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Internet Archive is engaging in redistribution with flagrant disregard for the law, so it is not an archive despite what it says on the tin.

Note that preservation and redistribution are two very different things, there are very specific limitations to redistributing something you don't have explicit licensing or permissions for.

Further reading: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/108

>flagrant disregard for the law

The law should be disregarded. Its stupid.