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Perhaps you only care about the wayback machine, but there's more to the Internet Archive than that, and they shouldn't be expected to roll over and take it whenever some awful company decides to do a bit of digital book burning.
The linked article is specifically asking what impacts me. I am responding by explaining what impacts me.
Yes, IA has more than just the Wayback Machine. I'm not sure what your point is though. All of that is threatened by these lawsuits. Maybe if preserving that data is important IA should focus on preserving that data. Giving out unlimited copies to everyone is an unrelated secondary goal to preserving archives, so if a big company with a strong legal case comes along and says "stop giving out unlimited copies or we'll destroy you" then maybe stop giving out unlimited copies.
That's not "digital book burning." The opposite, in fact. It's acting to preserve digital books.
They don't care about your story of how losing their library of books doesn't impact you. I'm not sure why that wasn't obvious to you.
They asked:
There's no asterisk on that specifying "only answers that favor our lawsuit are desired."