Museum of Pocket Calculating Devices
Summary
This Nieman Lab piece reports that more than 340 local news outlets are limiting the Internet Archive's access to their journalism by blocking crawlers due to AI scraping concerns. It catalogs which publishers are restricting access, documents a rise in blocked sites from 241 to 382, and discusses the broader implications for archival access, licensing, and attribution in the era of AI. The article also notes industry responses and initiatives aimed at helping newsrooms preserve content while balancing data usage and AI training needs.