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Our first donor was Brewster Kahle. (https://blog.archive.org/2012/12/19/i-donated-bitcoins-to-the-internet-archive/)\nIn 2013, we started paying our staff in Bitcoin,  (https://blog.archive.org/2013/02/21/employees-to-be-paid-in-bitcoin-please-donate/)\ncreated the first Bitcoin ATM, (https://blog.archive.org/2013/03/05/bitcoin-to-cash-converter-box/)\nand convinced local businesses to accept it.  https://blog.archive.org/2013/04/03/how-the-internet-archive-is-having-great-time-with-bitcoin/\n\n\nIn 2015, at a SF Bitcoin Meetup in our headquarters, a technologist named Vitalik Buterin explained his new project called Ethereum. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21WcX57TFr8)  Buterin knew the Archive well, because he had written an article about us for Bitcoin Magazine in 2013. (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/internet-archive-paying-employees-in-bitcoin-asking-for-donations-1361516910)\n\n\nIn 2017, we started to accept automatic micropayments through the Brave Browser (https://blog.archive.org/2017/02/02/micropayments-to-archive-org-by-using-the-brave-browser/) and later from Coil.  From the beginning, the Internet Archive has embraced the dreamers and the builders of Web3, almost alone amongst our peers in the cultural/library non-profit world.\n\n\nOur leadership in the Web3 ecosystem started in 2015, when our founder, Brewster Kahle, took the stage of the Ford Foundation with a call to \u201cLock the Web Open\u201d by building a decentralized web. (https://blog.archive.org/2015/02/11/locking-the-web-open-a-call-for-a-distributed-web/)\nThat led to our convening the first ever Decentralized Web Summit in 2016, bringing together the early protocol builders of Ethereum, IPFS, ZCash, Stacks, HyperCore, WebTorrent, Coil, Matrix, and so many others. (https://2016.decentralizedweb.net/)\n\n\nIn 2018, the Internet Archive built a decentralized prototype of the Archive (https://dweb.archive.org/details/home) utilitizing IPFS, Gun, and WebTorrent. \n\n\nSince 2021, we\u2019ve begun storing video collections in Storj (https://www.storj.io/) and Web and film collections in Filecoin (insert appropriate URL) at scale, becoming one of the world\u2019s largest users of decentralized storage. We are currently experimenting with also mining and providing storage in the Filecoin network.\n\n\nAs an institution, our mission is \u201cUniversal Access to All Knowledge.\u201d We believe that mantra is attainable through the new technologies of Web 3, where we are not only users of Web3 technologies, but also builders, and above all, dreamers. But publishers wielding copyright laws written before the advent of computers threaten our long-term goal of preserving and providing access to humanity\u2019s greatest treasures. We need your support to defend ourselves and fight back. \n", "hidden": true, "question": "How does your project fit into the Community & Education round eligibility criteria? ", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": " In 2020, the Internet Archive was sued by four of the world's largest publishers: Hachette, HarperCollins, Wiley & Sons, and Penguin Random House, who claim that our book lending program violates their copyrights. In March 2023, a federal district court judge ruled against the Internet Archive and in favor of four corporate publishers. The Internet Archive will appeal.\nIn the Web3 world, the Internet Archive is forging aheads as both a contributor of materials to decentralized storage at scale, and as a provider of decentralized storage. We have launched a new initiative to bring government documents and data into open access and store them in decentralized storage nodes.", "hidden": false, "question": "If you've participated in past grant rounds, please share any new updates or milestones from the prior months", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "hidden": false, "question": "Anything else you'd like to share about your project, previous work, or other project affiliations? Anything you'd like to add that has not been covered?", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "hidden": true, "question": "Does 50% of your team reflect the diversity of the community your project serves with a particular emphasis on including women, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPoC), individuals with disabilities, and members of the LGBTQ+ community?", "questionId": 11, "encryptedAnswer": {"ciphertext": "SSCW2pqJBQG0oMxYc5P0+Iw473sV0OE/eheSEgtQL0E=", "encryptedSymmetricKey": "5d3a64626a03970b9e84c798c504d48865c4ddb41e5c193584e3973522feb230dc15df4cc7be1419d4c80ccb3684e5118287e06398e765b9835a847054033a1d84950c436c97187552d37d7505b4adb0f33738f5e021d72842b8d4764149f696a465f6fad1efee0f309422378f1884f1a82f461ed638988fe4df550d254991c500000000000000207f733963ce81a1e9dfeb8118f9d1cd9d6ca3a45db6d85631752b36de9d8e0cc6675cfc5916703b97aa4f7d2ba678a0a9"}}], "project": {"id": "1:0x03506eD3f57892C85DB20C36846e9c808aFe9ef4:512", "title": "Help Protect the Internet Archive", "logoImg": "bafkreif4ikfch2htkocgqx6wjoleu35smxj5sfh6s7ixrtdhc7fd4fqfhe", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreifcg7aihqpxdl5x54gh6o7gubhk6weypstyky47jsqkogu2jjqsqe", "protocol": "1"}, "website": "https://archive.org", "bannerImg": "bafkreifbzuv2gpeffoq7kuw5b5rprkwhufkas3vc2wmkn6puobq47dh4dm", "createdAt": 1681846394001, "userGithub": "", "credentials": {"github": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..lDq6Tz3DeCj9kDlFFpgNnEruEKvwfNs2zSXSYfGpCz6O0fgh3TvPwW3NfqvjoJ-D9ZC0v9ue6NDNXLGxm5gDCA", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2023-04-19T20:54:09.655Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2023-04-19T20:54:09.655Z", "expirationDate": "2023-07-18T20:54:09.655Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0xBc5fBa1FEf0ba69E401Cdf97197d75a5f9d9d4C6", "hash": "v0.0.0:JQfRIihBjBwArZHrQ/Q0AWYGuHeeT9I+NBPLsIhhFgU=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextGithubOrg#internetarchive#204986"}}, "twitter": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..Kqznn4eDEQYBNQjJd1AYqQ7q7QiiAjoIX_k-rp8yvYhy_uvK9d-iPZP5_slMhfd6ko6iktghQ_dZrNy0EVmMCQ", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2023-04-19T20:53:16.467Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2023-04-19T20:53:16.467Z", "expirationDate": "2023-07-18T20:53:16.467Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0xBc5fBa1FEf0ba69E401Cdf97197d75a5f9d9d4C6", "hash": "v0.0.0:b0aU1yuss1jKNeN+u/93PsSUppBHZdc10DSTv7WLUlc=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextTwitter#internetarchive"}}}, "description": "_UPDATE: In 2020, the Internet Archive was sued by four of the world's largest publishers: Hachette, HarperCollins, Wiley & Sons, and Penguin Random House, who claim that our book lending program violates their copyrights. In March 2023, a federal district court judge ruled against the Internet Archive and in favor of four corporate publishers. The Internet Archive will appeal._\n\n![Opposition Brief, Hachette v. Internet Archive](https://bafybeibrr6tr3ijgnbx4rsqoxn43isk2mg3hchg7rmqwnnclmglxgjirdi.ipfs.w3s.link/opposition-briefs1.png)\n\n### BACKGROUND:\nFor 26 years, the [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/) has served as the Internet\u2019s library, with our mission to provide \u201cuniversal access to all knowledge,\u201d free to all. You may know us best through the [Wayback Machine](https://web.archive.org/), our archive of the World Wide Web dating back to 1996. Or as a leader of the [Decentralized Web movement](https://decentralizedweb.net/). We are also the home to six million digitized books and have been lending them on a one-reader-at-a-time basis for nearly a decade. For many who cannot afford to buy books or reach a physical library, the Internet Archive is a lifeline. Case in point: in March 2020 when, COVID had shut down 90%+ of all the world\u2019s libraries and schools, the Internet Archive stepped up to create the National Emergency Library \u2013 an act of public service that author and historian Jill Lepore called a \u201cgift to readers everywhere.\u201d That\u2019s when [four of the world\u2019s largest publishers sued us](https://www.eff.org/cases/hachette-v-internet-archive), claiming our library violated their copyrights, despite the fact that we have never made any money from lending out books. \n\n![Quote from Claudia G.](https://bafybeidbnsmeffphwceacvqw2tzbc2zvcnkedz6wzt3b54tnvpeky63mgq.ipfs.w3s.link/Claudia.png)\n \nThe Internet Archive is being sued for doing what libraries have always done \u2013 lending books for free. Our digital book lending service is based on the widespread library practice called [Controlled Digital Lending](https://controlleddigitallending.org/), internationally recognized by libraries as reasonable and necessary. The publishers suing us and the media conglomerates who own them, including Rupert Murdoch\u2019s News Corp and Bertelsmann, want to cut off the public\u2019s access to knowledge, information and truth at a moment when our democratic society is faltering. . If they prevail, they will shut down hundreds if not thousands of other library lending programs engaging in CDL. \n\n![Quote from Punctum Books](https://bafybeia67v6bpicelg232klsqlbr2i7mowam3pvhaxdocrfttgkzp5gmpi.ipfs.w3s.link/punctum2.png)\n\nThis March, we lost the first round of  Hachette v Internet Archive. But we will continue to fight this lawsuit because it is about more than just the Internet Archive\u2019s future. It\u2019s about open access to knowledge via Web 3.  It\u2019s about the future of all libraries to survive and even flourish in the digital era. Publishers are trying to end libraries' ownership of their own collections. Instead, publishers want to rent digital books to libraries, like Netflix rents movies. They want to control our cultural commons for their own commercial benefit. \n \nRecently, Congressional leaders have launched an investigation into the unfair ebook practices of major publishers, including those who are suing us. And state legislatures have tried to step in to regulate the publishers, requiring them to license ebooks to libraries under \u201creasonable terms.\u201d The publishers sued to stop those state laws. In many ways, Hachette v. Internet Archive will determine whether or not libraries can do what we\u2019ve always done: buy, lend and preserve materials for the public. That\u2019s why our nonprofit library needs your support. \n\n![Quote from Brewster Kahle](https://bafybeicigckyvp6ljmxokqtikxuedj4ofwnmwm3xlv2x2g4s4za6lk6j7q.ipfs.w3s.link/brewster2.png)\n \nOf course, the Internet Archive does more than lend books. We invented and maintain the Wayback Machine, an archive of 804 billion web pages used by millions. After Aaron Swartz founded the open source project Open Library at the Internet Archive, we have carried out Aaron\u2019s vision to make all the published works of humankind available to everyone in the world. We are home to the Live Music Archive and vintage games and software. In order to store close to 100 petabytes of data, we maintain our own servers and back-ups. And since 2016, the Internet Archive has been a leader in the movement to build a better, decentralized web. \n \nYour donations make all of our work possible. And this year, your support will help to pay the millions of dollars in legal fees needed to fight for the clear-cut right to lend digitized books to those who need them.\n\n", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "internetarchive", "projectTwitter": "internetarchive"}, "recipient": "0x1dD8eC683E8b53c57bA5a01C5d2F866A3fbD3Ce8"}}