“Information wants to be free” – but at what cost? The Internet Archive [1] was founded in 1996 as a non-profit digital library, aiming to provide “universal access to all knowledge”. It started with ...

Academic libraries are fighting off swarms of data-scraping bots — that are slowing or crashing sites meant for students, ...

A Dutch court has ordered Internet provider KPN to block shadow libraries Z-Library and OceanofPDF. The dynamic blocking ...

Following a security incident, AO3, the world's largest fanfiction platform, has been offline for days. Fans are reacting ...

Just uncalled-for.

People often say the internet never forgets. In reality, websites disappear, media companies erase decades of online content, and now a fight over artificial intelligence threatens one of the tools ...

Archive of Our Own is down, and will be for two to four weeks. A modern day burning of the Library of Alexandria. I’m having ...

CHICAGO, Illinois — Sometime in the 18th century, the Enlightenment settled a contentious, centuries-old question: Where does ...

When does fandom enthusiasm become entitlement? Fanfiction readers and writers debate.

On November 4, 2026, Mitsubishi Corporation raised its net profit forecast for the fiscal year ending March 2027 from 1.1 ...

Muscle Plus is a unique free photo library featuring professionally trained bodybuilders in bizarre, everyday scenarios.

None ...