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)}