If anything, we should all be directly supporting the Internet Archive.

I am annoyed that it keeps getting brought up as an “AI scraping” issue when it’s clearly a greedy paywall thing

It’s really not. It’s motivated by AI scraping from the folks I’ve spoken with

Spoke with my newspaper publisher wife. She maintains it’s also a business move - papers are looking for any revenue generation, and being paid for your archives is part of that. Dallas Morning News doing this in 2017 was a big change AI may be accelerating this, but it’s not the only reason