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Happily, #Paramount's attempt to take down its own #MTV archive was unsuccessful. Most of it had already been captured by the @internetarchive's #WaybackMachine.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/mtv-news-saved-internet-archive-1235051776/
(#paywalled)

Bravo to the #InternetArchive.

Here's more on Paramount's attempt to take the archive offline.
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/mtv-news-website-archives-pulled-offline-1236047163/

#Libraries #Preservation


MTV News Website Saved by Internet Archive After Being Pulled

The Internet Archive has created a searchable index of the old MTV News website, after it was unexpectedly pulled down last week.
Jon Blistein (Rolling Stone)
#libraries #internetarchive #paramount #mtv #paywalled #preservation #waybackmachine @internetarchive
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in reply to petersuber

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It's weird to frame this as a defeat for Paramount. Their goal wasn't "take it down", their goal was "no longer be financially or legally responsible for it". So Paramount still won. Someone else is now footing the bill for both.
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