Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet Archive—the world’s largest digital library—has preserved newspapers since it went online in the mid-1990s....
The NYT doesn’t seem to dislike the Internet Achive specifically. They just want to protect their content from AI scrapers.
I’m not sure what the solution is, but I know any legislation that would address it likely won’t be around until one or both sites go under.
They could whitelist the archivers or contribute directly.